SPORTING.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 May 1918, Page 3

SPORTING.

OABD-WOT6KBB SACBItS Ifil MIGHTY CARBINE. Xb# prftWMWI •£ the Englishbroxi Ammm l*«*i«# *fe the Australian Jocko/ Olub'i reeent autumn meeting, ta aojaiMwtfac tk« Autumn Stakes, Sydney o*3, Sl»Wrl«a<l Stakes, and A.J.O. Plate, run respectively on each of the four days over which the Eandwick gathering extendede, has, I notica (write* "Phaeton" i n the Auckland Herald), been made the medium of special prominence; Sueh a performance, of course, entitles Lanius to be ranged in the category of hard-work-ed racers. At in other respects, however, when records are in evidence, grand old Carbine can be placed prominently in the picture, for on three occasions during his career the bay son of Musket and Mersey was called upon, to contest five races at meetings extending over four days; and this searching task, it is worthy of remark, was twice exacted from him when i!hr©e years old, at Flemington and Eandwick respectively, within a few weeks. A 3 my readers may readily conefaid©, to contest five races ' in a fduß. ftay»* programme a horse would have' to, run twice on one day'of the moottngi AH Flemington, in the autumn of, 18.8% Carbine won the All-Aged Btafre**, fond mile) and Loch Plate (TVo nrße*), on the same day. and he .folloewd this up at Eandwick in the fallowing month by winning the AllAged Stakes one mile), and Cumberland Stakes (two miles) within the space of a couple of hours. At Eandwtbfe, *» the autumn of '9O, Carbine wott tk« whole of his five engagements the samo including the Autumn Stakes (11 miles), Sydney Cup (two miles) ' All-Aged Stakes (one mile), Cumberland Stakes (two andA.J.C, Plato (three miles) which stands as the greatest record associated with the A J.C. ground