NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1926, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(BY "VEDETTE."?

if" RACING FIXTURES. /tafwnbcr27, December I—Takapuna J.C. YJOfember SO, December I—Feilding J.O. .December i —Uethveo B.C. D#dember 4—Taumarf uul R.C. Deepnber 8. 9-Woodville District J.C. December 10. 11—South Canterbury J.C. December 11—Waipa R.C. December 16, 18—Dargavllle E.C.

Handicaps for the first-day at WoodfiUe are due on Friday. The first Friday in December is the day .on which entries close for the Manawajttu Cup Meeting and general entries ■re due for the Auckland Summer MeetQuite a smart field of jumpers should be, seen out in the Waituna Hurdles at Pending. Jinkumai has a big load in t?.:TI, and he in opposed by one or .two ■mart horses with handy weights. Gaunt,ktshould be.'well tried in this field. If Resinous is a runner in the Trial Plate at Pending there is no doubt what will be favourite.' ~ Bame few month* ago one or two of thfc (porting writers in the North were Wnring the praises of, Stormy. The Quin Abbey gelding was patiently awaited, but eluded them by being shipped to Sydney. That there was some justification for the good things written about him he has ■hpwn by his record in and around Sydney. The "Sydney Morning Herald" comments as follows on Stormy" b most recent victory at the Boblaroo Meeting in the' Newcastle district:—The victory of thfe; New Zealand gelding Stormy, in the Frying Welter Handicap, his third win in three starts, marks the son of Quin Abbey ag;;a performer of considerable merit. That his party had unbounded faith in the. horse as a great galloper was shown bjr;the fact that Stormy was brought out of^the Novice into, open company in the ewent, and well backed. From a good start Vermont was the first to show out, ■and when fairly'settled down the order wan: Vermont, from Stormy, Quadrant, Mshonoy, with Spooning and Lady Cynosuije at the rear of the field. Coming roand the bend Stormy and >.Quadrant doied in on Yennont, who led into the straight. At the Leger Carmont, on Stormy, took his mount to the front, and had little difficulty in passing the post haU a length in front of Quadrant, with Vmnont four lengths away third. Stormy .at&ed 8.7, and ran the six furlongs in Imin ]«B4eec. White Fang was handicapped at 8.4 wjfh Cawnpore at 8.8 in the Flying Handicap run at Bandwick last Saturday, in which White Fang was narrowly beaten ly^ Orient Princess (7.0). In the Shorts, nm on the second day of the big meetiijjf at Rand wick, Cawnpore carried 8.0 iafc> third place .behind Calmest 8.2 and Golden Voice 7.12. The Hawk was topw«sgnt with MA. Borne idea of the AJ.C. handicapper'B estimate of White Fang can b«*sained from thexe figures. - JJew" Zealand horses weighted in the Perth.Cap, of 2500 soys, two miles, run on^lrt: January, are Los Ambus 8.0, Phoennc Park 7.8, and Kilreid 7.2. LilyponU is'iopiweight with 10.1; \. $be ' two yearlings purchased, during New. Zealand. Cup: week in Christchurch foe Australia were for. Mr. A. J. Levin, tfcg owner of the Victorian crack two-ymz-oid Eustori.. ft wfiuld be hard to find a better or more accomplished rider than T. M'Kensrie, one of Melbourne's foremost pony jockeyi, and who has been singularly buccoßßfnl recently in Sydney, says the "Referee." He won the Ascot Cup on 23rd October on Ilka, and several other events recently at A.R.C. fixtures. He h»d the mount on Uka in the Flying Handicap at Victoria Park on 13th November, and the. mare was at a fairly long price. For some reason or other the stewards found fit; to change the rider, and replaced him with A. Stanton. One of the stewards accompanied Ilka and her attendant back to, the sheds, where she Ms unsaddled "and re-saddled, and also undid the gear when she returned to go out with Stanton on her. The steward also ordered her throat-lash to be length-