SPORTING.

Otaki Mail, 11 October 1922, Page 4

SPORTING.

GLOAMING, THE BRILLIANT. (By Phaeton, in the Auckland Herald.) ! It has been said that Carbine was the best friend the sporting journalists in these lands ever had, this being based on tne fact that ibis racing j career furnished so much "copy.” J Well, Gloaming must be regarded as ! a good second to the celebrated Mus-1 J ket horse—at least so far as New Zea- j i laud is concerned—when the situation J • is viewed from a “copy” standpoint, j ) By clipping the wings ol Beaulord in , I tlie decision of tiie Craven Plate in j such decisive style as that narrated j in the cablegram detailing the con- j ■ test in lire mile and a-quarter race, I Gloaming would appear to have con- j clusiveiy settled the question oi superiority so far as'that particular dis-'j tance is concerned. 1-Tom the fact 1 that Gloaming romped home in 2min : 4sec, it seems pretty safe to conclude ) ; that, had Beaulord been equal- to. ohal- / Jeuging seriously The Welkin gelding | in the conclusing stage the standing j record (2mm 3 l-iisec) might have j been equalled, ii it were not beaten, j It was Gloaming’s fifty-first race when lie set out to contest the Craven j Plate at Hand wick on Wednesday last, i and his record now reads as follows: j I.in- i

TUI'. GIiKAT WINMCIiS. Gloaming having .succeeded in niaU{mg ,-ui important addition to liis winI ning total in his early-spring efforts, j which places him in second position, | such serves to invest iiis prospects of i catching tip to ICtirythmic with very j considerable interest. Tiiere are not Sol course, the valuable weight-l'or-age ' races in New Zealand as in Australia, Inti still Gloaming is on such a safe i {wicket so lilt as the vast majority ol

those events nee concerned in this Dominion that liis total is pretty sure to si tow n further considerable increase Indore the second term is through, and then there will be tlie prospect, of Ids being set to make another assault, on Australia when the autumn season rolls round. In the event of liurythmic winning t lie six weight-for-age races set down for decision within the next month at Flemington and Caulfield respectively that would mean swelling Kuryihmie’s total by over LTibOb: and should ' such materialise, Gloaming's chance of catching up to his chestnut rival would tie made more remote. The following is the statemem hearing on the performances of the great horses that have figured on the Australian and New Zealand turf: Races. Wins, stakes won

| 1st 2nd 3rd un- | placed. | At 2 years, Did not race. i At 3 years 13 ■> (l u At i years 6 1 0 1 I At j years 13 0 0 0 I ? At ti years 11 1 0 0 1 At 7 years 2 (» 0 I ] 44 6 1) 1

r-'.i uy 1 tunic: in 284 /; 1)4,066 i iloamin^ 44 31,714 Ciirhinc 43 3:1 00,606 < 41 i<fiio S3 10 07, I'nill'Ci 37 15 06,000 Doseil Gold 36 36 03,133 'I'm falffar 50 04 00,111 Sasariol 63 30 00,770