CANTERBURY.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1049, 14 April 1910, Page 8

CANTERBURY.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) CHRISTCHURCH, April 12. Mr. G. D. Greenwood has decided to send a team of horses to Australia for the A.J.C. spring meeting. Armlet, all going well, will be the star performer, but the team will include some two-year-olds, and probably Danube. Husbandman has been a very unlucky horse since he won the Great Northern. Derby of 1909. He has run several good races since that time, and it was very pleasing to see him carry off the big handicap at Trentham bn Saturday last. What a wonderful mare Armlet is ! What a bargain she was at 500 guineas at the Stead disposal sale. Among her chief successes this season are the Challenge Stakes at Riccarton and the Thompson Handicap at Trentham, and the daughter of Menschikoff has been wonderfully consistent right through the season. When pitted against the best animals in Australia in the spring it is almost safe to say that she will worthily uphold the honour of New Zealand. There will be quite a number of Riccarton horses running at the Manawatu meeting this week. Flitaway will start in the Longburn Handicap, while Sharpshooter, Madam Madcap, Vice-Admiral, Tenterhook, and Danube will be seen out in the principal events. Cronstadt ran very badly in tooth his races at Trentham, and is not quite as good as his connections thought he was. This colt is a wellbred one, being by Stepniak—-Madder. It is quite on the cards that he will race better as he gets older. Ingoda surprised Riccarton people by her victory in the St; Leger Stakes at- Trentham. Prior to the C.J.C. autumn meeting the filly was doing excellent work at Riccarton, and as a result was heavily backed for the Great Autumn Handicap. In that race she failed at the critical point of the journey, and it was generally considered that she would not stay out the St. Leger distance. However, she won, and won handsomely, giving her popular owner her second classic race this season. Leonardo and Eurus are doing regular work in view of the jumping season. The former has already been tried over the hurdles, and shaped well considering he has been in retirement for such a lengthy period. Federal and Boutade have been sent home to their owner’s station, and will be given a lengthy spell. The pair have had a hard season’s work.