NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 424, 5 February 1909, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

■5 |T3y Glencob "1 , : The - Gisborno Racing: Club's, meeting will be concluded to-day. r to-morrow, 'tho'Middle Park Plato, for two and • three-year-olds, = will- bo decided. •Contender ran;yet another,.second it", tliii Canterbury-Jockey Club's-meoting yestorday: .-. .Pony /owners -are .reminded ;',ihat. accepts ances -.for .tho two v pnncipal. events :on tha hrstiday. ofv the -Wellington-Pony, and' Gallo-' way Racing. Club's. February meeting close at 4. p.m. torday ,with; the: secretary, Mr;': J. M. Gumming. :,Broadsword,. winner of tl}e Great: Northern Epal, Stakes, will, in all probability, be given another -- run >. in ■ the - Middle; Park Plato t'®--' .as::wyij.as''' JrisyHi^^ sword's .winning performances", and his .second good •colt,, and ;;f. ; he thas-a-good coiites^;;^-^-:.:^^^ ;'Profn, Mr., A. thoroughbred -. horse, -Tho Officer (Rabmson .Crusoe—Marie - 'As a." twoand:; three-year-old t. in.^Victoria;' - The 80. woiv tno V.A.T.C. Debutant Stakes; -the , Caulfield . Guineas.. (beating l Newhaven) and : hayon)i and lie- ran ;second to /Newhaven: In 1 the;. Champion:..,stakes-,:and,the,&;J;C. ,St":: liegeK' ; ;At j the'.-; termination/' ;^of^ career he was purchased ,bv the Hon;- J.' D Ormoncl' to-do, duty' at tbe Kafamu iStiicl, ■ but the curso\of-.the..Noi 9:family was on- him, and .though ; ho had - e-\cel]enV opportunities he" was never , more than- moderately successful as ;a - sire, and after a few .seasons :he was 1 8upplanted : ' at: the' 'EaramuVStud by;Bir- V kenhead'.v-'Mobility '(Auckland-:Eastef" Handicap), Lyrist:(Wellington Autumn Handicap), 'Pull Rate,,The'Stake,.;Medallist,'!-and.-':Gauze ; wero .'about the best of i his:' ..srt-bek. - During ■ the. past■ seyeh- seasons ■ his sons aiid- daugh-t-ers nave ; .woit' about £15;000. ia-. stakes.'