GLOAMING RETURNS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2493, 14 October 1922, Page 4

GLOAMING RETURNS.

TRAINER DISCUSSES FORM. “Three cheers for Gloaming !” They were heartily given by two thousand people who lined the Queen’s Wharf at Wellington yesterday, when the Ulimaroa arrived from Sydney (says the Dominion). Gloaming, swinging in mid-air, put his head over the rail of his “float” and peered inquiringly down at the crowd, as who should say: “Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings me home?” Greenwood’s string—Gloaming, Cupidon, Tressayr and Farceur —were quickly surrounded by admirers. When R. Mason, their trainer, descended from the gangway, he was greeted with cheers also. It was a pleasant home-coming, tinged with a little sadness. Close around the three-year-old Farceur gathered a little knot of sympathisers, who remembered the colt’s accident on the Randwick road when he shied at a motor-car and injured his leg, putting himself out of action for the spring meeting- “ They are both good horses,” said Mr Mason, discussing the form of Gloaming and Beauford in their four meetings, at which the honours were even. “When both go to the barrier, it is a case of the race going to the one with luck in the running.” Asked for his opinion oil the comment by Sydney critics, that Young, Gloaming’s jockey, was beaten, by superior horsemanship in the third raxie, the Randwick Plate, Mr Mason said ho was not Impressed by it. “The public wanted us to take Young down,” he said. "If _we had done so, and Gloaming won the next race, as he did, the other jockey would have been regarded as the best in the world, and Young tho worst. As it was, we were thoroughly satisfied with Young. He was lying off Beauford’s flank at the turn into the straight in tho last race, tho Craven Plate, and beat Beauford home by three lengths. There must have been some good horsemanship about that. It is a case of nothing succeeding so well a.s success.”

Cupidon shaped very well in the mile and a-quarter race at Tattersall’s meeting, said the trainer, but had very little luck. The public thought so much of his running that they made hint favourite for tho Metropolitan. He had too much weight in that race, and finished in the bunch in a big field. Tressayr started three times, and got a second and third. He ran well in tho Derby, but did not stay, as he was not too well. Gloaming won £3200 and Tressayr £l5O at tb.e spring meeting. Among returning sportsmen on the Ulimaroa were Messrs W. 11. Greenwood, W. G. Stead, W. J. Donovan, and two jockeys. George Young and Ashley Reed. The following records of winnings compiled to date are interesting : Stakes won. Races. Wins. £ Eurythmic 40 28i 34,066 Gloaming 51 44 31,714 Gai-bine 43 33 29.626

Oetignc 82 19 27,206 Poitrcl 37 15 26,920 Desert Gold 56 36 23,133 Trafalgar 59 24 22,111 Snsnnof 63 20 20,770