NOTES AND COMMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 3938, 21 February 1920, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Nominations for all events to he decided at the Rangitikei Racing Club's annual fixture next month, close with the Secretary at 9 o'clock to-night.

Kilbovne. svho holds the Australasian record of 1.10 for six fiii'lony-. Mould not nice within six seconds ot that- tune on his present form.

A meeting bet.ween Amythas and Gloaming svould create a lot of interest- The three-year-old won the Hnz-h-tt Memorial at Dtim-din in a common ranter, and even then cut out mile- in 1.40 1-5 and winning by threeli'tiirths. Amvthii.s may met (Jloamimr in one* of the autumn classics.

IL J. Ma-eon considered that Karo, svith 9.8. did not have- a ghost of a eb nice of sviiuiiug the Waiiguiiui Cup. and withdrew the daughter oi Demosthenes and Kautukit. Speaking fo a re-prt'sentaiive of this paper at Wanv.aniu during the sveek. Mason lueiitiotieti that- Gloaming had developed a sntmt as n result, of a knock, and conseoiielitlv the ehaiiipirui svutild not be se-'U out for some time.

Up to the conclusion of the Christmas meetings Sir George Clifford's horses for the season bad earned place money on thirty occasions. 'The record includes seventeen winners. "The baronet should be well up in the: list of sviiuiiug owners this season.

!•* E. Jones, at one time first hoi soman lor Sir Geo. Clifford, has a large t.-atn of irotte-Ts in work at Timaru. Jones has had a lot of luck at both branches of racing.

A grievance* svas brought to a southei ii writer's knowledge in connection with trainine: svork at Jfici.irton. It appears that certain boys attend the traik regularly and do practically all the ridine. but vii the actual race day they are turned down for a carpelbagger, who is probably no better horseman, and "is certiuily not in the same condition as tho regular worker. 'Trainers complain that they cannot net. the horsemen to ride svork. but what can they exiicct svhen they give such treatment to the boy who is doin-' his behst? Rossini and Royal Stag, the respectise winners of the C.J .C. and Great Noitbern Derbies, svere extremely fortunate in not having Amythas as an oiiponeiit, and the absence of the son of Demosthenes svhen the Derbies svere under discussion once again furnishes an illustration of the luck of" the anno. Amvthas is engaged in the St. l>*ger to be run aj Eller-he atEaster time. Slowcoach niav turn out a scry useful competitor oser hurdles. IP- iva.s fiiii'hing on we'll in second place- at Te Kuiti, A northern writer considers that had McCarteu delayed First Salute's run a little while longer, jt is ju-,t possible that the brilliance oi that effort svould hiivo lauded him homo first.

It is a noteworthy fact that iieuictia invariably goes, out to contest. a race; labelled an outsider by ihe totalisator. 'Time alter linn- the daughter of Count Wit to has returned hor'i" supporters limit prices, but she is invariably neglected ou the machine in lier next start. At Oauiaru on the first day she was neglected, but did not happen to score ; but on the second day Tremeiia won the Buckley Mile and ranked as tho absolute outsider. She came out in the last race and although beaten oui of ;i place started eighth favourite in a field ot ten. The feat registered by Aiuvthas ; n winning the Dunedin Cup with an impost 1-ilb in excess ot weight-I'or-age can be depended upon to bring about, some discussion as to previous noteworthy perlormances registered in handicaps over v distance by three-sear-olds in the Dominion. lv this connection Advance's dual victories at Ellerslio in the autumn of iINKJ, when the son of Vanguard won the Easter Handicap tinder 9.G (121b wver sveight- ] fur-ago) and the Autumn Handicap j under 1.0.5 (2911. over weight-for-ago), base alsvavs been rated very highly I Noiiette's victors - in ihe ARC. Handicap of 1903 under 9.4 ( IMb ~s-,-r weight-tor-age) and his svin in (he Easter Handicap under U.ll (101b over weight-for-uge) are both svell entitled to be entered svith notesvorthy deeds of tho three-year-old division.