CANTERBURY

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 1000, 6 May 1909, Page 7

CANTERBURY

CHRISTCHURCH, May 5. Buccleuch broke down badly when running in the Flying Handicap at the Christchurch R.C. meeting on Saturday last. He will be sent to the stud next season.

Bulletin, half-brother to Bobrikoff, is likely to make a good galloper. So far he has only competed in moderate company, but he has won his races in hollow fashion, and he strikes me as being one who is bound to win in better company before long. R- W. King did the hat trick on Saturday, winning the first three races on the programme. L. Acland, who has just joined the ranks of owners, won his first race on Saturday by the aid of Lady Disdain, whom he purchased at the conclusion of the Canterbury autumn meeting. Sea King, who was voted by the shrewd ones as a moral for the Flying Handicap at Plumpton, cut up badly after going half-a-mile. He has let his owner down more than once lately. Petrovna, who gave a glimpse of hei’ best form in the Flying Handicap, showed plenty of dash in the last furlong, and won comfortably. She will finish her racing career this season.

Claymore, a fine-looking son of Multiform —Marion, was whispered about as a good thing for the Hack Handicap at Plumpton, but he was never in the hunt. This horse did a season at the stud last year, and as he has a reputation of being able to gallop fast in private, he may be worth watching in the near future.

Musterer, a full brother to Boris, ran in two hack events at the Christchurch meeting, finishing outside a place in the first and winning the second. He is owned and trained by D. Roberts, whose luck has not been too good lately.

The clever punters who usually get on to “ dry” things, backed Contender, Bulletin, Lady Disdain, Sea King, The Needle, Claymore, and De Witte at Plumpton—three winners and three losers. They had their biggest bet on Lady Disdain.

Kilwinning and Whistlecraft have returned from their unsuccessful trip up North, but Flitaway and Thistledown will be racing at Hastings on the second day. Some of the Chokebore horses generally run better on the second day of a meeting, and may be worth watching.