NOTES BY "ACHILLES."

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11644, 23 August 1905, Page 7

NOTES BY "ACHILLES."

A punter up Taranaki way struck the Grand National double — Inniskillcn anc Creusot — at the fair odds of 250 to 2.

Maniapoto and Haydn left Wellington for Sydney on Saturday. Tho former wil compete in the Epsom Handicap — fc which he has been well backed — and Haydn will take nart in the Steeplechase events at the A*. C. Meeting at RandAvick. The meeting opeus on Saturdnv 9th September, when the Epsom Handicap and the Derby will be decided. Machine Gun 9.12, Grand Rapids 8.11 Cantson 8.7, and Maniapoto 8.4 are still left in the Epsom Handicap, of one mile Berthier, who is now 033 n of the favourites is weighted at 8.3, while Machine Gur has been supported strongly as the result of his great performance in winning the Tramway Handicap, 6 furlongs, last Saturday, when ha carried 10.12 and, finishing like a flash, cut down Isis (7.13) and won by a neck in lmin 14sec — remarkably fast time. If the big son of Hotchkiss — Rubi?ia can only stay out the extra two furlonps in the Epsom he must be very hard to beat. '

Tho New Zealand marc Nightfall promises to be at her best by the time "the A.J.C. Meeting comes round (says the Sydney Eefcree), and in the -weight-For-age races she is nearly sure to prove capable of holding her, own, even when opposed to the pick of Australian rarehorses. She has already been responsible for n particularly smart gallop or two, and it would be safe to bet thnt before tho" beginning of next month she will be credited -n-itli tli's s->aso-n'<s trnck record at nine or ten furious. Her "stable companions. Tsolt. Sunqrod, and Nnctuiform. ar^ nlso doiu" 1 well, aud those backers who follow the New Zcalanrlcs throughout at Randwick stmid n fair chance of coming out on the right side. -