RANDOM RACING REMARKS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume II, Issue 56, 20 August 1891, Page 6

RANDOM RACING REMARKS.

[by

PEGASUS.”]

Soon we will be in the “ throes” of the racing season of 1891. I purpose offering a few remarks from time to time on all forthcoming events of the period. Amongst the first items of importance requiring attention are Metropolitan Stakes, Hawkesbury Handicap, and the A.J.C. Derby. The last-named event is run on Saturday, 12th September Amongst the entrants the best known to fame are Stromboli, Oxide, Sunshine, Lord Grenville, Penance, Yarran, The Magistrate and Sanctuary. I quite expect to see these and one or two others appear on the day. Stromboli, Oxide and Penance are very well known already. Sunshine, by Segenhoe —Twilight, ran second to a head with Highborn at Rosehill. Some sporting writers, I notice, have not acquainted the public of the fact. Why ? The race in question was the All-Aged Stakes, 1£ miles, w.f a.; result — Highborn, 9st lib, 1; Sunshine, 7st 81b, 2; Sir William, 9st 41b, 3. Won by a head. Compare Sunshine's weight in the Hawkesbury Handicap, and what a great show he must have amongst the class of horses in that race. Yarran won the last Maribyrnong I late, .and is entitled to great consideration. The Magistrate belongs to the same party, and he may be their “ right bower.” Sanctuary is a promising colt by Grand Flaneur—Terrara, and although he went down in his two-year-old races before Oxide and Stromboli, yet, as I have already remarked, brilliant two-year-olds are not the best at three. I incline to the belief that as a three-year-old Sanctuary will just about turn the tables on those two. Lord Grenville should be carefully watched for this event. He is my “ dark one ” of the list. Look out for the result of the Hawkesbury Handicap! Where will Sunshine, Grenadier and Palliser be at the finish ? A few remarks on the Metrop. and Hawkesbury in my next. Aidershot is a very powerful “tip” for the Maribyrnong Plate of ’9l. I like Trieste. For the New Zealand Cup the three best on the score of weights are Strephon, Freedom and Rosefeldt. It won’t surprise me if those be their places at the finish. Two other items worth looking after are Moonray, by Chester — Moonstone for the Maribyrnong Plate, and Bengal, by Chester — Gymkana for the three-year-old event.

“ As slow as a cork in a dead eddy,” is a Yankee way of describing a slow horse. Auckland has the exceptional honour of having two Metropolitan Trotting Clubs, both officially appointed—one by the N.Z. Trotting Association and the other by the Colonial Secretary —and some pretty complications are likely to arise in consequence. One is called the Auckland Pony and Trotting Association, and is affiliated with the New Zealand Association. It is presumed that its head quarters are the North Shore and Mr. R. Wynyard, the Secretary, but as the Club has only been a paper one up to the present, never having raced, the public know little or nothing of it. The other is the Auckland Pony and Trotting Club, which has held so many meetings at Potter’s Paddock under the direction of their secretary, Mr. 0. F. Mark. The Otahuhu Club is the only one at present affiliated with the Auckland Club. The Onslow Club has not yet finally settled which combination they will throw in their lot with. ' !