NOTES AND COMMENTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 April 1928, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(.By Maecenas.) ii a runner m me, Jiura.e events at viitJl XJLiUVVivt*' £. A>U-y .*_» *.UOiiKUi. bIIWU*U aoUirllj aviUC Ui tuO ili’vJilCy . v.uuiiia snowed -gu-oJ lorm an one U'ei.u'iing meeung, an jßcister, ana Uo«u oiuy at-proauOe sculie IUS niuSLiligS no-uui , lUll oa.-nru.ay no give nne opposiiUou a lon.oi ootlier. Aitnouyn ne did non gpt on tiie winning ust an nue, Ja«fc -via.am,no. meeumg, cue two-year-oid cjesto ,snowed a ion o* pace, and even on naan lorai in win Ik surprising ii uie"ctoos> non race v,ei-y proliiiiieiicny an itnis wieii'tj ri aw Re's x>ay uieening. l>ii ner form in the Great Autumn Handicap an Biocarton. an Easter, in union even; sue ran second to xlynanna, Eady Hesmond phouia command le-sp-eet m tne nwKe's eay tup ,co-mor-row, as die racing suu3 Had an one (Ranter oury meeting womd tend to mane ner a nt mare.

'X'aiiu T'aniu, who figures, in the Poukawa Hack an tne Hawke’s Bay meeting, in capable of mustering up a kit ox pace over a short oouase, ana althougn nne field is likely to oe large, nis. banUancy isno-uld assure- llaku damn a good position in nne eary stages or the race,. Hu-ikai ran an excellent race am the rpcenn Manawatu meeting, and if a runner in the. Autumn Handicap at Hastings to-aay, should merit .a lot of support. Vesper us is another in the same event, alio is now at his beet. h irst Acre has boon -a long time .snowing his best form, but raced wall enougiii in his only start at the Marlboro ugii meeting, to bring iris prospects at Hawke’iS Bay before us. If lie smarts in the Borough Handicap to-day, First Acre will certainly run well. Looking remarkably wall, Limerick arrived back in the Dominion last Tuesday. All Australian authorities now agree that the son of Limond is one of, if not the greatest, performers that has graced the Australian turf. In riding six firsts and seven seconds •out of thirteen mounts at the recent meeting of the 'Marlborough Racing Club, K. Reed registered a great performance. Of course, tihe small fields in most of the events were a factor that helped the rider to put up such a good record.

Singlespear, who put up a track record when in Australia, was the medium of heavy support for the concluding event at the recent mepting held at T'rentham. He ran a close third, and may have: wont but for the fact that he drew an inside position, and prior io the start took much out of himself by ‘playing up.” hast season Elea gave indications of running out a middle distance, but this year she has failed over even six furlongs, and five furlongs is quite far enough for her. At Tlnenthnm on Monday last she stripped very bright, and in the race was always one of the first three, but she was stopping visibly at the end of the “five.” The crack “chaser” Beau Oavaler, is due to race in the hurdle races at Te Rapa on Saturday and Monday next. These outings should be helpful in bring, ing this great jumper to something like racing condition, ere the more important cross-country events come around. In comparison to Jus standard as a steeplechaser, Beau Cavalier is a very moderate performer over the small jumps. For the Maiden Stakes of £IOO, _to bo decided at tine Waikato Racing Club’s meeting on Saturday next, 58 noiryinations, at £1 each were received, while 3S of these horses were accepted for also at £l. Thus owners have contributed no less than £9O of the £IOO prize. The gelding Bahepoto, which has shown some pace in the flat ,events and later showed some aptiture for hurdle racing, is an acceptor for the hurdle race at the Waikato meeting. AH going well, Rahepoto will be brought south for the Egmont and Wanganui meetings. There is a vast difference between the best and worst of our two-year-olds, such being brought home by the dual success of Royal Duke at the Marlborough meeting just held. A few weeks ago Episode gave Royal Duke 161bs and a very bad beating at the Wellington meeting, yet the latter was the equal of winning with 9.3 last Monday. Tins nominations received for coining steeplechase events suggest rather limited fields in that class of race during the coming jumping season. Considering the good prize money to hie won _in jumping" races, it ie rather surprising that owners of flat racers that lia.ve passed their prime do not relegate such animals to the jumping business. One could nominate quite a number of performers that are being raced on the flat with little or no .success that could not fare worse at hurdling. There are .those who advocate the centralisation of racing and the holding of country meetings on metropolitan courses in this Dominion is claimed to be the forerunner of such. One thing is certain, arid thatis if some relief from the excessive taxation i.s ! not given to most of the smaller clubs, then centralisation will come much sooner than the Government expects or desires.