OTAGO HUNT CLUB STEEPLE CHASES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 5468, 28 August 1879, Page 3

OTAGO HUNT CLUB STEEPLE CHASES.

.:.-.-.•,,.■ ; : . ,- .. ■ » . .-. ... -LLV ! 'li Aftnistisno*'being put upon, the horses, that are going to ba engaged on Saturday. No more heary work can be given them, so that those that are short of work will .have to re- : main so. I vifited the course this morning and b»w »11 that was done ; Huntsman went on : the beach,and did, BJtap light galloping in good ■ styl«; He seeroa strong and well, and I rather' fancy him. * >His timber-jumping capabilies are. undeniable, and he is not very (low.- Cotton's', team werein.town atthe blacksmitli'i, so th&t, 1 can't say anytbiDg ,'of,' them, but hear; that. they are both very fit indesd.,. Kildare add" Prostfish went thrte miies *n the tarifat- halfiSgeed., Both went.well, «nd«I: think ought to have'BoMSthiDg'tO'.say' in tbeir respective ehgagsments. ; Native waa'sweated, goiog about ~2i,mil«s,( a t .Jialf-speed. r ~Tbis. son;' of, Prince Alfred, though.jnofi byjanjr, meaiu.fit, went f well within himself, and I think should'render ,-a,fjOr"account'of nimself in the Handicap. The brown- mare -Antoinette was out oarliar, and did some work on tho beach, but this I did not vititnedsVi^'iXijU^MJK'quiii, and Turk do their work in the ■afternoon.' Of the first two I can say;very little,'"aaill'sm-not »cquainted with their condition, but Turk looks well.-. -As regarua'the probable winners of ithe^ twe : o?6nt», J c»n scarcely Bay much definitely.'*' For the Cup Erin-go-Bnigh and Kildare are in "the but condition; and I believe that both nil! have the advaitageVi being1 iridden well. Their respective rideis aro likely, to. be Messrs Brajd'■ley and Taggart.': Sqarrip,' the1 Saddle' Hill «■ pretentative; ia talked about as not beirig'alto::ceth«<iu);;bf.this;race;!''He is being prepared Tn the country,*sUl'tftyo nd mean? cf knoyirig. about his fitness or the revewe. The accept^ : auces h'avo notyet' been made for the Handicap. I shall i, ttiertfore reserve judgment:1 uutil'then; Bomance^HnntsmaDj: Frostfish, and Native all seem pretty well treated by thshandicappers, and I should look for this winner •: airio-g'the'above-named lot;.; >;.K 'i .. ; ; ■';;• ■•! -'-'■ ..;-; v. . .-;■ -..-• The Todt on thb Hnia