CANTERBURY CHAT

NZ Truth, Issue 605, 20 January 1917, Page 10

CANTERBURY CHAT

(By "The Looker-On.") i While galloping four furlongs on tho trial grass one day last week Wrestler, ' when rounding the turn, crashed into a trestle and smashed it to bits. As neither the youngster nor colt appeared to • bo hurt Cutts put a stronger boy up and galloped the colt again. Unfortunately the son of Antagonist was de- : cidedly lame afterwards and he will not [ make the Wellington trip. * Ribble is looking an Improved geld--1 ing, but ho did not gallop well enough to make his trainer take him to Tren- . tham . 1 Snub is being restricted to steady pacing. He is going m a somewhat > Bcratohy manner and he might not snr- . vivo the season's racing. Wardancer Is still on the absentee I list and writer Is afraid that it will be > some time before he is ready to faco the t barrier again. A few weeks ago an , offer of five, hundred guineas, waamado j for Warstop's brother, but Mr. Dalgoty turned it down. r Disdainful is not going m a satlafnci tory manner at all. Sho always did go i m rathor a scratchy way, but now the haJf-aister to Bee moves u« if Bhe was l on stilts, and it is doubtful whether sho x will ovc* b© right again. Marc Antony may not raco until tha Easter meeting here. The black horse , has not shown his true form this aea- * son. It looks as If F. Christmas has got » something moro than useful In KHJoy. \ The Kllbroney filly just arrived In time to take the burden of «tukt> wirninK from Kllmony and Tho Cornet. So far J Hhc has wi\ beattMi anything, of good ■ clans, but tho Uttlo mure has done all that has been asked of lior very nlcoly. s Slogan managed to win some money c on tho Went Coast. The opposition \ could not have boon very utrong. ns tbo i 1 gelding 1m getting paat hlfl days of mflt Ity aa a racehorse. Some pooplo wore greatly impressed » with Mattlo'B form at Wingfttui. Hex foro onthuslng over -the pony it would " be advisable to look carefully over tho • lot which finished behind her nnd consider how many of them nro ever likely a to pay their wny. '. Zuland is being hacked about and Is f quite sound. Tho Finland gelding h shown Blpna of having had a greaay heel v recently, but otherwise he In m tho best of health. 0 Bpangle, who arrived back from Auntrnlta sumo trme b#foro hur »;ablc

mates, has picked up wonderfully. She has just been taken up again and may find her way back to Australia once more. > Briar Patch's trainer does not look at her with a friendly eye. She has the habit of not running up to her private form . Sisyphus is cm improving youngster, and if looks go for anything he should pay his way when dressed m his best. The three-year-old filly, by Treadmill — Fairhaven is a good looker and would develop into a high -class mare if she only had a good set of legs. As things are one of her front pins looks as if might go at any time. It is unlikely that we shall see the best of Cincinnatus. He is a good stayer and with a better set of legs would have made himself known m many a big handicap field. Margerine was given a few days' spell after returning from the south. She has built up splendidly and Is looking a picture. Banian and Art have started work. So far they have not done anything more than trot and canter. Both are looking well and should be cherry ripe when the winter meetings arrive. Adjutant should run a good race m the Wellington Cup. 'The last quarter of a mile may find, him out, but he is well and galloping m his best style. Samlsen's chance of -winning the Telegraph Handicap is favorably considered here, but the fact remains that she has made several trips to Wellington arid though carrying the confidence of her people on each occasion has not galloped' nearly tas well as expected. The old saw of "horses for courses" might apply m this case. Ascalaphus was a sad disappointment to his trainer down south. The Martian — Gipsy Gir.l gelding was raced out of his distance at Invercargill. He is much too green to see out ten furlongs yet. .• . . . . ■ • .. Week End cannot stand a hard track. One of her knees is bumpy and now that the trouble is coming out the Holiday House mare may get sounder. Kilrea will be a runner m the Wellington classic. Comely is inclined to be thick m the wind. Though a sturdily constitutioned little mare she blows rather hard unless her trainer gives her plenty of galloping. Bandy will not stand long. It is a pity he was put into work while the tracks were hard. When schooled some time back he proved himself a . fine jumper, i and with hits speed and stamina he might have won a big hurdle race if reserved for winter racing. Killena has 'been retired from the racing game, and next season will be meted with one of the Elderslie Hires. Fiery Cross is a regular attendant at Riccarton. Should the chestnut return to .his Spring form he will win more races before the season closes. The tasks set him are of a mild kind; Daytime on several occasions has threatened to go wrong, but his trainer by a timely spell has generally managed to avert the danger. ! The little gelding is losing some of his brilliancy, but is now staying on orach better than formerly. Furling has some speed, but she does not thicken and build up as a good one ought to. Sbe does not possess a very robust constitution. ; McAuley is having some bother m getting- Henrietta right. Like a number of other thoroughbreds imported from England this mare is always troubled with some petty ailment or another. Good Hope looks an Improved geld-, ing and, it will not cause track watch- .. era any surprise if he wins a decent class race before the * fiat racing 1 season ends. Though not up to classical form the Cannle Chiel gelding is a very good galloper.