THE CANTERBURY RACES.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1341, 15 November 1872, Page 2

THE CANTERBURY RACES.

[LTTTELTOif' TIMES;] s - The Cup again -this :yieir: was, by.thp knowing ones, after the Scratching of Peeress, considered quite a certainty for ?; Yatterina^ the other mare of her new t owner Mr Walters, who thought: iherv quite good enough to win it againßt any, ■ thing in it without. Peeress, and in thigV case, as in many others where the pot is heavily put on, it boils over.: Not that she started first favorite with any but her own immediate friends, as Detractor yesterday morning came up in the betting, a: and was backed to win the Cup at 6 to 4. Yatterina, . the evening before, was the favorite. Tambourini, from some cause or other, was not at all fancied for this, after the defeat of Malice in the Maiden, as everyone thought the stable must be : misled in, their calculations, which turned ~ out to be correct. Lurline was not mugh thought of, being always obnaidergd no| so good as Tambourini, but was observed "^ by the Druid some week or teri. days ago; ' to, be superior to him in a gallop, and h^ - consequently made her his tip for thise Detractor we never considered anything but a second-rate horse, and he was much, out of his company alongside of Jjurline, who had him all the way, and we feelsure had Beere3B been in the race the ; result would have been the same— Liirline' winning easily by several lengths in "the same time that Peeress won the Cup from. : Knottingley last year. After this day's' performances we must say we consider '. her thebe'st filly in New Zealand, as alae } ? carried 51bs over weight, and was far from fit; moreover, in taking her prei liminary, she bolted; with her jock, being stopped with great trouble" after she had gone' some distance down; the road for home. Yatterina, from the -starts never ''' showed in the race, and was pujjed up when'she had gone 1| mil^a." ! ' ' - -*yv The ; Derby was cbtlsidereli stich a dead ' ! ' l certainty for Mr Nos'worthy's "stable i after '" the running of Lurline in the Cup,' that' it" ; was quite impossible to get any odds against either of them, as Lurline prdyed. :., herself a mare of no uncommon merit Jin 4 ' the Cup ,and all who saw them, ddrmg " their training knew there was scarcely any difference. This must be a most gratifying fact to their owner, \fh.o unt-, doubtedly- possesses twp of the' best fijlie^; tl^at haye ever stripped on. a New Zealand course, and which must, if they improve as they grow older, be found fit to send to Australia, where we are sure they would command a vasfcamo'unt of attention and prove a source of great profit to their owner. Lurline could not fail 'if not too heavily weighted, to run well un- ■ in the Melbourne Cup, if not win Jt. af ; f> we did riot consider sfre wals ' at all' extended in the' Canterbury. Cup on Wednes-. , ? r day, I arid in the Derby yesterday both Calumny and herself ran dean away from r all the others. Lurline would undoubt- ? edly have won it, if desired by her owner, ■ her, -jock having the greatest difficulty ij\ : : : keeping;; her back to allow Calqmnyto, • win, according to order^. Awatea, as our ! correspondent foretold/ turned out a regular duffer, never bein? in the race at all after the first quarter of a mile ; she 1 is only a flash in the pan, and seeais to ; go ' a great pace Alongside of a tussock ' Dragon is one that, we certainly did ex- > pect to see better placed ; he appears likehis sister, to have no pace, and ia quite a' v different animal tft wJiat we should px- : pect frqm old ladybird. As far an appearances go the two-year-olds lately ob'ine"^ down from N^kcm anght: to.be good ones. • and we should advise our aportingmen to make a bid for. J?apapai as he ia •fine*

looking colt, and being out of old Waitnea ought to have a good show for the Cup", next year and the Derby, for .which he is entered. Elate Kearney, we most confess,' ran tnuch better than we expected to see her. She ia rather a nice looking mare, and showed signs of pace, which, next year, she may turn to some account.

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