NORTHERN NOTES.

NZ Truth, 5 October 1918, Page 7

NORTHERN NOTES.

(By "Woolstone.")

Demoiselle is a good maiden. Peneton, a good jumper, has. been taken m hand by his owner. By winning, at Otaki, Demos made a fair contribution to northern punters. Aucklanders were disappointed at Biplane's defeat at Rosehill, N.S.W., but he was beaten on that course last year. Marble Star is going well on the track, and if the ground is not too hard may bring off a. surprise. . - : . . . „ In giving Mangamahoe 6.12 m the New Zealand Cup the handicapper has not been severe, for m the Cornwall Handl- . cap last year he gave Parisian Diamond a long .start and a good beating. . Lady Lyddite is to be tried at the jumping game. She is a well-built mare and showed some promise last season. The Finland — Pinery two-year-old m Cunningham's charge is a well-grown youngster, and the way he moves suggests he will yet be heard of. Hautere is doing good track work. A place' m a steeplechase picture m the near future is- quite likely. No Mistake, the two-year-old relative to Kakama is coming on nicely. Fabriquette, who at the Auckland Summer meeting won the Robinson Handicap, and the Ferguson Handicap, is looking well, and possibly may. reproduce the form she showed last Christmas. Shining. Light is another that may shine this season. The Marble Arch gelding had only one win last season, at Takapuna m November, but two places.' -in seven other starts. Bedford is going well, and if he keeps sound a good race should be his portion. ' Northland, whose owner is said to have refused six hundred guineas for "Him, is looking well enough to make one believe the Foremost gelding is as good as 'his supporters 'thought lie' 'was. Two wins at Auckland's June meeting and a second at Hawke's Bay to Jacaranda, is his last season's record. ; . . . . . . • Carrozet has grown into a solid customer. The son of Bezonian had ten starts ■ last season without a win, though he was four times placed. Tenacious, -who ' last year showed a partiality for places, he finished' five times either second or third, did a few hurdles one morning last week at Ellerslie. The Avondale " Jock'iey Club has appointed Mr. H. Coyle as their handicapper iri' place of the late Mr. J. L. Henry recently killed m a motor accident. ■ The Takapuna's Jockey Club's annual -nieeting was • fixed' for last Wednesday; too late for notice this week, and the annual report was not available. Of the youngsters performing 'at Eiierslie; Princess Gharming is still most' m the touts' eye. The .other: day; she' cut ; out three furlongs m 38 seconds. It cannot be- said. 1 that the ibsue ' of | weights m the New Zealand r Cup ' has livened Auckland interest m that event. Of the few who discuss it the fancy runs to the seven.-=stotie", '.division— Depredation with 7.0 and Red Ribbon' 7.4. Two years ago the former won the. Auckland Cup carrying' 7.s;- but has d6ne nothing since - to warrant".' lie'avy. ln.vestm-en.ts. on him. • . -. Reparation, Gravitation's son, . has gravitated to schooling; Last season the' gelding- faced -the— barrier nine-times and' only troubled the judge's eyesight once—--winner' of the Farmers Plate- Handicap of 100 spvs. But even m "that: he had luck, for Mattock finished .first but was ' disqualified. • If he can- stand up, similar good fortune may come his way. Rose Pink is not the first mare with a colored name that has caused the- books • to use coloi-ed language. • ".Woolstone" remembers well, and- with profit, the speedy Brown and Rose, "of N.S.W., and

that other feminine flyer of the 'eighties, Cerise and Blue.- The latter was bought, if writer remembers rightly, by Bookmaker Oxenham, at an up-country, meeting m one Of the old-fashioned selling races, price 37 guineas. - She proved a better spec than laying the odds. Art rather than sport took this scribe last week into the Auckland Gallery, and he was surprised to find the painting of Auckland's A.R.C. president hung up m the "British and Foreign" section of the building. "Woolstone" thought "Mitch" was Aucklandish, but Art apparently considers him British or Foreignish.