THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 308, 17 September 1918, Page 3

THE TURF

THE NEW GALLOPER GLOAMING'S WIN AT RANDWIOK. Sydney, September 16. The "Daily Telegraph" says:—"Gloaming's win iu the Ohelroßford Stakes was one of tho most striking displays of galloping ever seen at llandwick. He , behaved somewhat unkindly at the post, and loßt some lengths by Elippiuc: when halfway round, but from that point Jie settled down to work nicely and assumed control before the horses readied tho home turn. Onco in tho straight he left the others as if they wcro standing. It ■was a remarkable performance, as Gloaming is understood never to have beou in a racc before." No one was more plea-sed at the form shown by Gloaming than the handicapoer (Jlr. Daly). He called on Gloaming to concede weight in the Novice Handicap to a number of horses who had some and Gloaming was promptly scratched. Mr. Daly took the view that if he was ■wrong in estimating Gloaming s ability, it waß better to spoil hie chances in the Novice Handicap than weight him in a way that would auite spoil the race if his' estimate of this galloper proved correct - ,t T.he writer in the "Telegraph speaks favourably of Gloaming's Derby expectations, and adds: "Apparently Gloaming had not given any evidence of his remarkable galloping powers when the entries closed for the Epsom, Metropolitan, and the two cups, otherwise he might have got into one or more of these roces in a way that would ha.ve been'a nightmare to tho weight-adjusters."

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fRT GMWfiOS.I The experiment of closing the acceptances early seems to have oeen a success in the case of tlie Egrnent Club, and big fields have been paid up l'or in the various events to be run on Thursday. Wapping was unable to start at the DannevirKe Meeting owing to a slight accident. His owner hopes to have Uie chestnut gelding right in time for the Otaki Meeting next Monday. ' Mr. K Short, who has donated the racehorse Hasiie to the patriotic funds, intends' racing the gelding at hiß own expense until ne is disposed of. Auy pronis are to go to the funds. , During M, Gardiner's absence in Auckland the sprinter Hyginas is under the care of the flawera trainer, J. Fryer. ±tyginaß is to fulfil his engagement in the Tawhiti Handicap, six furlongs, at the Egmont Meeting on Thursday, At Trentham on Saturday the two-year-olds Solfanella and Moluihi were spurted three furlongß, and the former, who had an advantage in woight, seemed to do going the better at the finish. J. Lowes other pair, Ohaeronia and Royal Exchange, went two furlongs, and the Demoßthenes filly had slightly the better of the gallop. Menelaus and Mascot were given a wonsing gallop over seven furlongs, and the Chip winner was going easily alongside of the mare at the finish. , 80-Peep, Active, and Devotion set out for a working gallop ovor a mile. ±ne firßt-named was beaten off, and the other pair finished together. .. The Marajax filly Yioletta went, half a, mile with Philomela, but the pair were not asked to do their best. , Battle Song pulled up sore after a miie aallop with Justification. . Matatua and the other members of Pritchard'B team were on the tracKs, but they were not aßked to do much. Sunburst, the chestnut son of Boiiiform and Hose Petal, has been off the tracks lately. He lias been in physio, d. M'Laughlin intends racing him and Eed Signal at the Masterton Meoting. & private letter from Bydnoy states that J. O'Shea has 1 recovered from his lecwi mißhap, and is riding work on the tracks a We an Waveriey trainer, M. Gardiner, is now located at Ellerslie with Calais and the two-year-old flliy Arati, by King Bufus -Oondainino, who. olaims an engagement in the Avondale Stakeß. . „ Writing in the "Australasian, a conespondont solidly declared that there are only two places on earth that are fit to breed the thorouirlibred-Now Zealaiul antl Vtiffiinil In tgdlvldk to tills AUiroj, of tKydney ''Mail," retorted: Jo generally get something like that after a New Zcalender wins a race or two here. Desert Gold Is responßiblo for that foolish statement, as Noctmform and co. were for similar remarks some years »ROAccording to some Sydney critics, Biplane may not be at his lest to meet Desert Gold at the A.J.O. Meeting, and is hinted that there is a possibility of his missing Kandwick altogether, tackling the Caulfiold Stakes on the day that the Rand wick Plate iB run at the A.J.O. fixture, following it up by contesting tho Oaulficlfl Oup a week later, and then taking on the woicht-for-age races at Flemington. T&> V:A.T.O. has distributed a further £77M to patriotic funds, making a total of (states a Pross Association messaze from Melbourne). _ A Press Association telegram from Invoroargill states that in the. liandicaps for the Geraldlne race ® u ™ a "J. a ., B9t -J' was omitted from the Belßeld VTelter Handicap.