Northern Notes

NZ Truth, Issue 889, 9 December 1922, Page 11

Northern Notes

(By "Walmanju.")

Second day Takapuna was on tho quiet side. Tho toto was £20,000 odd down on tho second day, and £29,000 on tho 1 meeting. * j Still, a club which does ovor six figures for a two-day meeting haa nothing to growl about m theso hard times. Alan McDonald had two mounts and two wins tho' Bocond day. Night Time and Ilyglnas. A quid all up would have scored over sixty. McDonald rides with heart, hands and head. Ills molco defeated a stable mato on each occasion. Thero was a hurdle half-down m the hißt jump of tho Stanley Hurdles und the llrst three horses had a great race for tho gap. Penniless got tho worst of tho jostling, but it was nothing serious. Golden Bubblo cakcwalkod tho Cautley Handicap. PrlnccHß Roll enmo down In tho Vauxhall and brought Sundaur with her. Tho BerftßOon colt h;,d to bo destroyed. Hin pilot, Ashley Rocd, got badly shaken up and couldn't »io<?r Illumination m tho big go. Koy Thomson, who had come d6w'n on . Prlneoss Hell, got A. Heed's ride. Mid i landed the brown horse m good style.

Nothing doing to-day. Geoffrey was off-color and none of E. W. Alison junr's candidates ran into the money at the meeting, which is Unusual for "Young Ewen" at Takapuna. ' , Forest Gold ran two good honest seconds, and with 7.9 will be well backed m the Auckland Cup, but the class is a* bit richer. t Gerald' Stead had another- win with Tarletbh, and with Soltana dead-heat-ing second the divvy was built up a bit. Tarieton looks like > proving a stayer. | Old Marconi was out again for the Kawau Hurdles. He's the last of the Soults. The punters were puzzled In the Welter as to whether Archie or Refinement was the Alison pea. As usual, they guessed • wrong. Refinement fairly flew down the straight and Gloaming couldn't have gone with her. She won hard held by about six lengths. She is still m the Great Northern Derby, but also appears m the Railway with only 6.11. The concluding day provided t*iree instances- of " the non-coupling rule with stable-mates. In the first hurdles W. Sharp had Miss Melva and Night Time engaged and the outsider of the two landed. Charlie Coleman produced Hygh\as and Wharepoa and -this time the favorite of the stable won. ,In the final welter the Alison stable had the punters puzzled with Archie and Refinement. Con Reed had the mount on Archie and the outsider was ridden by L Coleman. The only difference in* the two interests between father and son as owners was marked by a different colored' cap, and the public made Archie nearly favorite. Me was never sighted m the race, but the filly won with ridiculous ease. Had these stable companions been bracketed m the races mentioned the public would have bet with much more confidence, ;and it would save a lot of guessing work and after talk. It is up to the next Conference to bring the trotting, definition of "joint interest" into force for the gallopq. * Callaghan and Jolly Princess both emptied out m the last race, and Wiggins and Keesing each got a nasty shake. Callaghan has the best of English blood quality and should be sent to the stud. He has never looked like a winner and has a leg which may let him and his backers down at any time. The advance agents are trying to make Cupidon favorite In the quotes for the Auckland Cup. , A. B. Williams holds a strong hand m the Cup with Gasbag 9.5. Rapine 7,9, md King's Trumpeter 7.8, whilst Epitaph has 8.3 m the Railway. Scion 8.2 has a great opportunity of being a dual Cup winner. , Insurrection 8.1 and Royal Present 8.4 are well treated. Can Uncle Ned come back with 7.13? Fred Davis is nicely set m the Railway with Killashandra 7.3, Lracius 7.2, and Flngt>land 7.0. The handicapper has looked after Highland with 17. Matinee (7.8) beat Highland In 'he G.N. Guineas and has not raced since, but now receives 131bs which,: to »ay the least, la peculiar adjusting. , The Waipa and Te Awamutu Cups should be a good try out for some of the candidates mentioned. J. O'Shea Is riding work again at Ellerslie and looks fit after his holiday. The Government Income and amusement tax flepds made it a welter at Takapuna. There was not much revenue lost at the ticket boxes.