NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 February 1928, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The autumn meeting of the Dunnevii ke ,Racing Chib takes place on .Wednesday and Thursday of this. week. The acceptances are much above the average of these days, but no doubt last week’® racing at Woodville will have found out weak spots in infirm horse®, so scratching® are sure to be heavy. The imported Aston is affected with wind trouble and may never get- furthei that, six furlongs, blit his double win at Woodville suggests bis being useful over short courses.

One often hear®* the remark that weight does not matter when a horse is well. This of course is absurd, for as .they «ny “weight will stop an engine.” At Woodville Crown Area was in a cl as® by himself, yet at the weights allotted, the moderate Miss Pat beat him nicely. As, Lady Gay and Red Fuchsia both showed good form at Woodville last Week, they should provide a capital contest in the High Weight Handicap at Dannevirke to-morrow. Red Fuchsia may show most improvement. At the recent Wanganui meeting. War Wings showed some pace over tjie early part of races, so, opposed by a moderate class lot in the Maiden Plate at the Dannevirke meeting. War Wings should race well. Arrow Lad is a reliable little fellow, and based on his form at Woodville last, Friday may prove very hard to beat in. flic President’s Handicap at the Dannevirke meeting. Even with nine stone. Discourse wiil be ;v lot of trouble to, the opposition if a runner for the Tahoraite Hack at Dannevirke. If a starter, L. Morris will ride Discourse.

The class of hacks engaged in the. Qringi Handicap at Dannevirke' are poor. Mar,siird. Lady Cynthia and Silver Tray appear the best. The racing Tresbam had last week should be of much benefit, and he may show to advantage in the Rlakaiatai Handicap to-morrow. The ijlweH, if started, is sure to give him plenty of trouble. If anything like well, Grand National should be strongly supported for the Makirikiri Hack at Dannevirke tomorrow, as the opposition is lamentably weak. , Paganelli appears to dodge the punters in.money ways; frequently be is whispered about as a certainty for an

event, only to he withdrawn at the last hour. While it was given out- that P'agauelli would nob run at T© Aro-ha last Saturday, he did, and lie won too. Jn the early spring and even up till and including the summer meeting oi the Auckland Racing Chib, Pegaway showed his good form oi fast season, but of late the gelding has ran very badly. Possibly he may do better at Easter. - Aiusketoon, the well preformed Eng-lish-bred horse, who is now trained i»» the Thames district appears amongst those nominated for the Olii.nemuri meeting. Aiusketoon has not raced for eighteen months, and as lie is getting on in years may never regain his'best again. Trainer T. F. Quinlivan bad Treshani looking like his best last week, and even if.the gelding finds the seven furlong course too short to-morrow, he should run well at the Napier Park meeting later. The old saying “horses for courses’’ again manifested its truth at AVoodvillo on Friday. Last December David Garrick von the. chief event on the second day o,l ; the club’s meeting, but although lie raced much since then lie •did not again win until last week. IJounauee was nut a runher at AVootlville, so evidently is not himself, and it would not be wise to pin one’s .faith to him for the Dannevirke Cup, unless possessed with stable iido.riiiati.on. Oratri.x ran a line ra.ee at Woodville and can be depended on to porlorm well in the Dannevirke Pup to-morrow, but Cohesion, who was unlucky last week, may prove too good for Oratrix. Of late, quite a number of our principal handicaps have fallen to horses well,on in years—horses that even in their younger days had 1 difficulty ir winning. One must come to the conclusion that in the main out horses are not up to the standard of many former years. Possibly the tact of the money market being hard is a contributing factor, as if reduces greatly the number of owners and incidentally the number of horses in training.