GRACING NEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 54, 1 September 1926, Page 7

GRACING NEWS

(BY ''VEDETTE.")

i. Limerick's form at Rosehill evidently | made ;'a< big; impression generally_in Aus-.. i\ tralia., Now .lie is being mentioned-.as I *~-a possible stumbling-block tor Rampion by' ;] those who before Rosehill pronounced the ■:, Derby all over. Limerick was awarded top % weight (9.10) in a six-furlong handicap at * Eosehill last Saturday, but was not a -.« runner. Others-weighted.in the same-race i Were Royal Tea 9.5, Cimon 8.13, Reonui :..'■ 8.12, Berihthia-8.10, and' Subdivision 8.0. v Joy King is doing steady work at Rand- '•■ wick,.; but: according to Sydney 'writers-he v is not expected to be an A.J.C. Derby '' candidate. *i A .two-year-old parade is to be held at j; the Otago Hunt Meeting on Saturday. A ■f dozen or more juveniles are expected to J J>e seen:out.,; '- 's , . •. -'■ From a tiiae standpoint,- Cimon's per- * f ormance wai'.'-really better' than. that of 4; Limerick atptosehill. With .7.13 he' ean- ; >l.. tered home .in 2miri 26% sec against Lim- ';' erick'a lmin 40sec for a mile with 8.5. ? jlhat left 13% sec for an additional furlong, ? and that would not have cost Cimon, much ■• effort. 1 dt) not know -whether Cimon i jwill get a mile and a half under Derby I weight, but he is a colt that may be worth . r. kn. investment fox the Caulfield' Cup, in • ' which he has 6.7, adds "Pilot." *: The son oi Gainsborough,. Murillo^ heav- .£•' ily .backed for the Rosehill Handicap,, was j£ iiot a winning possibility at any part of ? Jhe'laßt'five.furlongs. He struck trouble " at the seven furlongs, but that was such a ';■ long: way frottv home that, if his chance •ji was' nearly.as-goodas the betting marketf, indicated, :he> should have subsequently ■i made sbme sort "of a showing. Coming on .>: .top of' Herilda's Warwick-JTarm _ failure, i. many followers of racing are querying whe■v ,ther /E; A. C.onnollyfs ideas of English *, racehorses suitable for Australia are going ■J> ,to prove any better than those of men less: to^make a selection. So far his .^s ■ English purchases have been costly. i' ; Runnymdde was-nasty at the barrier >•: in theiCarlingford, Mile, but, as he ended fr jby getting away well, his moderate die-, tj play, must have greatly disappointed his ■f: owner.;and ti'ainer, both of; whom credited iiin^ with a first-rate winning chance.' He ■>' was-ia 'a h'ahdy positioii" along the:'back, ;'! but was a long way. from tjje leaders at .': , A. New, Zealander afterwards -i- expressed the opinion that the Melbourne

'"» way of racing—left hand "iv—would be sure <$ -to .suit Runnyinedo . better than that in % New South Wales,' and when it is remem- '?,. bered/'tbat vie\-cut,.' across -,- jio: .the ■ .quter ;.' fence when entering the straight; in ' the' f St. Leger, there may be Bomething in it. ■;;.• During the next two or three weeks he

'■■■' may race at longer distances than: a mile, I: and until then; it might be wise to refrain 'i front say ing any thing for. or against hjm %. in the Metropolitan. On his mest recent i tunning it would be difficult to say much J< either way. . •j It is unusual in registered racing in • Queensland for the stewards to V recall ;: a horse from the barrier and change the

-.'. jockey. The officials who acted at the \- .Toowoomba; Turf Club's 'Meeting recently, !.. however, went, to such lengths when H. ■ ■v Young (of' New Zealand) was substituted' for'E^-Murphy as the rider of Sing Along i in the Tjiird rDivision Handicap. Sing. 7 lAlong firmed in the market, and won the \- race. ..* The'committee of-the Societe d'Encou- *• ragement, which regulates racing in .' France, has rescinded the measures imposed during: the war, by which horsss belohg- \ ing-to citizens T of an. enemy country were ; excluded, from French racecourses. ' ; The Aga- Khan, who breeds thorough- *, breds in Ireland, is going to sell a numj; her. in America each year. The owner j,'. named will race his Phalaris—Cry Help * 'colt as, Falko. This youngster .cost ■*;■ JBlOOgnsat the-Newmarketr-First' July • eales. The 4600gns Spearmint—White Lie . polj( has been named iCobra. He is, a brov. ither to Poisoned Arrow. J Edith Cavell is about the best three- ?• year-old filly in.America. Last month she' ;'■ won the Latonia (Kentucky) Oaks in the " easiest possible manner from nine others, • and, with 9.0, ran the mile and a quar- * ter in 2min 3sec. She adds to the many ',' good gallopers 'Iby -Man-o'-War, who is i' proving as great a success at the stud " as he was on'the racecourse. }■ la Perth recently a deputation from i the Breeders, Owners, and Trainers' Ab- ■ eociatiori" waited on the W.A'.T.C.' com- ,; mittee, and asked for apprentices' allow-, ances- to be. brought into vogue again. \ They--were- unsuccessful in their appli- !,' catiop. « According to a .outhland writer, J. A.' ; Rowlands had to decline to take Glentruin '■ and Celerity 11..,-owing to his stable be- > ing full. As Warhitven appears easily the ',' best of his team of eight, it is surprising V he did not make room in some way for.-a '." mare like Glentruin and her stablemate.

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