All Aged Stakes

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 630, 5 April 1929, Page 12

All Aged Stakes

AUSSIE OR GAY BALLERINA ? White Fang and the Handicap ONCE again the trek will fee to Avondale to-morrow and on Wednesday, on the occasion of the autumn meeting of the Avondale Jockey Club. All the conditions are favourable for a most successful fixture, the fields throughout on the opening day being of good numerical strength and rich in quality. The course was in excellent order this morning and will provide really good going. A review by “Early Bird” of to-morrow’s promising card is'given below. 1 1 9ft MAIDEN HANDICAP 11 Of £200; 7 furlongs Len .... 90 The big straight requires a certain Diamond • Loving Cub 8 (i . c , . Queen ... 75 Archileen . S 4 amount of stamina, and there arc- Car mint . 7 5 Katuscha .’.BO Quito a few of the score engaged Cat-i-mes 7 5 Measurer . . 7 7 • that have been noticed running on Oneivliero . . 7 5 Lord _ at the end of their races of recent; Catonian -75 Hopetoun . 7 7 weeks. Among these could be 3,Y nt iS us • • " 5 AHhana 7 I mentioned .Len (a,winner at Paeroa , j“ a l)ansa " t \ § Gold Lily'. .' 7 5 on the second day). Loving Cup Bonny' Lay 7 5 Merry Mason ' 7 5 (who may find the distance beyond Lady Eustace 7 5 her), Archileen, Katuscha, Lord Hopetoun. Arihana, OnewWfero. Catonian. The Dormant and Liona. The mere fact that fully half the fielh must be included in the list of possibles indicates that the race Is an open one, and so it is. It should furnish an interesting contest, for among the runners is some very promising material. When the bells cease ringing it may be found that bettors have favoured:—Archileen and Lord Hopetoun 1? 1 / AVONDALE HURDLES Of £250; miles Roman . The response from owners lias been very discwwA ■ 1 appointing for such a nice hack stake, but perhaps the Highflown 10 1 Cact that both winners of similar races are engaged Komak 10 2 frightened some of the horses weighted. This pair, Golden “ 'Roman Abbey and Clockwork, must be difficult to beat! Wedding . . 0' 7 and the danger to them may come from the promising Harbour novice, Komak, who was caught napping when he V iew . . ..94 crashed early in his race on Monday at LUerslie. It Bayly Damon .9 0 , must be remembered that the hurdles at Avondale are ■ different affairs to Ellerslie. Highflown is a nice jumper,, and Golden Wedding has schooled well at times, although a race or two mav bo required in hei%ca.se. Harbour View was unlucky to be beaten in a hurdle race on this course In the autumn, but in the meantime has done nothing Lot much is known of Baylydamon. One would expect the favourites to be: - Roman Abbey and Komak I*s FOLEY MEMORIAL HANDICAP * Of £600; 14. miles Corinax . . 8 S This event, the big handicap of Desert Glow 8 0 Bra I n.?on JUllet 8 1 da L is gone into more fuliy in Ealerltose ' 7 I Royal a special article. To reduce the High Pitch ’ 7 5 Doulton ..85 field by nearly half would leave in Queen Arcli 7 0 Park . 8 5 Corinax. Flying Juliet, Branson, Glen star'... 7 0 unite Fang 8 0 Royal Dpulton, Hyde Park, White Gold Money 7 0 Fang, Desert Glow and Eager Rose, and of these the latest form of Flying Juliet. Royal Doulton and Corinax. nee< * show a good deal of improvement to give them a chance, although the last named finished fourth in both his races last week-end and may be improved by those outings. No doubt the favourites will be: White Fang and Corinax 150 OAKLEY HANDICAP Of £250; 1 mile Good Boy . 9 0 Fortunately the field will not ex- Bizarre ..73 Star Comet 8 5 , , .... Catapult ..73 Frothblower 8 3 ceed nine or ten runners, which is Standfast ..73 Kawainga . . 7 13 quite sufficient from this awkwardly Gay Cockade 7 0 Grand Tea .7 12 . ~ „ , Snorts King: 7 0 Brampton ..73 placed barrier. Good Boy reads 1 5 well, and Star Comet, unlucky of late and consistent, would appear to have a royal show here. Frothblower is holding out signs of returning to his best, and Kawainga is just the sort of filly to win in this class, for her form in public reads almost good enough to enable her to account for this lot., Grand Tea’s Paeroa form was impressive, and it is in his favour that he will be racing at home. Brampton will be suited by the course and the distance. On the other side of the. handicap there are Bizarro, Catapult, Standfast (who reads best of this lot), Gay Cockade and Sports King. Summed up per the totalisator, investors may be found plunging en bloc for: Standfast and Star Comet ?9C ALL AGED STAKES Of £750 . 6 furlongs Aussie ... 9 10 Last year’s winner, Aussie, holds pride of place with Supremacy . 8 0 the maximum penalty, and it is extraordinary that his Eaglet eima 7 9 six opponents are all two-year-olds, a rather unusual Dais ton . *. *. 7 7 state of affairs these days Gay Ballerina and SupremPolyxena ..75 acy too have gained the full penalty, and Eaglet all but Motere ... 6 11 31b. Dalston and Polyxena are also to carry a little extra on the scale, but Motere claims the allowance for maidens. The race is fully reviewed elsewhere. What will exercise punters is to find the second best, and the results of their combined efforts may see these the favoured pair: Gay Ballerina and Aussie 9 Oft CHEVALIER HANDICAP of £250; 6 furlongs l 1 1 l! Outilde the half dozen at the top ; ; | » Air King . . 912 of the handicap they are a poor Myola .... so British King 9 8 lot, although some of those on the Orehus ... 8 0 Frothblower 9 8 minimum are promising and capable Sky - ~8 Bulolo ... 8 13 ~ , , . . * , Dayform ... 80 Take range .SO launching a surprise Black otranto. ..80 Bie Bertha . S 0 Maire is a good one, and he will welkne ...SO need to be to pull it off with his weight. Respirator is now apparently at his best, and he has to allow Black Maire 6£lb for a three-parts of a length beating last Monday, with Respirator perhaps the more susceptible to improvement. Air King will go fast and may hang on up the long straight, as he did in open company at Paeroa. British King appears to be nicely treated, Frothblower is coming back to his good form of the spring, and Bulolo is very fast, but may require a run to sharpen him up. Of the lot at the bottom Big Bertha, Haviland. Justify, Myola and Welkne are the most likely. The favourites may be: British King and Air King A 1A RAILWAY HANDICAP Of £400; 6 furlongs \allar . ..95 With no less than 16 engaged it is going to be a King Lu . . 8 10 Awarere . . 810 difficult problem for backers to solve. no doubt very Ladj r Quex . S 10 many will want to be with Vallar, but he has a different Subdivision 8 0 proposition here to what he accomplished last Monday, ■T* 1 ® 8 0 even if he did spreadeagle a better field on that occaRoyal S Tea* 7 8 sion. The scale of weights would appear to be altogether Chelone . . ! 7 6 to ° bus* l .and is all in favour of the poor lot at the foot Billikins .’ * 7 0 of the handicap. It was a pity Aussie was not entered Green to keep the weights down and, the rubbish out., Vallar Bonnet ... 7 0 has gone up 241 b, and he has now to meet several of whaka King 7 0 those he defeated last Monday on much worse terms, as Value ena * * - o follows: Lady Quex 141 b, Subdivision (second on Monday) Marble’ king 7 0 101 b, The Begum (third) 131 b, Royal Tea 181 b and Marble King 28ilb. On these figures, good and all that Vallar is, he is up against a hot proposition, and he will require matters pretty well his own way. Then there is fresh blood in King Lu and. Awarere, both of whom are in good nick and fit enough and endowed with speed sufficient to enable them' to pull this off. The latter galloped well at headquarters on Tuesday morning. Of the others Lady’s Boy should go well, and Chelone is fast but unreliable. Perhaps the public will instal as favourites: Vallar and Lady Quex C A TITIRANGI HANDICAP Of £250; 1 mile Stormy ... 9 10 With a comparatively big field of King Thursby . . S 7 1G left in the draw at the barrier Emerald ..80 Wenday .86 will be of paramount importance, ?*YS sell * o 2 Glenstar*™ 8 3 for an ything drawn more than half- Master * ' Hipo * 3 3 way out will need to be extra good O’Rorke ..80 Golden Krist S 3 to gain even place money. Stormy Owairaka ..SO Barometer . 8 o showed a splendid come-back at Bowman ..SO Cynthia N . S 9 Ellerslie on Monday, and it was Auriculus ..so obvious that his course of schooling and racing oyer the sticks had sharpened him up. However, he has to concede from 171 bto 241 b all round, and that will take some doing. Thursby could not be fancied on anything but a very soft track, and Wenday is much I preferred. Indeed, the latter looks nicely placed if she is landed fit and well j at the post. Ohinemuri begins quickly, and at a mile she is going to be a j hard one to head off. Glenstar failed to run up to form at Ellerslie, but this I event should suit him better. Hipo is not yet a spent light, and Golden Krist | would like an easy track. King Emerald has been galloping fairly well of j late, although he failed to show up at Ellerslie last Monday. Cynthia N is j not reliable, and Sir Russell is reported from Te Aroha, his new headquarters, j to be about back to his spring form. Lunette is a likely sort, and if a good rider is on top can be expected to run well. Master O’Rorke has run some j surprisingly good races this season, and Owairaka, a speedy galloper, is taking j on some good ones. Bowman, Barometer and Auriculus complete a difficult 1 field, and the last-mentioned would be hard if she could be prevailed upon to • do her best. When all is said and done the best-backed pair may be: Ohinemuri and Wenday