NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 881, 29 July 1910, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

ffli UlencoiU W. ,Young and S. Eeid left by the llararoa last night for Christchurch, to fulfil engagements at the Grand Kational meeting. The Porirua team for Eiccarton will leave on .Monday night and will consist of sis horses, viz.: Waione, Tauira, Lovell, Pakau, St. Felix, and Bourbon. Waitoke, the winner of the Trial Hack at thu Hawke's Bay Hunt Club meeting, is stated to be a promising filly. Being by Waiuku, from Ferret, no fault can' 'bo foand with her breeding. She is trained by the ■ ex-cross-country rider. D. Watt.

Taldiiurst, the second horso in. -tile Hunt Club's Steeples, won by The Chief, at Hastings, on Wednesday, would have easily scored in that event had he not run off at the second fence of the double, an obstacle which Oakley, and Hondo also found too much for them!. performance was all the more meritorious because ho has only beou up some three weeks. . ■ , :

Aniato easily won the first open flat race at Hastings on Wednesday, and carried list. 41b. Though he has 271b. less to carry hi-thev,Winter , Cup, visitorswho saw him win "at Hastings regard him as too slow a beginner to have » chance in that event. It should, be remembered, howe.ver,. ihat. ho is-, a .great, finisher. ■ . ' .

W. Kirk, with two wins (Amato and Niwaru), and B. Lowe (Waitoke) were the winning jockeys at the Hawke's Bay Hunt Club meeting. Spaniard, a. doubte winner, was ridden by Mr. J. Ellinghanu

Spaniard impressed those present. at Hastings by; his good showing. in both, races. He is by Torpedo from Espianok, and is trained by B. Gooseman.. He'is to bo given a chance over the big coun-. try at Eiccarton, and goes south on Tuesday night. ■ .

The jumping at Hastings on day was much above the average, and there was only one fall during the day.

Corazon lightened np a good deal after his two races at Trentham, but he is a sum starter in the Grand National at Eiccarton, and arrives here on the way south on Monday night.

Whataknra is not likely to fulfil hie engagement in the Grand National Hurdles at Eiccarton.

Tho report that Lovell is to be sent to. Eandwick to race now proves.to be in» correct.

Great interest is being taken in the election of president of the Hawkes Bay Jockey Club. The candidates ure Messrs T. H. Lowry and G. P. Donnelly. Each side is working hard to secure the return of its representative.

The Hastings jockey, J. O'Connell, who was hurt at tho last Hastings meeting, i« now quite well again, and loft for Eiccarton by tho Mararoa last night.

I'rom England comes word of the death of the thoroughbred stallion Oryioto. He was twenty-two years old, having b«m foaled in 188S, and was by Bend Or out of Nappli, by Macaroni out of Sunshine, by Thormanby. Ho was thus nnexceptionably bred, and did some good service for his'breeder and owner, Mr. J. H. Houidsworth,. for whom ho won several good races without being equal to ■ achieving classic honours. His successes as a two-year-old included the New Stake* at Ascot, the Portland Stakes at Leicester, and the Chesterfield Stakes at Newmarket, lint he failed to run into a place- for the Middle Park .Plate won by M. E. Blanc's Gouvorueur. - His following season was marked by many victories, and among them may he mentioned the Midsummer Plate at Newmarket, Sussex Stakes at Goodwood, Great Yorkshire Stakes at York, Doncaster Stakes, and tho Free Handicap Sweepstakes at Newmarket Houghto'n. Further honours awaited'him as a four-year-old, for the won the Rous Memorial Stakes at Ascot and a small race at the windiug-up meeting at the Turf headquarters, though severnl failures had to bo chronicled between the two achievements. He opened 1893 with, a capital performance by winning the Keinpton'Park Jubilee Stokts under flst. 51b., but he made a poor show for the Ascot Gold Cun, aud nftor being lrtaten by Cabin Boy tor the Dullingham Stakes at Newmarket in July was retired to the stud. One of his progenv in the Dominion is the brood mare Stresa. FIXTURES. August 3.—Woodlands Hunt Club Annual Steeplechase. August 9, 11, and 13.-C.J.C. Grand National.