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STORTING}.
The time ol Oarbine'a scratching for the
Australian Onp on Tuesday waa 1,45 p.m.
Muriel waa Btruck oat at 2 p.m.
The acceptances (or the A.RC. raoea on
Saturday promise a very good day'a Bport, but
np to the present there has been bnt little indi
cation on the part of ownerB aa to their inten
tions, judging by the betting market, aa there
was nothing doing at TatterBall's on Thursday
evening. The placeB in the Disposal Stakes
will probably be fought out by PABASITB and
The Dart. With a start in the Hurdles
WALLABY should about win from Deceit.
The Two. year old Handicap should be appro
priated by The ABAB, with Herod olose up.
STANLEY may win the L V, Handioap from
Milo and Qauntlet. The Steeplechase in th9
abeenoe of Prosper looks pretty_ open, but
ASHES with a stand up should win, with Ivo
and Redligbt in the places, unless Ooral and
Wallaby go out of the Hardies and are Baved
for the big jnmpB. The Flying Handicap
may go to Shootoveb or Gold Ring.
Although Borne few horses have taken their
departure for Melbourne^ the local stables are
well oooupied, and training operations are pro
ceeding Bteadily en the Old Ciurse as well aB
at Morphettville. Considering the time of
year the track on the Old Course is very good,
large quantities of tan having reoently been
laid down, and the tan laying is Btill being
continued to the extent of four or five truck
loads a week. The Britannia stables are full
with Shepherd's string and others, inoluding
Boonoke and Handover MeBsrB. Itoed,
Jenkins, Gordon. Ferry, Fitztoy and others
have their strings at exercise daily, and
there are Beveral newoomera amongst the
horses. The young trees and the flowers in
the grand stand paddock are growing apaoe,
and the flowers look particularly healthy,
Bhowing that James, the curator, has given
them Bpeoial attention during the hot aeason(
AmongBt the horses who are training satisfac
torily on the Old Course are Shootover,
Gomedy, Diamond, Norma, [Gauntlet, Gpldi
ting, Herod-, Boonoke, Arab, Cloch-na-Bien,
Clemency, Milo, Maelstrom, and others.
UmslopogaaB appeara to be going pretty
well) but it iB Baid that he * is
to' be favored with a spell shortly, and
that he tirill not be persevered with for any
forthcoming engagemanta. At Morphettville
the jumperB Ivo and Ashes are pleasing their
anpporterB, and the same may be said of Sea
spray and Coral; while Spindle ia improving
at the hurdle business, and the same may ba
said of Deceit. Old Stanley is getting into
buckle under Qainn's care, and Hill's team are
doing well. Tothill has several horaea in work,
and at least one of his should take a prominent
part in Saturday's proceedings.
The scratching of Carbine for the Australian
Cup has taken very few people by surprise,
because altbough he beat all oomara in the
Melbourne Cup with 10 st. 6 lb. on hia back it
ia only natural to suppose that weight and
distance muBt tell its tale in the end, and that
even BO grand a performer aB Carbine must
suffer defeat eventually if he has to oarry top
freight in the big handicaps. The va'ue of the
Australian Cup as a pr'za ia meagre compared
with the big cup in November, and iB
quarter of a mile further, so that it
waa bardiy likely that Mr. Wallace would
send him with this impoBt, when he would
have a better chance of again appropriating
next year's Melbourne Oup at the Bame weights
if he be taken care of in the interim, Thehandi
capper was fully justified in placing Carbine at
10st. 12 lb. although we know that every
pound above a certain amount increases in suoh
a ratio that the camel's baok is broken under
the extra feather. Mr. Barnard, how
ever, baB to consider many horses and
many owners, and the concensus of
outside opinion waa that Carbine would
receive a Bteadier in the Australian Cap,
because the Champion and Bome other weight
for age races appear to be at his mercy. Meloa
iB only carrying 1 lb. less than he ran aecsnd
with last year, bo that he mutt have a big say
in it. Tirailleur, the unbeaten New Zaa
lander, has yet to leave hia native plaoe for
Australia, whioh he is hardly likely to do when
asked to cany 9 Bt, 8 lb. in a first venture.
Cuirassier is a brilliant animal, as
he exemplified up to the turn for
the Btraight in the Melbourne Cap, but
he may have some difficulty in getting 9 at.
home at the end of two milea and a quarter.
The Admiral, 8 st. 7 lbi, is placed on the earns
line with Megaphone, and over the distanoe
Bhould be the more reliable of the two, as he
carried his Deiby weight to victory and ran
well up in the Cap. Crackshot and Correza
appear to be the two next best just below him,
then with a glance at Vengeance we find
Greygown thrown in at 7 at. 12 lb, This horae
may not win, but his reoent performances
have been such aa to BUggest the enquiry why
be Bhould be bo favored on the present occa
sion, On paper he is the most leniently handi
capped horse in the race, but it ia quite pos
sible that hia owner may nave some other
mission for him. Highborn, Enuo, and Pioneer
are amongBt the best of the lighter weights, and
it ia from those we have named that the winner
should come, with a preference for the Admiral,
Melos, Correze, Greygown, and Enuo. The
Newmarket Handioap muBt be a very open
affair until some idea iB acquired of the inten
tion of owners, but leaving over for the present
the chances of suoh horseB as CairaBsier, Mega
phone, and Greygown, there ia a quartet
of reoent performers in Teksum, Too Soon,
Glonatd, and Bungebah who Bhould certainly
be labelled "dangerous" for the six furlongs up
the straight.
An important matter to turfites was heard
and settled by the V.R.C. committee on Tuas*
day in the appeal of Mr. I. T. Caralake,
owner of Gladstone, against the decision of
the Moonee Valley Btewards in awarding the
Moonee Valley December Handicap to Granite.
The faots of the case are that Gladstone waB
first past the post in the race named, bat was
disqualified on protest. The ground of the
proteBt was that he had been iacorrectly
nominated. It appeara that the nomina
tion of Gladstone waa lodged without the
age being given. The age was inoor
rectly filled in by the printer The quea
tion turned on the point aB to whether
the entry waB complete without the age of the
horse appearing. According to rule 42 the
entry mnBl state the name of the owner and
the name or description of the horse, and the
age of the horse at the time of entry; but,
according to rule 45, in any entry after the
horse was onoe run on the V.R.O. aourse, it is
sufficient to enter him by name, without de
scription, It WBB contended on behalf of Mr,
Johnson, owner of Granite, that the age is not
part ot the description; but, on the other side,
it was stated that it waa. The Moonee Valley
stewards went very carefully into the case,
and by a.narrow majority deoided to disqualify
Gladstone and award the race to.Granite, This
decision was upheld by the V.E.C committee
and the appeal of Mr. Carslake dismissed.
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