STAKE EARNING RECORD.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17964, 8 March 1930, Page 7 (Supplement)

STAKE EARNING RECORD.

AMOUNIS AND QLOAMINQ. THE FORMER’S CHALLENGE. The challenge of Amounts to Gloaming’s staxe-wlnnlng record ■of £43,100 Is attracting attention In Australia as well as New Zealand. According to a writer in the Sydney Referee, Amounls Is not likely to attain the record this autumn. He says: In Sydney he will bump Nightmarch, Phar Lap, and Chide, but, all the same, should find races like the Rosehill Rawson Stake* and Warwick Farm Chipping Norton Stakes to his liking.

They -carried £512 and £756 respectively last year, leaving approximately £4OOO of the £7500 for Amounis to make up at the A.J.G■meeting. (This was written prior to the success of Amounis at Flemington on Saturday, which reduced the margin to £6400). At Randwick his chief engagements Will he the Autumn Stakes (1J miles) and All-Aged Stakes (1 mile). The former carried £1832 and the latter £2204 twelve months ago. If Amounis captures all these races he will just about head Gloaming, but it is a big thing to ask. A mile and a half has always been close to his limit, and he will have particularly tough opponents over that journey in Nightmarch, High Syce, and Chide. Phar Lap will be busy with the St. ■Leger on Autumn Stakes day. Nightmarch, too, showed his calibre as a sprinter by winning the Epsom with 41b over w.f.a. last spring. He is not one to be lightly discarded when considering the chance of Amounis in eveut3 at any distance, and he has ptoved himself o far better stayer than Amounis ever was. Apart from the fact that ho will meet a better class horse in Sydney, Amounis is of little use on a rainsodden track. His best effort in that direction was his Futurity win at Caulfield, but as he covered the seven furlongs under 10.4 in lmin 27$ sec the track could not be termed sloppy. At worst it was a little dead, and was not bad enough to affect the foothold. Prior to his series of Melbourne successes last spring Amounis xvas only fifth in the Hill Stakes (1 mile) won by Winalot from Mollison and' Nightmarch. It is certain Amounis improved subsequently, but so did Nightmarch, who was going- best of the ■Hill Slakes field at the finish. Nightmarch didn’t meet Amounis subsequently, and that is the only race, so far, on which their form can be compared. Amounis later treated Mollison with disdain in the Linlithgow Stakes at Flemington, hut the latter’s form throughout the spring was patchy. Consequently he cannot be

taken as a true medium of comparison. It is difficult to forecast just what next spring may hold in store In the matter of w.f.a. horses. But whatever it may produce, Amounis is the type who will always he capable of getting his fair share of the prizes. He needs very little work to lit him for racing, and that is the secret of his wonderful soundness. No horse can go on racing for ever, but the odds are all in favour of Amounis out-lasting 90 per cent of them. An unbeaten record in ail the races men-

tioned above during this autumn will be necessary for Amounis to reach Gloaming’s figures. But his trainer, F. McGrath, is not likely to feel unduly concerned' about his prospect of eventually getting there, even if it doesn’t happen in the next two months. With Amounis’ win in the C.M. Lloyd Stakes’ at Flemington on Thursday, his . earnings have now reached ~>Y, 790. — ("Martian.”)