RICCARTON TRAINING 'NOTES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9303, 1 August 1908, Page 5

RICCARTON TRAINING ' NOTES.

Saturday. Despite a light frost, the morning was brilliantly fin* and. pleasant for the large num-ber-of onlookers that was present to watch TKCocoedinff», which wero of an interesting character. Moat of the work was accomplished on the outside oi the course proper, which provided capital going. Hilarity, who was one of the first to appear, traversed a circuit on the inner grass track at threequarter speed. St Bernard ran five furlongß in lmin 7 3-ssec, being fully extended, while Cavatina defeated Northern Star in a spin over sis furlongs, which occupied lmm 22sec. Volodia (Chapman) dashed over six fuTlonge in lrain 18 JT-osec, a pleasing performance, and Beokwell took lmin 23 4-ssec to oompleio a similar journey. Monkey Puzzle had Amokura well beaten in a spin over six furlongs, •tvfa'ch sho ran easily in lmin 23 4-sseo. Eurus, alone, strode free'y over a mile and a quarts*. CftttEonioT and Tremulous ran the Irs* half-mile o{ a steady circuit at '.^ec-quarter speed, while Maid of Astol*t, vt*. moved freely, performed a similar task. Don Oisino defeated Lapland in a gal'iop over once round the inner track, and Lingerer, looking? in fine fettle, compassed two oircuits at half speed. Probable, with a feather-weight up, defeated Golden Cairn by eight lengths over seven furlongs, run in Irnin 33 l-sseo. EEeoxtheu, who started with them, finished some distance in the Teas. Rose Noble and Portland finished together at the end of a s-pin oyor six furlongs, run in lmin 19 3-ssec, but the former was conceding a lot of weight. Nancy Stair, who started with them, was beaten off. Pilot (T." Cahill). John Peel (Jerry O'CouneJl), and Soli in (Mr J. S«IV-) were companions in a- schooling task over the big fences. They omitted the post and rails Rnd the pest and rail and brush, jumping the flights of hurdles alongside. Pilot gave a capital display. Selini struck the sod wall heavily, and John Peel, who appeared to. be outpaced, performed fairly satisfactorily. Silkweb and Petrovna, brushed over half a mile in Slseo. finishing together, while Rescued ran six furlongs in lmin 21sec. Souithern Cross galloped a mile and a quarter, the hat nine furlongs of which occupied 2min 6 8-5 boo. He w-as assisted over th« last five furlongs by Ayesha. Stronghold (W. O'Connell) and . Farloy Grove (11. O'Connor) negotiated five flights of hurdles, and their effort was satisfactory. Stormont (Jarvis) and Whatakura (Whitehouse) treated the onlookers to a- finished display of jumping 1 in a schooling task over five flig-hts of hurdles. Lupulite, da-shed over six furlong's in lmin 21see, but he was not fully extended. Chief Lochiel, with a good advantage in the weights, easily defeated Mahaianui over a similar distance, run in lmin 22sec. Lady Disdain wag better than Zetland and BIvJ'V maid in a gallop over six furlongs, which she ran fairly easily in lmin 20seo. Storm (Cahill) and Albury (M?Kay) set out for a schooling task ever the big fences. Commencing over the double, the pair fenced beautifully until reaching the sod wall, -when Storm came to grief. Fortunately bis rider waa unhurt, and, remounting, finished the circuit. Storm made a faulty jump over the second of tho double, and nearly came down again. /AlbuTy, who had gone on by himself, completed another circuit, fencing well, although after Storm fell at the wall he did not travel at such a fast pace>. Canton and Master Leslie put- in a working gallop over a mil© and a quarter, finishing up fast. Pierre easily defeated Loch Fyne over a similar distance, which occupied 2min 29sec. Leeside, with a feather-weight up, traversed ten furlongs in 2min 20 8-Ssec, being ridden out, while White Cockade (E. Cotton) assisted hy> Harvest over the first part and Thyrsus over the last half-mile, galloped a milo in lmin 47 2-Ssec, a very smart performance. Pretty Well spurted four furlongs up the back in 53 l-ssec, and Helios ran a mile in lmin 55 4-5 see. Tessera (H. Corr) and Shimmer (Cochrane) negotiated five flights of hurdles B a.ti<=factonly, while Blessbok (Ayers) and Treni (Cochrane) performed fairly satisfactorily -n a similar task. Tho following horsea were given use-ful to light tasks : —Ability, DeerBlayer, Contender, Love Wisely, Vas», Aarangi, Sen Sim and Lo Beau.

The riwehorge Nadador arrived from Naoier by the Wimmera this morning 1 .