NOTES AND COMMENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 182, 22 October 1927, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

SQUARE-GAITERS AT EPSOM SOME GOOD—SOME BAD Caterpillar has not improved in his breaking habits and on each ■occasion he covered a lot of the journey at a galloping gait. This, on the second j day, cost him a second prize and his j supporters a dividend, while owner Berkett found his finances further reduced by five pounds for not endeavouring to pull his charge into his correct gait quickly. Coming Back Old Tradesman gave a lot of cheek in his race on Saturday and was with the leading division for three parts of the journey. When the son of First Voyage began to show signs of distress lie was not asked to do the impossible and finished several lengths behind the placed horses. On Wednesday he was well supported and beat all but Trampfast, who was made to go 4.30 to top him off. Not Too Solid Royal Bob was not solid and it looks as if he is a gone coon at the racing business. On Saturday he looked to have a chance in the early stages, but soon went to the pack and finished well back. The son of Lord Roberts will find it fairly difficult to win any money unless the company is very ordinary. He was lucky to get the thin end on Wednesday. Young at the Game Carberley did not make a very impressive display in liis efforts on either day, but it was no more than could be expected as the son of HI Carbine is young and inexperienced and lias a lot to learn about the racing business. His owner-trainer, C. G. Lee, will sure be rewarded in the days to come for his interest in this young trotter. Not Without Hope Red Dennis is no oil painting but he has a fair amount of pace if he could be persuaded to use it to the best advantage. I-Ie is not by any means an impossibility and when the country fixtures loom up the son of Marvin Wilkes will get a stake. Not Improving Wild Lad does not improve with age, and there seems little prospect of the Ashhurst owner-trainer, C. Oliver, making a fortune out of the Wildmoor gelding. There is no disputing his pace, but his galloping tendencies will always keep his supporters poor. There will be a wild night for the faithful few whenever Wild Lad gets home. A Proper Tartar The Tartar proved a real tartar each day, and the well-bred trotter would not give of his best. G. Paton could not get him to go away decently, and when he did decide to put his best foot forward, it was only in patches. Unless he improves in tactics quickly, he will be costly to those who are intimate with him.. The See-Saw Style Peter McKinney is a regular seesaw kind of trotter, up-and down alternately. As far as pace is concerned, he has a good store-house, but turns the tap on jerkily. It may be the grass does not appeal to the son of Petereta, but in any case his see-saw tactics have been in evidence at Addington.

Stick To Sister Sister Beatrice continues to make play in her efforts over two miles, but the last pinch in her present company finds her wanting. The Hawera-trained mare will, however, find it easier one of these days and those who stuck to her at Alexandra Park, will be sorry if they let her slide. She must be close to it now. A Real Horse Young Blake is a great trotter and despite his failure on the concluding day at Epsom, will soon be heard from again. He did not go away on Wednesday with the enthusiasm that marked his early work on the opening day, and this made it impossible for him to retrieve lost ground as the race was run at such a solid clip. Never Rose to the Occasion Roez did not give a very convincing display of trotting, on Wednesday, although she was no worse than the great majority. Her friends were somewhat fortunate, however, as the mare was bracketed with the solid and consistent Bluewood, who got up from the back mark to pay a dividend. Roez will require to do a whole heap better to get the wherewithal to purchase oats.

The Star of Hope Gold Star did no better,% and no worse on Wednesday than he did on Saturday, but neither essay was anything to enthuse about. The Gold Bell gelding has not been long in J. T. Paul’s hands and no doubt when the Mangere mentor knocks the trotter into shape his star will be in the ascendancy. A Nut Worth Cracking Wild Nut made a creditable showingin the free-legged event and there is every reason to anticipate he will crack the shell before long. In his class, the Nut Ansel gelding will make the best of them scamper and Geo. Webb appears to have found out just how to treat the old square-gaiter. Little But Good Petroleuse is not very big, but what there is of the Petereta mare is good. She ran a genuine race, with the unhoppled contingent and was somewhat unlucky to strike Tiger Salve in his new clothes. The little mare was hard at it all the way and there was no disgrace in her defeat at the hands of such an old general as Tiger Salve.

Right and Wrong Anseline is not an every day mare. In her track work she was going great guns and trotting like a bock, but when it came to racing, it was a different story. In work the Nut Ansel mare could not do any thing wrong: in her races she could not do anything right. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but when Gee’s gee-gee goes right there will be nothing wrong with the dividend.