Notes and Comments

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 433, 15 August 1928, Page 11

Notes and Comments

Staging a Come-Back The aged Hal Zolock gelding Brutus staged an effective, if rather surprising, ‘’come-back'* in the mile saddle-dash on Saturday, when he ran the winner to a very narrow margin. A few seasons back, when under the care of Ben Jarden, Brutus was a good performer and was partial to saddle heats, of which he annexed several. Brutus may soon seize a stake.

Dillon Huon Winds the Watch Tight Dillon Huon proved that the opinions expressed in this column of his ability to reach the dress circle when the new season opened were no idle boast, and in tramping round about ♦•3O from a 4.38 mark, the Corrigan representative has climbed up the ladder with a vengeance. He will he on a stiff mark now, but there is no telling to what heights he will yet rise. Huon Denver Speeds Up The grey gelding, Pluon Denver, is ? rea Hy useful customer, and while ms prowess is generally admitted to De more pronounced when the weight * s on top, he bobs up serenely at intervals in the cart. When he won two-mile saddle event at the Canterbury Park winter fixture in 4.3 S 4-5, j ® Denver Huon pacer put up a strikt ? Performance, but on Saturday he sh* y this by registering a ‘-Qade over 4.29 for second money. What a little beauty Daphne de Oro is! Last season, as a three-year-old, she put up a record performance in collecting £2,247 in s *akes and registering some very smart times,over various journeys, •aced on a 4.30 peg, Daphne, the I?* time out in her four-year- ° j Care ? r » makes a great showing, and while suffering defeat by a Harrow margin at the hands of the Cp ack trotter Peterwah, knocks four seconds off her handicap, and furher reached the New Zealand Cup "lark by recording 4.26. Truly a 9 p eat filly. Jackie Audubon Continues his Jackie Audubon, who proved himself oft? orse during the latter stages 1 season just closed, was not °P enin S his account for the 4?i « r P ttin S year, and in tramping rant- 2 5 has P laced himself in the th« KS of the cla ssy pacers. When Ar. So P Great Audubon won the in T Con * Handicap at Alexandra Park h cH Une so in the fashion of to n5 mpion ' and it is quite reasonable not ? l l m ® that the best of Jackie has yet been seen.