NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 978, 19 November 1910, Page 13

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[B* Glencoe.] Nominations for tho Woodvillo District Jockey Club's meeting closo on Monday night. Sonoma's colh, foaled by. Bezonian, died during tho week. Kopu is perhaps tho most noticeable deflection from tno St. Andrew's Handicap at Feilding. He had 9st. in the mile and a half race, and has only 7st. 101b. in tho Auckland Cup,-two miles. If Mendip is awarded first placo in the Dannevirke Handicap, as the result of protest, ho will incur 51b. * penalty for tho St. Andrew's Handicap. Meagher, tho apprentice in A. Nealo's Palmcrston stable, • created a favourable impression by his riding at tho Dannevirke meeting, and, provided ho retains a qool head, should secure a good deal of mounts now. Arinlot must bo accounted very lucky to receive only 9st. 41b. in the Railway .Handicap at Auckland, although sho is top weight. Aucklanders aro looking forward with interest to her meeting with Saluto. Bridge, Diabolo, and Kopu, tho placed horses in the New Zealand Cup, aro all engaged in tho Auckland Cup. iiow : will they finish? Ngakau did not give her backers airy return for their money in tho Maiden llac© at Dannevirke, but the way m which tho'race was run, and tho subsequent form of Tigerine, makes it appear as if the best horso caught tho judge's. eye. The Blenheim owner, Mr. T. Septor, took two horses to Riccarton. 0110 of them, Lawn Rose, broke down, and has been sent to tho "Waikanao stud on a visit _to the imported horso Uezonian, while the other, Glenspring, is still at Riccarton, but will shortly leave for tho "West Coast. Ho is engaged at the Greymoutli. meeting, and should do well amongst tho weak . opposition which bo will encounter there. Husbandman, who has been troubled with bleeding lately, is not. likely to be seen out at Feilding, but Sharpshooter, Tenterhook, and Madam Madcap aro booked to mako the northern trip. Eqmtas, who was badly galloped on at .Riccarton, is still in the south. Next week tho Advance mare will be brought north, and taken straight to Feilding, where sho has an engagement 011 November 30. When Equitas was beaten in the Members' Handicap, seven furlongs, she was very so'ro, but, considering that tho raco w*as run in record; time, she shaped remarkably well. As she carried 9st. 41b. in that event, she cannot! be considorcd harshly treated with 9st. 91b. in tho-six furlong raco at Feilding. Tho Wait-aTa-owned Mortitc, by AVairiki,. from Daffodil, is spoken of as a horso likely to be hoard of in tho futnro. So far tho Wairiki stock have not been I much sought after. Tho yearlings, which G. Price purchased for "Mr.-Highden" at the yearling sales last week, passed through Wellington along with'the other members of Price's Riccarton team on Thursday last. In tho St. Andrew's Handicap, at Feilding, John is meeting Birkdale on much more favourable-terms than when they met in tho Canterbury Cup. John ran exceedingly well in the Fendalton Handicap, and he also shaped well .in tho Canterbury Cup, although Birkdalo finished in front of him. Among the mares to be mated with All Black (Gallinule —Vortex) this seascsi aro Armada (dam of Vi) and Victoria Cross. (dam of Pluck). Armada recently foaled a filly to Bezonian. Just how good Madder has proved as a brood mare will bo seen when it is stated that tho Gossoon mare . first produced in 1899 to Stepniak, and every year .sinco, has , .brought;. to light a pledge to the samo siallion, her-, progeny with tho priccs they liavo realised being .as follow; —Madrigal, .310 guineas; Rose Madder, 145 guineas; Rubia, 170 guineas; Munjeet, 160 guineas; Mungista, 350 guineas; All Red, 430 guineas; .Ukraine, 535 guineas; Cronstadt, 400 guineas; Madhura, 325 guineas. Her daughter that was sent up lost year was passed in at 200 guineas. Mr. Donnelly gavo 575 guineas for her black son this year.

Successful as jockey W. H. M'Lachlan has been in' most of the, big handicaps in' New South Wales and Victoria, he has yet to ride a winner of a Derby or St. Leger at Randwick or Flemington. ; He has ridden three times in-the A.J.C. Derby for two seconds, Monobel and Bobadea, while in the St. Leger-his two mounts—Monobel and Diabolo— each ran third. His Victoria Derby mounts total, throe, and he was third on Lord Foote and Bobadea, while Monobel, his solitary V.R.C.- St. Loger ride, filled third place. He has not yet ridden in a Caulfield Guineas. In the way of "cups" lie has twelve and a dead-heat for a thirteenth to his credit, the only one of note he has not won in New South Wales or Victoria being the Australian Cup, in which he has only twico had mounts. RACING FIXTURES. Nov, 30 and Dec. I—Fcilding R.C. Spring, Dec. 7 and B—Woodville J.C. Summer.