NOTES.AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 754, 1 March 1910, Page 9

NOTES.AND COMMENTS.

_■"'■.: [Bt GlekcoeJ The Wanganui Jockey Club's meeting cakes place- on. Thursday and Saturday next;- , ' ,: ' ■ . '". ";'; ~ ' : " C. Pritchard ■ leaves for, Wanganui to--day with Rangikapua, -Na'umai,. and Hydrant. . .', -, . ; - . At Bombay on January 15, 'the New Zealand-bred Chivalry : won a. six furlongs race, and was credited with cover-i lag: the distance"in.:lniin. 14 2-ssec. The San'Fran inaro'Splash is iniprov- , Jng. with age; and in the Shorts Handicap at-Woodville she-finished right up beBind the placfrgetters. ."•.-■■ ■- ■ Mr. J. ,S. ; ; Tluine ■ has purchased Chau»elm from Mr, Lance Wood.' TheiSoult colt will remain in W. Davies's stable. Purakau would appear to have gone light off-after the Pahiatna meeting, as week he finished well back in both -his races. T. Pritchard.will ride Hydrant in the hurdle events,-'at Wanganui. Tho.chest-' nut is making, a reappearance after sev-' eral years' absence from the track. . 1 Bo 's er " purchased Miss -Abbotts Flying Cloud after the Taranaki meeting last week:: •"Mγ. Bolger" is the owner of-Prophet, who won the Second , Hurdles;itNew: : Plymouth. ■": ■ _B. Young will ride Lady Luoy in the VVanganni Cnp", and A. Oliver will have tho.mount on Milan. Other probable jockeys: will.-be;, Diabolo, (C. -Jenkins), Hoqseveltm Gray), Lady: Medallist (C. JJrown) i: 'Osiris (liwe), and Uhlaudo (J • iljVa). .;: -'1 ' -: -' : . - : ■ . The ■jTrentham horseman, ■ W. Eyan, rode ; three winners, at the Dimedin meet:ng; and-.is just now riding at the top of his form. A , little success always impro.ves.a. jockey's, horsemanship,-as it teaches- him to ride with confidence, and he,is then less likely to lose races by' being over anxious and making a rnn too At the Palmerston Police Court yesterday morning-.(telegraphs .our correspondent), Clarence O'Neill, horse trainer was charged under the. Masters' and Apprentices Act with failing to discharge bis duty to JohnJU'Lean an apprentice. Mr. Thomson, S.M.;. decided that the boy was not. an apprentice under the Act, and dismissed the case.". . ; : When lie arrived in Wanganui on Saturday night, trainer J." H. Prosser found that all the feed that he intended bringing .-up withhim was, through some carelessness.of the Railway Degartment lEft-somcwhete down.-tile line, and "he vtas put to a deaV of-inconvenience through the mistake; ■ ■ ■' •

w Tfln l? an > has hcen stationed at New- Plymouth for some months past jovr-,-w said to bo just, about .rea<ly,:f.p , r.. fast work. He is a daily visitor, to"the beach.,,;'- " ■■,'■' ''L-c-'---' '«.oii--A Press Association telegram. ; "from Waiißanm states that the following horses' have made the , . , 'final . payment\. for the Wungamu Cup; one mile "and-.-• threequarters -.—Diabolo,, Bst. 61b.;-.Roosevelt, Bsr.; lady Lucy, Bst.; Milan, 75t,101b.; ladv-Medallist, 7st. 81b.; Sedition, 7st. 41b.; Osiris, 7st. lib.; Waitanu, Cst. 121b.Konu; Gst:- lllb.; Outlander, . Dst; !)lb. ; Uhlando, Cst. 81b.; and Xamjdorff, Gst. 71b. By the manner in which he accounted for the Reid in the 14.1 handicap at Victoria Par!; on January 19, Jlerrie Oliver UcraonstrnlaJ.'niat his victory in .a similar class of race at Ascot a fendays previously was no: accident (says a Sydney paper). Sea Pet and Egypt turned for home at the head of the field, and tevpt was 111 front, at the distance. Memo Oliver there made a good fun on the outside, and, though seemingly inclined to shirk it at the finish, heat ligypt.honiD by a length and a half. ■ The Soult pony Frederick won. , the principal handicap at Victoria Park Sydney, on Ffibruarv 19. ■ -. • The Victoria Racing Club's meeting'will be continued at Flemington to-dav, when the Australian Cup, two miles 'and a will be run. The ex-New Zealauder Delaware is anions those engaged, mu no horses owned in New Zealand are included in the field.

loseidoii is among the entries for the Kaivson .States at lioschill. and as he. is moving along nicely at Eandwick .tho probabilities are he will fulfil his engagement in that race. Ho appears sound enough at present,- but ho has yet to experience the strain of a really trying gallop. His last run was in the Rawson brakes at Tattersull's meeting at Randwick 111 September, 1908. ''•'-■ ■ The-stewards of the National Hunt Committee in England havo issued a notico of jumpers running under their, rules, in which it sets forth that parsons who run horses in a race simply lor schooling purposes will be severely dealt with. In England, as in Australia (comments a Sydney writer), there are probably a fair number'of owners who ivould resent the ingestion of their horses being "stopped," but, on the other hand, do not think it wrong to have them trained in public.