ASSEMBLY SPORTING NOTES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2391, 1 December 1881, Page 3

ASSEMBLY SPORTING NOTES.

GENERAL REMARKS, [By the Peiae.] The near approach of the Important day, when the majority of the acceptors in the Assembly Triennial Fixtures will have to be content with defeat, Is causing unwonted activity in the various stables, and with the object of forming a more accurate idea than has been hitherto possible of the chances of the various performers, I have made a tour of the various stables and racing enclosures in detail, and their vast number has made the task a protracted one. I first turned my stops in the direction of the Stanmore ground, and this fixture threatens a hot contest, the friends of each stable doing their level best to ensure pulling off the stakes. In this connection I need not say that Bob Eleepain is making desperate efforts to turn out the little black French horse Polle Farine in something like a semblance of condition, and not content with information and advice to be obtained locally, the telegraph has been kept going continually on bis account; but it is useless. The injuries he sustained at the Far Away hillside meeting, added to those he received in the Hay meadows, when |he staked himself badly, will tell on him. These, added to a very gross habit, and groggy in the pins, and gone at the knees, leaves me no alternative but to place the The Puffer (as some of the boys term him) os last in at the finish on the day of the race, that being exactly the same position as was occupied by him on the Peninsula course, when he was beaten at the 1874 Assembly Quinquennial meeting by Old Sailor Boy. I also saw Billy Pattens, and I am glad to report that he is “all right,” sound as a bell, hearty as a buck, and goes through his work with every satisfaction to his trainer, save a little trick he has of shying. This was particularly noticeable on the occasion of my visit, when an old French chiflionaire (or rag picker) attempted to cross the coarse. Bat when he gets accustomed to the foreigner and his rag bag, he will care of his infirmity, and, I believe, bar accidents, I shall yet ball him the winner of the first Stanmore Steeplechase. Of the other performer for this event, Peter Plat, I wish to speak In terms of commendation. He is working hard, and if he had only the rare turn of foot possessed by Billy Fattens, I should thiuk he had a chance ; but he baa not, and therefore I still adhere to place him as second to pass the judge’s box. Prom Stanmore I proceeded to St. Albans, and the first to catch my eye was Old Mawworm. ;He appeared suffering somewhat from the effects of his last public performance, when the don horse beat him hollow for the

Selwyn Triennial. He is still too much on the fat side, and, despite all the care bestowed on him, I anticipate a defeat is in store for him. The latest nominated horse for this event, Banco, I am afraid, has not a show; but time will tel). He was not at work on the occasion of my visit, I also saw old Tramoar. who looks very pink, and in whom I look to find the winner. I hear his trainer has got into trouble for exercising him on the first day of the week, bat I do not think tt e big chesnnt will lose any friend* on that toore —seeing his condition is first rate, and the other horses are not fit to hold a candle to him. To him I feel justified in awarding the pride of place on that eventful day, as he is tough, wiry, and not new to the work. I shall give my ideas of the acceptors for the other fixtures In a future note.