SPOTTING.

Otaki Mail, 15 April 1922, Page 4

SPOTTING.

'A* Sydney cable: states' that Solfaudio was defeated by Sunpore by half a length in the Flying Handicap of six furlongs at the Mai)angle races. The New Zealander had every chance coming down the straight. The time was IJL3I. After being worked at Biccarton on Monday morning, the well-fancied Great-Easter Handicap candidate, Silver Peak, was slightly lame. It is understood that Tamatete ran his last race for the present season when he won the Manawatu Stakes. Thero will be racing at Feilding, Auckland, Riverton, Wairarapa and | Taupoka to-day. Eigktcenponce, who is by Nassau, j cut himself very badly on a barbed wire fence at Ricearton on Monday. Anrythas is now out in the paddock : at Foxton. Mermin is reported to be doing well and will probably be a competitor at the autumn meetings in Sydney. Depredation, who has had a season at the stud, was noticed doing troii ting exercise on the Ellerslie tracks I last week. • The telegram containing the nominations of Mr W. I. Lovelock's team.to: the Waipukurau autumn meeting was received too late, j Inah is pleasing critics by her efforts lon the Hawera tracks. She will ac I company her stable mate, Roman, t> Feilding-

Though Sunny Loch has been paici up for in both the Great Easter and Great Autumn Handicaps, the opinion prevails locally that the latter' will be his special mission. Tis track work bears out this impression, and he is particularly well. Birkennose, a fine cut of a hunter, is now being trained by J. D. Morris, at Marton. The Biccarton trainer, F. D. Jones, has sent Radiac home to his owner, Mi F. S. Eastou, of Foxton. There will probably be only three runners for the Great Northern Oaks. Radiant Light was left in in error. All the horses belonging to the estate of the late W. J. Douglas engaged at the C.J.C. autumn meeting have been scratched. The North Island horses Gold Problem and Tiranna are to race at the autumn meetings on the West Coast. Three well-known performers on the flat, Starland, Mangamahoe and Killard, figure among the acceptors for the hurdle race on the first day of the Auckland Racing Club's autumn meeting-