SPORTING NOTES.

Shannon News, 21 March 1922, Page 4

SPORTING NOTES.

A Napier writer says: I am pieaseu to learn that Roy Reed is making good progress towards recovery from the recent accident he met with while riding Epitaph in his work at Ngatarawa on Wednesday week. The injury to Reed’s head was so severe as to necessitate several stitches, and he also sustained a sprained ankle as a result of Epitaph falling on him after she had negotiated a fence. Those who saw the accident state that Roy

Reed had a miraculous escape from j death. We understand that Epitaph I was none the worse fqr her fall. I Arguments as to the‘relative merits I of Carbine and Eurythmic continue | to excite considerable attention hi I Australia. “Beacon,” of the Mel- J bourne Leader, writes as follows: I Racing folk are ever ready to “bow I down and worship the rising sun,” J therefore it is not surprising that on J Saturday —if not since—the Euryth-1

mics outnumbered the Carbines. Per-1 sonally, while granting that Euryth--1 mic is “the horse of a century”—the J twentieth century—l cannot sub-1 scribe to the view that he is a great-1 er,~ or even as great, as Carbine. | When Tie equals Carbine’s Melbourne J Cup performance, I shall ungrudg- j

ingly hand him the palm. Carrying! 10.5, and with a bound-up foot, Car-1 bine beat a horse like l Highborn, who, j with only 6.8 on his back, had been | tried to be almost unbeatable. Caw j bine not. only beat Highborn, but had-I the race won three ■ furlongs front J

home. Highborn, 1 the horse to whom I Carbine gave 3.11, and nearly three | lengths’ beating, a few months later | had won,four good races, including! the. Sydney Cup, with 9.3. Though I staying was his forte/ Carbine was I

good over all distances. As a three-1 year-old Carbine, with 8.12, ran third! to two great sprinters, Sedition and I Lochiel, in the Newmarket Handicap, I and finished within a length of the winner. The same week, with 8.6 only one pound less than the older horse’s weight—he was jnst beaten by Lochiel' in the Australian Cup, and

then easily dawned Abercoxn, Melos, and three others, over three miles in the Chanmion Stakes. Carbine, the

some season, carried The reeord weight for a three-year-old, 9.0, in the Sydney Cup* Approaching the home turn, Carbine was nearly knocked down —his nose touched the ground. Entering the straight hei was at the [ tail of the field, yet wiith a brilliant > run he ! got up in time to beat J to whc.m he was conceding 121 b, a * head, .with Abercorn, one of the great- » est horses' that has graced the Aus-

tralia n turf, two lengths: away third, I with 9.4 on his four-yoai'-old back, f Whs f a magnificent performance lor I a tlaree-year-old! Before wildly <s- | ser ting that Eurythmic is “better th-an Carbine,” admirers of the freak ; horse should qarejully peruse Car- } b ine’s - record. Reverting to vthe fu\A mrity Stakes, is it not possible that

j we are over-rating Eurythmicls perI formance It was really a ffvelter > j race. Every horse with" any preten- ?, sion to “class” was penalised close up | to the- winner. In iac.t, Eurythmic v was meeting them all on better terms r than would have been the. case had J the race been a handicap, and there | J was no “dark horse” cl;aiming all the V ! allowances in the race, a such as Come- £ dy King was, when, with 6.7, he dc-

l feated Maltine, 10.4, by a length 3 Amythai is reported to> have trained 5 on well since return ho Trentham, J and will contest the Ttfentham Gold % Cup at-the Wellington lj.acing Club’s y meeting on April 1.