Notes from Stable and Track

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 208, 22 November 1927, Page 9

Notes from Stable and Track

COMMENTS ON FORM Stormy For Timaru Stormy is a. notable entry for sprint j events at the South Canterbury Jockey • Club’s meeting. Good nominations ; have been received all round, including i a large number of horses who raced ! through the Riccarton fixture. Childsplay at Six Furlongs I C. Emerson, who has ridden ChildsI play in her three races to date, has no j doubt that the filly will run out six | furlongs just as well as she lias done i five. Her next race, the Great Northern ! Foal Stakes at Ellerslie, is run over i six furlongs. ; Companion For Limerick F. D. Jones has put Zaragoza into work again, but it is improbable the Nassau mare will be seriously trained again for racing. However, she will be used mainly as a track companion for Limerick, and may possibly accompany the Canterbury crack to Sydney in the autumn. Takapuna Attractions Racegoers will be well provided for at Takapuna on Saturday and Monday. On the first day the Alison Cup, Cheltenham Handicap, Borough Handicap, Takapuna Plate and Cambria Handicap (for two-year-olds) are the principal events to be decided. May Not Start j When Kendal fell at the last fence ! in the hurdles at the Thames meeting Mast month, he received a nasty shak

ins: and as a result lie is a bit sore at present. It is understood that he may not contest the High weight Handicap at the Takapuna meeting on Saturday.

Count Cavour and Satrap * It is not surprising to learn that Count Cavour came through his racing at Ricarton without harm. The chestnut is nearly sure to go to Auckland with Satrap for a mate, and if Mr. J. S. Barrett does not receive some stake money with this pair it will be surprising. Both horses should be fitter at Christmas, especially Count* Cavour. White Fang at Hastings W. Griffiths has arrived back at Hastings with White Fang and will in future train the Gisborne-owned son of Polydamon and Natalite. This gelding’s last performance, when he won at the Melbourne Cup meeting over ten furlongs in 2AI, stamps him as a firstclass handicap horse. Later On Paleta has not looked over bright this season, even when he was racing well, but at Riccarton he looked even worse. At the same time in both his races with big weights he was prominent for the greater part of the journey. It may be the autumn before W. IT. Dwyer gets Paleta really right, and then he will be a high-class galloper. His Best Distance Grand Knight would appear to be really at h4s best at a middle distance, judging by his last three efforts. Earlier in the season he was raced over sprint courses, and being bustled in the early stages did not suit the English stallion, for he did not finish generously. In the Champion Plate and Stead Gold Cup he mustered up a great finishing run and in each race for speed was going second best to Limerick at the end. In the Jockey Club Handicap at Riccarton, if B. TI. Morris had shown him the whip only instead of hitting him, he might have extended Great Charter. Morris understands the English horse, for even when he was trained by S. Reid it was an understood thing that Grand KnieTit had only to be threatened and not actually hit with the whip at the finish of a race. Morirs was his pilot in those days. Imported Mare Mr. A. Chisholm, of the South Island, who had a prosperous time with the English-bred mare Glentruin, has evidently got hold of another useful Eng-lish-got mare in Celerity 11., who had an easy win in the Winton Cup < n Wednesday. Celerity 11. was sired by Gainsborough, out of Force of Gravity by Forfarshire—Gravity, being imported to the Dominion in 1925. Celerity 11. did not start on the second day. Son of Hurry On It is understood a number cf youngsters by Hunting Song are beingprepared for the Trentham sales, which

will be held at Wellington Cup time. As Hunting Song is the only Hurry On horse in New Zealand, the first of his stock will be viewed with more than usual interest. Another Trainer For Awapuni Albert Jackson, who for a considerable time occupied the position of private trainer to Mr. Frank Ormond, which a short time back he had to relinquish owing to indifferent health, and was in Auckland recently, has decided to seek pastures new. He leaves shortlv for Palmerston North, where he has secured a lease of the stables and house at one time occupied by T. George. Cartoon Recovers The Wingatui trainer, C. Christie, came North after the Canterburv Jockey Club’s meeting to inspect Cartoon. who has been turned out in the North Island since he broke down in the Wellington Steeplechase in July. Cartoon is making a good recoverv and he is to be shipped to Dunedin ‘bv a direct steamer from Wellington. ' A three-year-old filly by Lucullus from Lisp is being shipped from Wellington this week to join C. Christie’s team at *\ ingatui. The filly is a sister to Lutliy and a half-sister to Tholomon. 1

i Raising The Stand I It is understood that a movement is ! on foot to secure several life members I for the Dunedin Jockey Club at £SO I each, and so raise capital to complete I the stewards’ stand. Hastings Work-outs I On the outside of the course proper • at Hastings on Thursday, over six fuv- ! longs, Epistle giving away a stone, beat ! Hypnotic comfortably in I.lß*. The; I former mare looks in the pink, even ; being in the fashion of having her mane shingled. Charmaline finished strongly at the end of half a mile in 52£. She is booked to race next at Feilding. Purseproud might have done better for his six furlongs in 1.25. The big Polydamon gelding, since his last race, seems to have lost a great deal of bis pace. Sandburr. although taking 52* for half a mile, did it easily. He is not engaged at Ashhurst, but a horse with a similar name, Sambur. is. Queen’s Choice and Essential ran seven furlongs, the last six taking 1.20, with the former going best. Royal Damon made light work of a mile working gallop. He will take his place in the Ashhurst Cup, despite the dissatisfaction of his party at the weight awarded. Tom Byrne went well over four furlongs in 52*. Will his Ashhurst running prove Waipawa form all wrong? The full-brother to Huikai is a bad traveller. Torquil. with the Absurd filly Dark Girl for a companion, sprinted half a mile in 52£. Butterscotch was restricted to a six-furlong working gallop, running the last four in 53*. Clarendon, by himself and not extended, did half a mile in 53*. Tins colt, being of the gross kind, will do better on racing. Liaison beat Marsu.rd over three-quarters of a mile in 1.20*, going away from the Absurd filly the last half-furlong. Minter beat Royal Court over five furlongs in 53 1-5, b it it was not until the last bit that tne elder horse got the best of matters. Abisogne was of little use to Royal Time at any part of five furlongs, run iin 65. Raasay, never at top, went three furlongs in 40. This was his first run along since Wellington. Topere and High^Society proved quick learners at the barrier for their first trial at it. Monetize at the end of two rounds* slo-sv work brushed over the last furlong in Hi.