THE TURF.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 897, 17 August 1910, Page 6

THE TURF.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS. .

Tho Manawatu Hunt Club's. steep!* chase meeting will be held to-day. ' Master Soult, it is understood, will M a sure starter in the A.J.C. Metropolitan Handicap, if all goes well: with Mm u> the meantime. • Owners are reminded that nominations for all events at the Marton' Jockey Club's- meeting close on Friday next, August 19, at S p.m. The steeplechase course- and the racing track are in excellent order. ■ ' Nyland,' the winner of the Winter Cup, returned from lite South yesterday, andwas railed, home ( to Awapuni. Tho big gelding looked none the worse for hig races at the C.J.C. meeting, and should l)e quite ready to again.sport 6ilk at the .Wanganui meeting nest month. Kilostere, a rather useful hack in the Highden stables, is to be; nominated for hack events, at the Marton and Rangitikei meetings. - '■■'■, The Wellington-owned Penates has been withdrawn from ■ the Epsom and Metropolitan Handicaps, fo it would appear as if there is no chance of the Hutt-trained horse making the Australian trip. The Porirua team that. competed at the' C.J.C. meeting returned, home yesterday. "■:' Hawick was the only member of the team who won a Tace during the Southern campaign.,' ...',."■'"..- '>' ' R. J. Mason, has booked.boxes for three horses -at Wanganui. It. may therefore be taken for granted that Formeden, Danube, and Perle d'Or will bo racing there. . J. Stewart, the New Zealand jockey, who recently, left these shores for Western Australia, has accepted some ridin? at- the A.J.C. Spring ' Meeting,, and will remain at Randmck until the end ' of October. ■' . . '■ . . Arclight's jumping at Riccarton " was more in keeping with what would be expected, of. a steeplechaser .than a back hurdler. ■ The Merriwee mare.has plenty of pace, but loses too much ground at her jumps. ■ . ■ At the' ICOspvs. given forrhim,. Rose Noble should prove a cheap horse, and if his new' owner can only keep him in his present condition, he is sure to win many • races -in the Son fch Island.

The Eoyal Artillery mare Ristori, purchased at the sale at Christchurch on Monday, is to go to the stud, nnd has been booted to the imported horse Bezonian. . ' ...

During the C.J.C. meeting the Southern owner ,N. Bertram was anxious to buy the Conqueror mare Pakau, but, at the figure quoted (,£100), no business resulted. • . .

The weight which Paisano, carried to' victory, in the ' Grand National Hurdles, viz., 12st. lib., is ttie heaviest winning impost excepting those weights carried by Liberator (12st. 61b.) in 1891 and Record Reign (12st. '121b.) in. 1900.': . ; ■' 'statistics published, in the - ."Australasian" show that during the season, just closed, the most 'successful owners wore Messrs. "J. Baron," iSU,6IO; J. S. Brunton, .£5664; C. Richards, .84800; J. Fielder/ Miff!,; and "M.Gordon," JE40a9.., Prince Foote was responsible for. all Mr. Baron's ■winnings, Desert Hoso for Mr. Richards , ?, and Alawa for "M.Gordon's"; while Mr. Brunton's position in the list is mainly due to •Maltine, the only other to "score, on his behalf being Gladswood.. Mr. H. K. Hunro, who does most of-, his - racing at country meetings in New, South Wales,, is credited with, the greatest number or wins, nine, of his .horses accounting ■ for 28i races, but the prize-money- only totals. .£832. , : :; ' ... ■ '~.- -. It was Neil Gow who made the deadheat in the:Sandown Park-Eclipse Stakes. ■ Lemborg led by a couple of lengths until' about a quarter of a mile from ; home, and'then Neil Gow commenced , to overhaul him. There was very little in it between them in the betting;■■ -.-■.!■ ■ •

Nominations for the Rangitikei Raoing Club's meeting .close on Saturday, 'Augustj 20, not August 19, as ■previously: announces. '""'•■■■", '■ .. ••■■■<

Acceptances for" the Ho'rowtienua; Hack Racing, Clnb's Spring Meeting, to be held on the Levin, Racecourse on; 2 aid 3, close "on Friday,' August.26. j Nominations for all events of the .Marfan Jockey ■ Clubfs ~Spring Meeting close onFriday, August 19, at 8 p.m., with tho secretary. '.-/ FIXTURES. :.' Aug. 17.—Manawatu. Hunt Club meeting. September 2 and .3.—Horowhenua Hacfc R.G. Annual; : September 7 and ;B.—Marton J.C.. Annual. ' ' ■'-'■'■.; ' Sept. 14 and 15.—Rangltikci R,C. Spring. Sept. 29 and Oct. . 1.-Wangariui ■ J.G. , Spring. .. '. •• ;.■'■; '..