SPORTING.

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

SPORTING.

. LIMERICK FOR AUSTRALIA.. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGJTON, July 27. The racehorse Dim-ericjc einbaafvCid in the UUmaroa. lor Sydney this morning in' charge of Trainer F. D. J ones. Other horses in Jones’s team are: Rosoica, Arikiwai, Gay Crest, Lighthearted 'ami Island Fastness. Jones has allso under his oa.ro. for the trip one three-year-old Boston .v o imgster. T. J. Daly, with H ynanna, and Thurnbejil is also on board, aisi Wei! as C. Christie with Tlione and Liilt.

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By “Maecenas.”) Tio-day’ia racing'-at Gisborne closes the racing season of 1927-28. i Ohelone is doing pleasing work at A wap-uni, and is certain to run a good i-a-cp if sent .south "for the Winter Cup. Kilia, who won several -races' when trained bv F. Tilley, is now an inmate of L. Knapp’s stable ait Awa.pnni. Kales is getting through satisfactory work in view of his Ricearton engagement. He has many admirprs for the Winter Cup, but will! have to do better than in any previous race to -have -a chance in the big mile ait Ricearton. The Waikato-owned Wiltshire is a much-discussed animal just now, in v iew of ’ his Ricearton -eiigag)?-ments. .Chat Wiltshire is a promising young steeplechaser there is no doubt, and' his prospects over the big fences are just as bright as any of the younger brigade, but whether he will successfully liego tiate the -bag jumps at Ricearton remains to be fse-eii. Wiltshire can ,he described a.s a- good jumper, but at times is inclined to “chance” his iumps. This fault at Ricearton would, of course, I. ring about his undoing, but it is pos‘libel that' tbiis season’s racing has niiade VV if t-shirt more sober. If that is so, then lie can be relied on to give a g-ao-d

account of himself, even in a. race like the Grand National Steeplechase.

In the past performers capable of running a brilliant seven or even .six furlongs have figured prominently in Winter Cups. HVith- fbhais before one, Royal Da/lnon’is prdspeex-s for the big mile at Ricearton loom u.o as 'bright, j Trentham stables will b 3 represented I in tlie Winter Cup at the coming meet- , mg ‘at Ricearton by Black Mint® who rt-iR be ridden by S. Henderson; Ring Boy, on which gelding A- Tinker will lake the mount; Ranblier, who will have li. 11. Morris’s 'Services, and Royal Damon, on will eh gelding T. Green takes the seat. While the winner»may not be among this four, it would be hard to find a. stronger combination. The -ex-Taranaki rider, M. McOarten, :.s level wiith J. Simpson for third pdaco in the jockey’is list for New South Wales. Each has ridden 32 winners, but MoCarten’s percentage of 16.9 is much better than Sijnpson’s, who has 'rickleu only one in ten mounts. I Hawke’s Bay reports oiudit Red Fuchsia with being a very fit gelding, l ie. lias -shown extraordinary oonsiisiteiiit form over hurdles this season and even on his iyscond place performance toJieaiu Oiivaliier in the rocentiy-nm Winter 1:1 iiiidHes, Red Fuchsia, must prove one of the very hardest to- beat in the coming Giwmd*National Hurdles. This geldiiifg is a natural stayer that will', be running on when most of the runners will be tiring in the two mite and five furlongs of the Grand National Hurdles. Those i,ti a position to know, state that the attendance at Ellerslio on Great Northern Steeplechase day of tlie recent meeting, was over 30,600. Yet, in spite of this' enormous attendance and source oi l'evonue, tlie Auckland Racing Club have announced! a reduction of prize money far next -season. If the big northern club -arts forced to take this .step At forecasts- a bad time for owners of racehorses. Pointed indications suggest Beau Cavalier a viS-ry improbable 'starter for the Grand National Steeplechase. Past, history shows that it i,s next to impossible to win the Canterbury Jockey Club’s big steeplechase and hurdle race at the saline meeting. This is not surprising when one. knows the long and trying course of the Grand National Steeplechase with its formidable obf'tables. ' Wore the Grand National Hurdle raefe decided on the fi-r-sit day of tlie meeting, and the Hurdles on thothird day. the feat would, be much easier, biit after a, competitor has undergone a preipa.ration for the steeplechase, and succeeded over the 3.) miles of that event it would he only a sniper-animal; that com Id heat a Grand National', Hurdle ra.ee field on the second day of the meeting. Evidently the connections of Perm Cavalier have arrived at the decision that the Grand National Hurdles will be more easily won, so Beam Oava"er will ‘possibly run in the Jumpers : Flat' on the efav the big steeplechase co-rnos up for •decision.