SPORTING.

Otaki Mail, 27 March 1922, Page 4

SPORTING.

It is stated that Rangi Thompson is schooling Starland over hurdles at Te Awamutu. A useful three-year-old gelding in Santala, by Sutala —Procrastinate, met its end at Riccarton through running off the course and crashing into a post.He wag injured internally and died in B a few hours. It is Stated that Ct. Young intends appealing - against the suspension inflicted upon him by the stewards of the Waimate Club. That Beauford is fully ready for autumn engagements lie proved very conclusively at the Newcastle meeting on : the 11th lust., when ho carried the i great impost of 11.9 to victory in the Shorts Handicap (6 furlongs) and lie | beat a field of 12 in 1.145. Despite his big impost, Beauford was made a strong ; favorite. All continuing well with , Beauford he can be depended upon te I give Eurythmic a strong task when the i A.J.C. All-aged Stakes comes up for I , i { "Beacon" of the Melbourne Loader, < holds the opinion that had Sister Olive .escaped Interference in the running cn the Australian Cup she would have i won the long distance handicap instead - of running second to Harvest King. The Australian rider, T. Burn, who has been engaged to ride for F. Hartigan’s stable this season left Meibom a for England last week. V. Hartigan trains for Lord Rosebery, and it is understood that the Scottish peer will have first call on Burn's services. The highest price paid for a yearling on the second day of the Victorian sales was loOOgns. which sum was paid for a colt by Woorak front the Wallace mare Our Queen. It transpires that the New Zealand bred mare Caricature, who was shipped • to Sydney recently, was purchased on account of Mrs Frank Aldritt, of New South Wales. Forest Gold, the Ohiuemuri Cup winner, was the outsider of the field, and j returned his backers a double-figure dividend. He was ridden a well-judged race by L. George, the Taranaki apprentice. [ Arguments as to the relative merits of Carbine and Eurytlnnic continue to excite considerable attention fn Australia. ‘‘Beacon,” of the Melbourne Leader-,* writes as follows: Racing folk are ever ready to “bowdown and worship the rising sun,” hi i ere fore it is not surprising that on Saturday—if not since—the Eurythmics outnumbered the Carbines. Personalty, while granting that Eurythmic is “the horse of a century”—the twentieth century—l cannot sub i scribe to the view that lie is a greatI er, or even as great, as Carbine. I When lie equals Carbine’s Melbourne Cup performance, I shall ungrucig- ' ingly hand him the palm. Carrying 1 10.5, and with a bound-up foot, Carbine beat a horse like Highborn, who, with only 6.8 on his back, had been tried to be almost unbeatable. Carbine not only beat Highborn, hut had J tii» race won three ■ furlongs from [home. Highborn, the horse to whom j Carbine gave 3.11, and ' nearly thiee j lengths' beating, a few months later had won four good races, including ‘ the Sydney Cup, with 9-3- Though | staying was his forte, Carbine was good over all distances. As a threej year-old Carbine, wittrS.Tf, raa third j to two great sprinters, Sedition and Lochiel, in the Newmarket Handicap, and finished within a length or the winner. The same week, with S.o— one pound less than hie older I horse’s weight—lie was just beaten by I Lochiel in the Australian Cup, and then easily downed Abercorn, Melos, and three others, over three miles in the Champion Slakes. Carbine, the same season, carried the record | weight for a three-year-old, 9-0, in me I Sydney Cup. Approaching the home turn, Carbine was nearly knocked down—his nose touched the ground. Entering the straight he was at me tail of the field, yet with a brilliant run he got up in time to heat Melo-, to whom he was conceding 121 b, a head, with Abercorn, one of the greatest horses that has graced the Australian turf, two lengths away third, with 9.4 on his four-year-old back. What a magnificent performance mr l a three-year-old! Before wildly < inserting that Eurytlnnic is •‘better than Carbine,” admirers of the freak horse should carefully peruse Carbine's record. Reverting to the futurity Stakes, is it not possible that Sve are over-rating Eurythmic's performance R was really a welter race. Every horse tvith any pretension to “class” was penalised close up to the winner. In fact, Eurythmic was meeting them all on better terms than would have been the case had the race been a handicap, and there was no “dark ’horse” claiming all the allowances in the race, such as Comedy King was, when, with. 6.<, he defeated Mai tine, 10.4, by a length yp. .m.uMi/pn™***!-?!*"* IPgjißlg