NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 246, 10 July 1908, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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' pisborne;races wil'be concluded to-day.. . ■ ■ i; 'The; yictcirian ,'Grand National ■ Steeple ' j [chase will'be decided.at'Flemingtoii to-morrow,. aftcrnoom .' '. / v,V^i■ !' • The I :Eclipse Stakes' of ; \ i at;Sand6wh Park, England,'this .day: week.' L. H. Hewitt's patron,-Mr.: W.-Hall Walker, has Royal Realm and White Eagle_ engaged. . ;; ' Franklin, ,who ' appeared ;to-Haiver a l ' great 1 :i chance in the hurdles at Gisborne yesterday l ,' • .1 was withdrawn from; that: event,: and; started-' . . : | in.a fiat, race lower down.the,programme.;; v ,, ' The jumper 'Mauij who injured . his; heel ins ' : i his-first .run on the .'other .side,; is, entered. I for", a ; hurdle-race at'Caulfield next'week,,soy j that his injury, may not have ■! serious.. . ; . - •. • ■'■•••'■' .■■ ' i ■ The' Birkenhead gelding Erl; King , broke • • 1 1 down-in a''gallop on Saturday: morning,: and ' , ( ,will be;unaole to race again. for some con-- -i . - ; siderable time. ' - 1 " ' • . ' Prior to a' bookmaker, receiving a permit; t<i. . ■bet : on the Hill'at Flemington, he'.must.bc - ■ j guaranteed;to'the';extent 0f.£50 by--a;book.; 1 ' . maker; ■ already liconsocl by the Victorian. ; Racing Club. ' . .-,■ ■ ■ ' i • A promising'colt by San Fran—Amoureus \ broke. a fetlock at . Napier on Saturday, and •' ■ . ; had to be destroyed. . : : Aroha,--who won. the Trial Steeplechase'at- j Gisborne yesterday,. showed a. lot .of paco.on, , . the second.day of tbb Hawke's. Bay meetipg, "Vj .biit he b'ppled ! overat "tli.o,sod wall. . ■. ', l Boisdaie/oiio of tlie candidates in the big -j steeplechase :tobe . run ; at-Flemington to- ' - j morrow, has been doing exceptionally good ' ■ work'during' the. past couplo of weeks. ( 1 Tho aged gelding Phooka, which rail second . J iin-the Flying,' Handicap at Gisborne, isjoue, .. : of the.few. sons.of Robinson Crusoe that,a'ro . , now. racing. : ' : •, '' . . i ■Though ValiWa' will not be a starter in' .j the 'Wellington' 1 Steeplechase,., he- may. be " ' f brought to Trentham for the concluding day- | ; of the meeting. : V ' ' M According to a,Melbourne paper,- Ataahua ' has not fared too well since his arrival m , ; Melbourne. ;He was entered for the, Keilor . i Hurdles at Flemington last Wednesday, but evidently did not start'-" ' 1 ■ , . 1 Thb news of Cachuca's defeat at the' Vic- . ■' ..j torian meeting on ; Wednesday was/not alto-• • ', j gather surprising. The chestnut gelding, has a big icputatiott in Auckland, but-he is not -.' a'-good traveller,-and as he has .not had, too , much time t6 get over the voyage,, he would ;. ; scarcely:bpiin' his best,form. . . | • Spate, winner of the: Hadfc Flat race at' tlio Gisborne 1 meeting ; yesterday, is a Ml.aster. ' to'the steeplechaser Ka'ipetipeti. Her, victory. . . ; in' yesterday's event was fully - anticipated by ; her connections. . . neservoir has' prpved very useful _ as- a • jumper. Since the beginning, of; l'ebruarj ; he has.won four hack hurdle raoes, and will • ; in future be, raced in'open company. , , ' Hinetitama,, who. beat White , Lie-, ill the . . > Winter Oats at Gisborne, is engaged m tho , , Winter Cup with 9st.'.. Last/season .he won - . , •five races in and around Gisborne, and at. toe ; last'Gisborne' meeting in February, he. dead- , .; heated in tho. Final Handicap with Uenuku, who afterwards, won the Hawke s Bay Cup. ■ . , The Woodlands Hunt Club - has decided . ■ •• ' that bookmakers be allowed to bet at tho- . ; annual' steeplechase meeting: •at Pahiatua, next mouth, at a feo of five guineas. , ■ Mr A F Douglas purchased Bullworth at. j tho Auckland .Racing Club's winter meeting ; , ' ; and tho chestnut gelding ran bis first race/ for- his new owner' at Gisborne yosterday, • , being ; successful in the Gisborne Steeplechaso. ■, i it the same meeting last year Bullworth won . the- Trial Steeplechase, and this season at' , the Takapuna -meeting 'lie ran .second to bol, . iri tho Takapuna'Steeplechasb. He is . : 'in'the Wellington Steeplechase with 9st, db . j Should Fyne wm-tho Te .Hapar: • . . ; Steeplechase to-day,' it will be his third , sup • . : i cessivo-victory in tho race.•. " /■' - . WOODLANDS HUNT SLUB STEEPUEi . CHASE MEETINC. ■ ; •. .The .programmo' for the ■ annual steepltj-. chase meeting of the Woodlands Hunt Club . \ appears in this issue. The fixture is to take; , place 1 on the Pahiatua Racccourse on U ed- . • • , nesda'v, Augusto. Included in the programme • , are two steeplechases, a hunters ;hurdle race,. .: ■ j a hunters'' fiat' race,, two fiat races open to ; j hacks, aud a. maiden race for horses that _. ; , havo not won an advertised ; race exccedmg . - ( 3 sovs.' in value. All the events will be run j under tho New Zealand Rules of Racing; , Entries close with the'secretary,' Mr."W.;W; ... ' ;, ,1 Awdry,- at .Pahiatua on :Wodnesday next .at;,.. I 9 p.m.' - Tho" tdlepraplr oflicc at Pahiatua, ... ) closes at 8 p.m."; ' . ' . '. '