TRAINING NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 4066, 8 March 1876, Page 3

TRAINING NOTES.

Although at daybreak this morning the weather was very thick and threatening there was a good attendance on the course. For half-an-hour the fog was. so dense that a horse a hundred yards away was invisible, but it gradually cleared away as the su ’ rose. Trainers are now debarred from using the course for their gallops, but the tau is iu excellent condition, being carefully looked after, Harrison was first on the course with Eight Bower, who, after one or two preliminary canters, was stripped and went the fastest gallop he has yet bad. He went three times round, sweating a good deal, but pulling up lively. Seabird and the Merrimao filly. di«f walking exercise only, Seantrenss did not put in an appearance, but MonaShan had out Templeton, Fuugawerewere, Merry lonarch, Elfin King, and Steamer. The Monarch was stripped and sent twice round, but not at his best, for he took four minutes exactly to do the mile and three-quarters. Redisplays some disinclination to start, which fault he had better get over, as he will have no time to waste in the Cup race. Steamer went round three or four times, going stronger than hitherto. Templeton, Pungaworewere, and Elfin King were again taken on to the beach, where they did some fair work. Templeton went about three miles up and down. Elfin King accompanying him for a mile and a half, and Pungawerewere taking him rest of the distance. The crack showed no bad signs, hut he is still a very different looking hors© to what he was last year. King Philip and Rory O’More were treated to walking exercise only, this being their off day, so those who went out expecting to see a good gallop wero disappointed. O’Brien’s lot comprised Fishhook, Auckland Kate, and Haphazard, The last two went a two-mile and a-lialf gallop. Haphazard stripped, but the black marc had the best of it all the way. After Fishhook had been led for a quiet canter Derritt took him twice round at an easy gallop. The colt makes almost as much noise as Traitor did last year, and his action is anything but calculated to send him over the ground. He does not got his hind legs well under him, and I fancy lias never recovered from the spill he got in the rough paddocTc where the Napirr . races wore held lost month. With all the care and attention ho is receiving I don’t expect to see him show prominently in the Cup race, though some people are very sweet on him. Wee Lad had his usual gallop three times round, the little horse looking hearty and full of muscle. Kildare was out, but still does no fast work. It will bo seen that there are very few horses on the ground, and the Northern contingent are being anxiously looked for. It is hard to say what will come, so many have been the recent break-downs, The flying filly Amohia, who has been backed down to 4 to 1, is the latest i eportod to have gone lame, and at this rate of falling-off there will be nothing but Otago horses in the race. Pegasus.