GISBORNE PARK STEEPLECHASE MEETING.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 206, 5 July 1894, Page 6

GISBORNE PARK STEEPLECHASE MEETING.

The Gisborne Park Steeplechase Club hold their meeting to-day, and when their last race has been run we shall be done with racing until the Christchurch Grand National Meeting. I don’t suppose Auckland interest will be very keen over the meeting, but following my usual custom I shall give my impressions of the meeting. In the hurdle race of 6osovs, two miles, Disturbance heads the weight list with' 11.9, which weight should not extinguish the chance. Raven at 21b less I am not partial to, but Waterlily, 10.8, should have a chance. The Bishop, 10.5, I am not enamoured of, and Roscius’ chance looks better in the Steeplechase, in which event this jumper is lightly treated with 10.4. Rimu, 10.0, I am very fond of, and the one that leads this hurdler past the post should win. Of Tricky Jack, Beauly, The Turk, and Jibboom the first-named should be the best. I think Rimu should win, and the place getters may be Disturbance and Tricky Jack. Thirteen have accepted for the Gisborne Park Steeplechase of 75SOVS, about three and a half miles, and as I expected, the Auckland pair, Crazy Kate and Fishmonger, have not paid up. Morag, if accepted for, should have settled all other pretensions, but the wound in his leg having burst during his Hawke’s Bay run, his owners have decided to spell him. Raven heads the weights with 11.10, and weight and all, the chance cannot, be despised. Disturbance’s chance looks better in the small stick event, and the next weight, Criminal 10.8, may prove the winner. I would sooner back this ’chaser as anything in the race. New Year, jo.B, has a chance, but Criminal should be the better at the impost, and Pani I give but little chance too. None of the others have a chance in my opinion unless it be Roscius. Criminal, Raven and itoscius should be the best. In the Winter Oats St. Kilda has declined the crusher of 13.13, and it would certainly be doubtful policy to run with such a burden. I should take the best to be Jewel, Samoa, and The Sharper. In the final handicap I like Zillah, Samoa or Hukatere.