NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 924, 17 September 1910, Page 13

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

/; - ;.[BY .GLENCOE,]

. The Avondale Jockey Club's meeting opens to-day, when the principal events to be ' decided. are <the Avondale Cup and'the Avondale Stakes.- /, 'By his win at the Waikato Hunt Club's' meeting . last ' Saturday, . King Soult has incurred /a' 51b.penalty, .for the /Flying ..'Handicap'-'.--.to. .be run-;at. Avondale _ , , Naumai is exceptionally weir at the present 'time..- He !; is -engaged in the Henderson Handicap, four furlongs, at Avondale- to-day,' and. will be ridden by T. Pritchard. '--

- Owners are given a final reriiinder that nominations 'for the Marlborough Racing Club's Spring meeting olose tonight with tho secretary, Mr. L...Griffiths,, Blenheim.

M. Ryan will have, the mount on Waimangu . in.. the •• Avondale Chip. -

' Merrie Zealand is.-.one- of tho'"latest," horses to 1 ; b6 . .supported for the New Zealand Cup. ■; Paritutu,' who ran second;to Paisano fn : the. Grand National last month,, is '-engaged ,in 'the /Handicap Hurdles at Avondafe this afternoon.".

■ Mr.- A. F. Douglas will leave for Sydney. by. next -Friday's : ' steamer to Se'e- 1 . his.-,-horses race vat. the .Australian Jockey,VClub's' Spring .meeting. There were ibig commissions for Los Angeles on both days of tho' Ashburton , meeting , during, the week, and by ; being defeated in'.each of. his'races the ohestnut horse involved his backers in very heavy losses." • / The only jockeys-to ride/ more than one winner, at the' Rangitikei Racing Club's meeting were L. Traill (3) and W. Young (2). . Bookmakers wishing to do business at the Lower Valley - Jockey -Club's meeting 'are notified ;by advertisement' of the date" on which , applications 'for licenses must be sent. in. - ■: Latest advioe from' Australia says: that all tho New Zealand liorses are now doing well, especially Crucinella; who .is- said to be in better, condition than she. was ever in ,in New Zealand. . Wild West,:: who, is engaged - in the Flying Stakes at Avondale to-day,' has been' doing good, lyork in Auckland recently. j .-■' ". -■ .. . . At. the conclusion of tho Avondale Jockey Club's Spring meeting, : the Auckland horseman B. Deeley will ■loave for Sydney, to ride Sunburnt and other horses at. Randwick. : . Deeley may come back to the Dominion in tinie to ride Advocate, in the New Zealand Cup. •" ; i'. ■'

"Wauchope is engaged :in two races at Avondale to-day, bat 'will probably start in the . Flying Handicap \ only. Master Laddo was : undoubtedly. the best-looking horse competing at the Rangitikai Racing Club's • meeting, and it will be surprising if lih9 half-brother to Frisco does not prove to bo a very high-class performer; : He'' showed good form in the open race ■ at Bulls on Thursday, but ha is notj yet wound up to concert' pitch, and each week should work improvement in.hiin. It is worthy of npto that both the, sire and dam of Master Laddo are imparted animals. v Mr. W. F. M'Betli, owner of Crucineila," left for Sydney'yesterday, to see the San Francisco mare run at the A.J.C. Spring Meeting. Cruoinella was entered for an event at the Tattersall's Club Meeting last Saturday, but had she rulrwell news would probably have been cabled across. To-day she is to contest the Spring Stakes, of 500 sovs.', at Rosehill. A. Oliver is to have tlie mount on tho New Zealand mare in all her races.

J. Stewart, the New Zealand crosscountry rider, rode Johnson into second place in the hurdle race at Warwick Farm, Sydney, on Septembor 3. Stewart has been engaged £o ride The Reckoning in his engagements at Randwick next month. After the A.J.C. meeting, the New. Zealand jockey will probably go to Western Australia. Perhaps the best performance that has yet been registered by a New Zealand Cup candidate entered for this year's event is that credited to Ingoda on the first (Jay at Ashburton. Viewed from any standpoint, the Stepniak mare's second in tho Ashburton Handicap was very good form indoed. In tho first placo, she had not raced since she won the St. Leger in April last, whilo Rose Noble and Los Angeles, the first and third horses, both raced more than once at tho Grand National meeting. Then Rose Noble proved that lie was very well in August by defeating tho Winter Cup winner, Nyland. Again, the time of the race in which Ingoda was just beaten at Ausburton was only a fifth of a second outside the New Zealand record for nine furlongs.

"Mr. Middleton. Melrose," who has raced horses on a fairly extensive scale for the past four seasons, left here for Sydney yesterday by the Manuka. With the exception of Lord Kelvin, all Mr. Melrose's horses go to > Sydney, to bo placed in . charge of J. Lowe, Lord Kelvin remains in tho Dominion to compete in the principal three-year-old races, and he seems certain to pay his way. Advantage was entered for a race at the A.J.C. Spring meeting, but she mil probably . be withdrawn, and entered along with Trugnnini at Caulfield and Flemington, where it is to be hoped they will carry their owner's colours with success. "Mr. Middleton Melrose" will be missed from the ranks of New Zealand owners, for since he started racing with Truganini in 1908; his team has been constantly on the increase, and his cerise and green colours have been seen at all the principal meetings and many of the smaller meetings from Auckland to' Dunedin. With Truganini,. Advantage, Magneto, and Lord Kelvin, the colours were carried to victory on. numerous occasions. Last' season £1748. was credited to Mr. Melrose in stakes, but -the Wellington, sportsman must have spent considerably more than , that in general racing expenses. ' ' - :