THE AUCKLAND MEETING.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 230, 28 September 1929, Page 11

THE AUCKLAND MEETING.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. PINK COAT AND KOI DE VAL . ARRIVE. Pink Coat arrived from the South this morning to fulfil hi'* engagement in the Great' Northern Guineas. Last season he was one of the best two-year-olds in the Dominion. ;He only started on five occasions, winniuf; the Shorts .Handicap, five furlongs, ki Oainaru; the Dunedin Champagne Stakes, the Middle Park Plate at Riecarton, and the Cliampagne Stakes at Riecarton, while he was.only beaten by half a length in the G.J.C Challenge Stakee by that good sprinter Silver Paper, the seven furlongs being cut out in 1.24 4-5. Last Saturday he made no race of the Farewell Handicap, six furlongs, at Asliburton, and will keep Eaglet busy. . Roi De Val arrived from the South this morning, and went out to Avondale, to join S. Reid's team. He is engaged in the Plying Handicap, seven furlongs, on Saturday next. Roi de Val has been racing a good deal more solidly recently, and has a win and two seconds to his credit in his last three starts. A splendid field numerically is left to contest the Great Northern Guineas, 19 remaining in after final payments were made yesterday. Eaglet has not been beaten, in her four starts this season, and her victories include the Wanganui and Avondale Guineas. She will, however, be meeting a tough one in Pink Coat, who has only been beaten once since he commenced racing last season. Supremacy has been paid up for, and if he were at his best he could be expected to play an important part in the decision of the event. Hunting Cry and Roundelay are engaged in the Hawke's Bay Guineas' this .afternoon, while False' Scent hm run two good races in the Wanganui and Avondale Guineas. Altogether the race promises to be a most interesting one. RercHioana is among the acceptors for the Flying Handicap at the Auckland meeting next Saturday. This horse showed at Wanganui that he was-return-ing to form when he ran third at Wanganui,.only being beaten by a head for second place. Reremoana should be an improved horse as the result of hie recent racing if he is started in this event. Great Charter, who is due to make his first appearance this season at Hastings to-day, is among those engaged at Ellerslie next Saturday. Great Charter was a good three-year-old, but last season only started on four occasions. and was placed in two of thorn. J. T. Janiieson has both High Finance and Poiyxonr- engaged in the Shorts Handicap at Ellerelie next Saturday. The former had her first race this"season at Avondale on Monday last, and led into the straight, so that she should not be long in getting on the winning list, for there is no doubt that she is very fast. Polyxena was one of the best of the two-year-olds last season, and. would only need to have gone on the right way since to have a good chance. ■' ' ' ~ Imamint is in the Welcome Stakes at Ellerslie next Saturday. This filly put in a great'finishing, run in the concluding stages of the Avondale Stakes, and got within a neck of Lineage at She will be much harder to dispose,of the next time out. , ... .' ■'■■ ',■