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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 52, 18 October 1890, Page 2

" Mentor ~ writes i-—The CauffieldCup, which is run to-day, appears very open, and should furnish an exciting contest. My opinion is that Loyal Stone- (7-0) will just get home in front of Little* Bernie (7-8) and Pygmalion (7-9). From the training notes in the Sporting Standard of a recent date, the following appears i: — " Megaphone's action when galloping is 'the poetry of motion, 7 he swings along so gracefully. Carbine put in hie appoiutment— long, gentle pacing - as if he were perfectly aware that he will be expected to acqurf himself something more than respectably on the first Tuesday, in November, even with the 4 crusher' of lOst 51b on his back. He presents the appearance •of being one mass of condition, and the gentle manner in which he trots up tb his- trainer to receive, the handful of grass which always awaits him after he concludes hie exercise is a sight worth witnessing^ Were 1 Mr Donald Wallace, the. wealth of the Indies wouldn't buy him." The defunct Sword Dance was represented . for the first time on a colonial racecourse at Napier on Tuesday last *; but his daughter, Thame, did not add lustre to his name, as she finished last in a field of three. There is a suspicion (says "Augur"); that Gatling is a bit fainthearted. The fastest New Zealand record for amile is Im-. 42 l-5e., which was accomplished both by Ravenswing and Chudleij»h.. The Melbourne Stakes, which is run at weight-for-age oyer a mile and a quarter at the opening day of the V.R.C. Spring Meeting, has. not urifrequently^ furnished a line as to the winner of the Melbourne Cup, and from the following list of nominations I fancy thafiny readers will find two placed horses in the Cup- *.— Carbine, Megaphone, Enuc, Vengeance, King WiL ham, Chaldean, Pygmalion, Prince Consort, Tantallon, Gresford, Prelude, Riche*f lieu, Singapore, Whakawai,VNeWmaster, Oakleigh, The Spot, Loyal Stone, Plenty, Marvel, Little Bernie, Melos, Qorreze, The Queen. - Twenty horses _aye been left m for the Maribyrnong Plate, amongst which are Mr,W. R. Wilson's Auckland-bred trio— , Steadfast (by Nordenfeldt— Nelly Moore) Lady Carbine (Nordenf aldt— Mersey ), and She (by Nordenfeldt— Steepe). % Mei>bour>e, October 16". '■" ' Some splendid work was* done this? morning. Sfgnapore . beat Dour Giovan ■in. & mile and a half spin.-' Carringtonr and Tarcoola shaped poorly.. Titan, Prince Consort^ Sir William anil Tantaloon finished in' the order named in a. •■ mile etnd a, half gallop, the time of the leader being 2min 48sec Gresford and Prelude did the same distance, in 2mm 51|sec. Gibraltar moved beautifully with Papua over a mile and a quarter, while Carbine could have run clean away from Megaphone in any portion of a mile and a half, covering it easily in 2min 50sec. At Caulfield this morning Leopold badly beat Cuirassier in a mile and a half gallop in 2miii 49aee, but pulled up slightly dotty in the forelegs, rldttle Bernie left Maggie behind oa era mile and a half in 2min 50sec. V G r naroq covered a similar distance with, good weight up -hi 2min> 51see^wbjle "Whimbreli-wbo also had a heavy weight np, put a mile behind in lmin 50sec. Churchill proved ioo> much for Ivy oyer a mile and a quartern l ; Ot-oberl7. Training Notes — - Rain and showers fell at intervals, during the morning, Singapore, moving remarkably well, strode over a mile, the last four £ lirlongsln -d_4*. D*n Giovarit did two improving turn* on the ..tan, and Highborn executed a sterling two mile gallop, the last mile and! five furlongs in 3m. 2s. Oakleigh. did good work, and lie must have an outside show for the Caulfield Cup,; fori waieh The Australian tips Tourbillon or Bernie, Singapor-, and Py.maJio'n,. : The Leader tips Churchill, Pyyuialion, and Tarcoola. TheiSportmin's tip is Ernanl. S'one, and Leopold. The. Weekly 'fimei spots Pygmalim, Leopold, and Bernie. The Press Association tip is Stone, Churchill and. Bernie. " t • Marvel has been scratched for the Cau.'fiold Cup. At the Yictbrian Club Rooms to-night good business was don<» over the Caulfield Cup as follow : -100 to 16 Pyg ma ii 0 n ; 100 to 10 Singapore and Little Bernie j 100 to 9 Churchill, Bothwell, and The •febunte ; 100 to 6 Loyalstone ; 10# to 5 Tarcoola, Vengeance, Leop'l I, Rich Ruby and En ie ; 100 to 4 Sir William ; 100 to 3 Chintz and Carrinsjton t; £