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With une appearance of the Huce Programme, public interest in the Autumn Meeting may be said to have taken a fresh start, Already no doubt many owners have run through the list of the various events to see where best some of their ive may be placed in order to give them a possible return; and the owners Of the acknuwledsed cracks have possibly picked out their pins and commenced to count their little chickens Lefure they are hatched, he Programme, taken asa whole, is an attractive one, the changes that have been made in the posi the card vf some of the events being dee better and calculated to ensure larger fields wud bette sport. It seems doubtful however whether the reduction in the Criterion of the Sweepstakes to Tls. 10 with the addition of is. 50 to the added money will have the desired effect and draw the large entry and the big field which is hoped for this formerly popula race, With ay many valuable eng: during the three days, all the rately pulled out to fight for supremacy so early in the meeting, na was formerly the case when possibly they were raced with Jess judgment than now, or owners were not ssu afraid of knowing the worst at once. he Tibs, allowance to griflius in the Racing Stakes should 1 race a popular one and ensure a better entry and Letter field, numerically speaking, than was the case last autumn, when only eight entered and four started. "Still, quality was well represented, and a race between such a quartette as Eust Wind, Red Lobin, Strathaird and Tajmahal would always prove of much interest and the result doubtful.
The Manchu Stakes is properly speaking secund Consolation, though it comes before its old established rival; and while it is likely to prove a popular race with owners, I do not like its terms, and am worry to nee it in an Autumn Programme, In the Spring—essentially a griffin-meeting—being for beaten griffins only, it has perhaps its raison détre; but it seems out of place with its present conilitions on the present occasion. When I mention that such old and tried ponies as Hualuchan, Hurricane, Sirocco, Amethyst, Dunkeld, Repeater, Helms, White Knight, and Privilege could be kept for it, being qualified without going further to the post, the main consol-Atory objects of the race seem defeated, Tuterest and speculation seem to have settled, as customary, on the Maidens and St. Leger, and a few words specially on the latter' may not be out of place, as it promises to be an unusually interesting and speculative race; more 80, perhaps, than any since Kuo-pw-ch'ti, judging from the number of thuse backed and that have an excellent paper chance. Montezuma is first favourite, as he was bound to be after his brilliant "Spring performances, and has been backed at the short odds of 5 to 1, notwithstanding his 10-Ibs. penalty and that, as yet, he has not had a good yalop. Sti he looks so well and is so undoubtedly good that it lucks as if it were only a question of health, condition, and a hard course on the day, for him to be a6 to 4 chance. Pillager, Dunkeld, Foxhound and Hualachan are rightly considered his most dangerous opponents, and were it not that both the last named have been and still are more or less wuder suspicion they would be backed at short prices. The lattot has a large following, and will be well worth backing if he be brought sound and well to the post, his brilliant race with Dricing Clow!
the Keechong Cup in Hongkong not having been forgotten by those who saw it or by Mr. Ten Broeck who rode him How it was contrived to lose the Hongkong Derby with him is one of those mysteries 80 common in racing. Pillayer seems to have summered well and is now in very good order. He has only tu keep so lo have a great chanco of following in the footsteps vf Prejudice and laud his legal owner his second Leger. Dunkeld at 10st. ib. will take his own part in the race, and havin, such a pull in the weights might score what would be a popular victory, and a profitable one for his owner, who does not disguise his fondness for the big one's chance. Fushowst (lias been almost brought round, after having had at feast two feet in the grave, and has only to go on improving make that tie in the turf market which a return to his fine griffin form would warrant, Repeater has been relegated to the ranks of comparative outsiders, his stilty way of going having very unfavourably impressed every ous. Outsiders that are likely to be backed if they keep well and might take a prominent part in the race are White Knight, Sw-et Briar and Eu But little is known of the lotte never mentioned and has not been backed, but should be danzorous even with his Tib. penalty, the distance hying to his liking. No doubt before the day we shall hear of him. Lurriere and Huntsman will no doubt figure in the entries, but better will he found in their stables to represent their owners.
One feature will be that Mr. Bill will have riy old pony to enter, and the inference to be drawn from the sale at low figures of Music and Harmony is that he must have sume tine long distance Gciflins kept over, with which he will attempt the iticult task of overthrowing the old ponies that have been publicly raced, At this stage of the training it is too early to speak of autumn purchased Griftius in connection with 1] miles, but there are several likely to develop into good stagers and to secure what pruinises to be a largo field. As however they will have to be exceptionally good to have even a chance of beating the cracks, I think that any ove putzingatrifle on their clinics of Montezum Pillager, Hualachan, or Fozhowwd will have no cause for complaint on the day, Toth Sept, The mornings at the se have this week been employed in trying Autumn purchased griffins and in the finding out of weak spots in some of the fancied old ponies, for Pillager has momentarily succumbed toa slight sprain which has confined him to walking exercise and Hualachan is again on the sick list. Neither of them are considered serious cases as yet and both are expected to come round. Foxhound and Dunkeld having galloped in anything. Duta satisfactory mauuer have experienced an Irish rise in the betting, but they will return tu favor no doubt when in better condition to do their long work properly. Beyond these incidents and the increased firmness of Afontezuma nothing of note has transpired with regard to the candidates for the St. Leger, for which race Montecuma now looks better business than ever and promises to start one of the hottest favorites on record. As Geheimniss and Shotover met their Waterloo in the shape of Dutch Oven at Doncaster, 20 may he here, but at present nothing has shown up to threaten his position, There are the usual number of good and bad griffins on the course, but the work of weeding is going on rapidly, perhaps too much so to give some of the ponies a chance. Tue lottery of selecting and buying grilins on the present system has been well ex. amplified this autumn, for not one of the high priced purchases have turned out well and careful buyers who limit their offers to a reasonable sum and are not led away by a flashy appearance, a free cncky bearing, or by firat impressions, have all the best of it. The pick of the Autumn aritlins seem to be Mr. Kelly's White Horn, Ins. Smarty's dun, Mr, Fornando's black and Mr. Fungus' Piferer The former and latter have been the first favourites, but as the others have fairly galloped themselves into public favour it would be difficult to say which now holds the pride of place. They have all great speed and all move remarkably well. It remains to be seen which can best carey weight and stay, Mr. Troy has a very taking white, Thingummy is a fine pony, but blest with a bad temper, If cured of his eccentricities he will be heard of by and bye. Mr. St. Andrews is numerically strong, but does not seem to be otherwise go, though but little is known of his ponies.' Pretty Frames is a very fine mover and though much fancied by his connections his condition is so poor that training him will perhaps be found a matter of more than ordinary difficulty. Grifins kept over from the Spring, though they have rarely managed to pull off the Maidens, are usually very dangerous, to wit, Generu!, Hotspur, Marquis Pose and First Trumpet, that have of late years run second. Lsejrim was an exception, for he managed not only to win the race but added the Se. Leger to it, " feat previously accom plished only by Skyte and Pit Zing.
Phe kept over di this Aatamu is an unusually st Me, Bill has Sulmaviser, Diss nan Moderato, Symphony, and a long svi un xd ones to choose from.
As it seems now to be pretty generally aduutted that he duesu't keep @ lot of ponies through the summer for the fun of the thing of for the pleasure of looking at them, it is to be presumed ity has several that have satistivd him; in which cave he will be as dangerous as liv generally has been in the autumn.
Me. Henry has Zucubus and Pellan, bub the latter is of no use for three quarters. The former is credited with some fast trials in the spring with Ihite Knight, when he played second fiddle. His style of going is very bad and nippy, and while iv is dangerous to go against the watch in Ching, without that powerful ijuuet to racing, no one would ever Kerfoot has a flyer in a skewbald, he will not, it is positively atated,
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