NOTES BY "SOUKAR"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XVIII, Issue 9344, 24 February 1881, Page 2

NOTES BY " SOUKAR "

In the first place I must corrects slight printer's error which occurred ■ my last notes. I am made to sn " Chandler won one hurdle" race safelya it should have been ran one hurdle racS &c. Libeller and Billingsgate haM safely arrived and are located at Bae'S the first-named never looked better, &M as he and Billingsgate have no engagS ments until the Wanganui meeting tfisß should both strip a few pounds bettm than the horses that have to come froS the Dunedin meeting, as three days oa ship-board, however good the weathfl may be, must put a horse out. Keit.jl team put in an appearance on the coun on Saturday morning for a spin. jM Dream seems to have improved somi what since I saw him last, and tl Derby candidate, Woodpecker, also wei better than I have hitherto seen him gi Soukar and Ada look as well as usua Soukar, I fancy, is short of fast wori and his trainer will require to send liii along if he is to occupy as prominent place in the Cup as he did last year.John Walker has a half sister to Chandß ler, looking very well, she is a proba„B starter for the Derby. Hackfall, whfl ran in last year's Derby, is also in thjfl same hands. He is a Maid-n Plater 9 understand. Otawa is still to the form and, despite all the hard work he h_9 done, seems sound and in good hearw The Derby filly Nganui I have not sew at work lately. — Mr Harrison's Derral candidate, Buzzard, has, I hear, go_S slightly wrong. This is to be regretteffl as he, with luck, would have been oM of the first three. — Major Mors.!! youngsters are, I hear, doing we|| They consist of Annuity and Sinceritr|| and a couple of two-year-olds, the hffi of which I presume will be a starter. M the Sapling Stakes. Another of ttM same gentleman's Derby nominations ll in C. Brewer's hands at Waitotara, I'M the colt, Venture, was very backward i|| condition when I saw him last, aud|| doubt if he can be got fit for the ensuing meeting. — Rae and Lyford's team-f| not a very brilliant lot, and seem to giv|| the latter his work to keep them in an*- 1 tli-z-g- lilio irjrn, if-wo o_-o©p- £•»_• •»-ofcan_T "j Momus, who is regaining his old for*j £ — Astronomer met with a mishap . | Wellington through falling during 7^ spin and injuring himself severely | Rae, who was in charge, apparently ge. | him round far enough to start a-l Marlborough, where he ran second oi M the first day in the Flying, but on QM second day he bolted in his preHminarj 1 and ran into a wire fence, which put hfcß out of the Cup race, in which he badiH good chance. — The Rangitikei repn-H sentatives are all, I hear, doing welig D. Scott has Camelia, his Derby filly, oS fine trim. lam told she has thickenecß out during the last two months verjß much ; and Lady Mary, the hurdle marcH is also in fine buckle. King Don ar_g Monk are at present located at Mr Dra Scott's, in charge of Copestake, t.g Grand National winner being very biffl| in condition, and I hear his owner do_f| not intend to start him until t_B Steeplechase meeting, but his stat-B companion, Monk, is being schoole.g over the sticks with a view to ri_B ning in Hurdle Races. He shapes weE,B I am told, but has got rather on the foB side as regards condition, which is a b~B fault in a hurdle horse. At TuraMaß Banshee is reported to be herself o DC *B again, after having a foal, supposed ten be by Day Dawn. " As we have evidenaß that mares will race well after breedio|H (Titania, for instance), I would not fefl surprised to see her repeat her last year™ performance at Turakina next week.-fl Mr D. Frazer's team, under the care cjH Frank Gay, are all looking well. Tifl Derby colt, Bull's Eye, has improve® amazingly, and takes more kindly to hi work than he did in the spring. As ii is well enough bred to win a Derby i first-class company, he should have* good say in our local one next monti Aurora and the Hurdle mare,Rangatir& are also in good trim, and will perfons at Turakina next week — the former i. the Turakina Handicap and District Race, and the latter in the Hurdle Race. — Powdrell's horses are, I hear, all to pieces, except Miss Emma — Hailstoribeing still an invalid, and Tally H* running in the paddock, a fit companies for Ringleader.. These three horses well bred as they undoubtedly art should have been a strong team i* themselves in good hands, but ba« been, to say the least, unfortunate although there are plenty good trainer! to be had at a hundred a year who con* have done any owner justice. — I shal notice the town teams of Messrs Roffft Mclvor, Potto, Harrison, and Byrnes. in my next. — I notice that the AucklaSand Southern papers presume th* l Libeller has not incurred a penalty s the Wanganui Cup through wanning th* Racing Club Handicap at Wellingtoft and I am at one, with them, althougmy friend " Spectd-or" thinks otherwise. It is simply a clerical error* drawing up the programme, the *vor» "of the value " being omitted, arujl maintain that it never was intended ty the Club that the winner of a race w 175 soys. should be penalised for winni^ a race advertised as 200 soys. ; and in tfeJH interest of thf sporting public I assured that the Stewards will tre»fl libeller honestly, and not ask his o . ffD -sj!fl to put up an extra slbs when it is n* fl justly incurred. I allude to this matttffl as it has been the subject of much di^fl cussionin sporting circles these last f-*fl days. __ fl