SYDNEY TURF NOTES

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 9

SYDNEY TURF NOTES

PRESTIGE DOING WELL

(From "Vedette.")

SYDNEY, March 16

Randwick has brightened up this week with the return of the best horses from Melbourne. J. T. Jamieson's team were among the first to come back.

i While Limarch and Mirnmond appear to have done well, Closing Time is far from being as bright as when* he left for the south. He had some hard racing, and apparently it has taken the steam out of him, at least temporarily. Limarch raced unluckily. Miramoud has changed in appearance into the1 staying angular type. He has pleased his trainer, and should be one of the most useful of the team later on. Jonker looks well enough, but raced poorly in Melbourne. Panjandrum is very blight, and ready to go on with his good record.

Of the stay-at-home team nothing looks better than Prestige.. This filly is bigger and much more robust than she was in the spring.- There are few more solid juveniles about.

Mr. Fred Wilson, the A.J.C. handicapper, and who was in Melbourne, was not particularly impressed with the three-year-olds, but he considers the two-year-olds of the season above the average. With

'. April 13, I"—Feilding Jockey Club. [ regard to the three-year-olds, he exeepts, | of-course, Peter Pan, Waltzing Lily, and ! Kuvera, and thinks the St. Leger a forei gone conclusion for Peter Pan. j Peter Pan continues to go on the right way at Randwick., F. McGrath hurried back from Melbourne on Saturday night to take over his champion. The colt is | going now like the good one he was in the | spring, and even if he is not asked. to j carry 9.0 in the Sydney Cup, he should add to his reputation in other races.

Chatham' has been ' definitely retired. His wind infirmity has become very pronounced, and his owner and trainer, Mr. A. X Blair and F. Williams, after a consultation^ decided to terminate his racing career. He is to be sold at Easter with the stipulation that the buyer must not attempt to I'ace him.

Rogilla' reappeared at Moorefield last Saturday, carrying 9.6 in the open sprint. He. collided with Lady Joy at the start, losing all chance, but he rattled on in fine style, to gain sixth place. This week he has worked well on the track at Randwiek, and the racing iind galloping have improved him remarkably. Lough Ncagh, a rather surprising weight-for-age winner at Randwiek in the 'Spring, finished second in Rogilla's race. Lough Neagh has arrived from Brisbane very fit and forward. He should soon be on the winning list. \

P.-Riddle served up a hot favourite at Moorefield on Saturday, and again yesterday at Rosebery, in the four-year-old filly Progressive. Why she should be favourite for the principal races each day was something of a mystery. .Some excuse was offered on Saturday for her apprentice rider, but A. Knox did his utmost on her on Wednesday for a close fourth. W. Cook is back in Sydney after his trip to India. He commenced riding at Eosebery yesterday, but failed to strike a winning mount. He is enamoured of possibilities in India, and states that the Australians are all doing well. He has a great opinion of! the New Zealand-bred Karapoti, who, he believes, is the best miler. in India.

Antique had his first Sydney outing at Rosebery yesterday in a six-furlong flying handicap, with 9.5. He drew the rails, and naturally was cut off early, thereafter not being sighted. He looks to have done well, but his 9.5 in the Sydney Cup indicates how he is going to fare in handicaps. , -. . ■' , ,:.-

A speedy 14.2 pony who ran a promising second at Rosebery yesterday, Little Judy, is by the Winter Cup winner, Kuhio. She resembles her sire a good deal, and without doubt will pay her way. ■ • 7 ■

The Tonbridge mare, Gipsy Fate, all but scored in a desperate Rosebery Handicap yesterday. She was the winner until she was half-headed on the post. It was a great race with seven of the ten runners spread across the course af head and halfhead intervals. "