NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 984, 26 November 1910, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

"• '"""TBr GLEKT^bE.] 7 The TakapunaVJockey drib's "meetihYl ponim«nces to-day.. / The principal event is the St. .Andrew's Handicap, one. mile and a quarter." : ' ". —:-■-—-.-- — . Rosa'Noblov.waV: taken:.; to ITitoara; Ho'j compete at-thcSouth-Canter-bury -Jockey l Club's .meeting, but of. thi. very hard-, going: he iras-Eot started: ,"'■ Nominations for -tho'-Manawatu -Racing Club's summer close , ; to-night... Acceptances for the. .first .day's .events" at tho 'Woodvillo Jockey Club's '■■ meeting closal. on .'Monday.' Entries -for- ' the Maiden and Scurry;. Handicaps' are' J d\le" ; at thp.'eamo :'timc.'•- ■•■ '•'■:■ - •--'• r<< The ..programme -for-the Aslthurst. Eacing. Club's , 'meeting.appears in. .this issue... Nominations closa on Saturday next, December 3. Bookmakers wishing to do business at tho Fcildiiig •Jockey Club's;' should apply -for,- licenses. on : .ori»be£ore: Monday.. ■'■::'■■.; l( \; • ■'•-' ;" ,iiiV; no ■ Black-Northern'is .'said ■ to. '-"he'- looking quite fresh after ■ his recent racing, anil is looked upon as a sure starter;in fiio Tiri Hurdle Raco at tb.e\Takapuna : meeting to-day. ; . ; . Echo (Obligado—lCitiroa)" and Grenadier (Soult—Hotcherina) irero shipped from Auckland, to Prii'by ; tho Navua'oii Wed-' nesday in!charge of S.' Hoige. ,7 i: v" .- At th« Caitl field meeting oil November 12, tho bookmakers stated that there was •"no money about." This led a Melbourne paper to .facetiously remark that tho bookmakers got all -the money at the Melbourne Cup meeting on'the*previous week. _ ■ ' ' The hurdler, Merry. 'Lawn,--who has been in Blenheim -for' some ! weeks,' go&i through to Feilding to-ilay to cbmneto in : ;tha hurdle'"€ychts 'there' next: week.: Ho -will, bo ridden by C. Cress. Merry Lawn is to .be'entered for', welter events at the Ifanawatu Racing Club's summer meeting arid, , : after competing there, ho may be taken across to' Sydney. ■.'■-.:' It. appears thatsomo orrors . occurred in telegraphing the weights-for 1 the ■.Wcoi-villo meeting. The following corrections are notified:—Grandstand Handicap—First Consul, 9st. 131b. "\A : oodvil!c Handieap—Clemora, Sst. 31b.;' and Flying Handicap—Jackpin, 7st. 21b. Delegate, : a half-brother to Record Rcig-n, is engaged in the Maiden Hurdles at tho Takapuna. meeting ,to ; day..' Delegate has run second in two recent essays over tho jumps. [ ' ■..' iGolden. Loop has only been, allotted- Gst. 131b; in the Cieltenham Handicap, to be. run at Norfii Shore to-day. It .will bo interesting ' to see how : tho big' horsb shapes on tho small track.' .-.,.' Accorcling to returned . visitors from Australia, tho New Zealand hurdle horseman. J. Steirart, is. now.' in.great demand in Sydney and Melbourne, and, in the Cup Hurdle Raco. at Elcmington. he was' offer«l the mount on no-fewer'than five different horses. Stewart's continual success in Australia .-'will bepleasing to his many friends in. the Bominion; The local sportsnian.Jtr; H; , Whitney, has decided to. give. the. chestnut colt, Varnn, a six-months' spell in tho pad- . dock, to see if ho will get over the bleeding trouble which" has affected him in ' recent rapes. , . ' ..... . Ciscoroso ..(San. Francisco—La ~ Rose), who formerly raced in;the,'unregistered, ranks at Miramar, is now at--the stud, and has been :mated.with Eield Battery, who is located, at. Trentham. , ..: .; Sea Kin; ran - mnch below ..his .. best form at Timaru. In the Flying Handicap, on the first day of the meeting, he was.a.bad last. ~ His owner was ciuite. at a loss to account- for; his -pobr,' , display as the'geldin'g liad : galloped B-'cll before . the meeting,;; and,...in .a'dditiori,. liad run prominently-in -the .Stewards'—Han-', dicap at the C.J.C. meeting. ' ' " ; According ,tb.\th;e"..limes .regiifefed af Timaru, ■ the track there must -havo been 'vory fast. I'a'n'cy. .the ancient Medallist being-able-to run in lmin.'-lOsec. It v,nuld -beia' proverbial guinea to "a , gooseberry that,', on any other track, he could not ; conipass eight ,T -furlongs in linin. 'liaec-. -■-' *-'- ">' J ;i ■ • -■■■ •■:;■ Local horseman, E. Murtagh, who was badly injured when Xavier fell with him""at Uiccarton, has sufficiently recovered to ride-work and, on Monday last, lie journeyed to Bulls to school Tho Nativo and .Irish Rifle in preparation for their Feilding and ."Wqodville races. - : The programme,for tho AVairarapa Racing Club's summer moetijighas now published. ,',!Hho fix'tiu ; e.-is.(o'.bo.,hcld at Tauherinikau,.on Ja l uuar.y-.,2,,a'nd'3,-;a,ud; the club will- distribute the- sum of i£lS9o' in stakes. On the, flrst day .'thc.Wairarapa Cup is worth 325 soys., while ,200,-sovs.' is attached to the principal handicap on the-'second day. .Two-year-olds are well, looked after, as-there is.au event each ■day for--horscs'!of this age, -the 'nrizo money being. 110 sovs. in each case. Nominations for.-, all • events close> on ■Friday, December 3. with ,thol club's...eecrataryi Mr! E. A.'Lacrj-j Feathcrston-.. ' ,-•■'• Ikon has fonled a , filly to the' Futurity Stakes winner Antonio (Prisoner—Padua'),and is now to visit/Moral.- -'■ -■ After working-at; Napier oh Tuesday iKorningi 'Me'riwa . showed, signs of lameness, and it;i3.believed -that; ho will require a. lengthy spelir ', '"'■" " ,-■. Fonn\ilist^.(SL-.,Leger—EQrnie)..died,' re-' cc'ntly after producing a filly to Mystification. The death* is also announced of the brood mard, Bijou (dam of' Finery, Kohinaor, Cullinan, Star and .Garter; etc.). '." '■" ,: ■'-.' ' ■ ■'■;■. ' A local follower: of racing received a pleasant .surprise yesterday in the. shape

of a cheque from the Canterbury Jockey ; . i- : Club. While -at the New Zealand'Cup-.'i ''■ meeting the recipient of the ' cheque'""■ backed Culpiit and another horse in the ,„. same race, and after Culprit won, he .was •": talking to a friend- and carelessly '.tore '.'.- %■ up the Culprit ticket :n mistake :,ff:r■.-=;''" (he worthless one. He informed the sec-; ;: : rethry of the club, and was told to" put V his .claim in writing, and it wonldJ-ieV j . considered. Later he gave the :club-a. v letter of indemnity'against future -claim's.;-' " ; . on the unpresen'ted ticket, and yesterday •.--■,■ received a cheque for the. amount of thp.'.- . dividend. t' ' ■ '. V '■