THE TURF.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1046, 8 February 1911, Page 7

THE TURF.

NOTES AND COMMENTS, [Bt Glescoe.] The Egmont mooting, which' opens at: Hawora. to-day, promises tn be a most successful, gathering, A large number of visiting horses aro taking part and in most of tho races good fields will go to tho post. llill, who has won in her last seven attempts, will he ridden in the Ha went Stakes by A. Olliver, but in To I'uin, sho will encounter something much harder to beat than sho has previously met. To I'liia will bo racing oil her own track anil she is very well. Iu tho open Hurdles nt tho Egmont •meeting Houmac will be ridden by K. Murtagh as W. Young is at Gisborne. and Playmato will , havo tbo services of T. Pritchard. , Murtngh will also steer Winchester in tho Hack Hurdles, wjiilo the top weight Waitnpu will bo riddcu by J. O'Driscoll, jun. A field of thirty-fivo horses has accepted for the Mercmero Hack Flat, five furlongs," at Hawera, but outsido St: Toney, Contralto, Red Lupin, llowbells, and Billingtoii, they are not n good lot. Jenkins will have the ninuut on Billinglon,' who is a full-brother to that good horso St. Bill. Vosterday morning Hillington galloped the fastest half mile on the Hawera coursc. .

Serenity, who promised to start favourite for the L'smout Ladies' Purso has gone wrong, and will not be at tho meeting. • ■

Meijdip. and Lsdy Medallist will divido favouritism in .tho Egmont Cup.' The" former will be ridden by Gray and not Doelcy as previously stated, and the latter by Jenkins. Slendip made a. very bold showing in the Wellington Cup, and may defeat Lady Medallist to-day. But there will not be much in it either way and though tho top weight has ft very big imnoJt she is such a really good performer that it will cause no surprise to find nnother Clip fall lo her list.'

The. Auckland trainer, It. Kail, .has arrived at' Havrera with Lady Patricia, who has an engagement in the Open Hurdles to-day; .Monoplane, who is being reserved for tho Taranaki Cup, and Tamainupo, who is affccted in tho wind and may not bo seen, at his best.

Nominations for tho Dannevirko Racing Club's meeting close, on Saturday noxt.

After winning tho Selling Raco at Riccarton on Saturday, The Cornet was sold to Mr. D. Roberts, of Greymouth, for ■CIOO.

Weights for tho first day's events at the Woodviilo meeting are due on Friday.

The turf in Chile is on tho up line. There will bo 100 days' racing next year, but onlv on Sundays and Feast days (which latter are numerous). Tho most valuable raco,is tho Prions Contonnrio, of 12,000 gold-dollars, for three-year-olds and upwards, run over ono mile and a half. Tho Chilian Derby is only endowed with 6000 gold-dollars, but is confined to native-born three-year-olds, whereas tho Primis Centenario is open also to horses bred in Peru, tho Argentine, and North America. ■

Weights for tho AVunganui Cup and Flying Handicap will bo declared on Saturday.

In connection with the rccont raco for the Viceroy's Cup in India, on English writer says that the winner, Jlayfowl, is looked for in vain in tho Stud Book, bis dam, Jl3yb«rry, tind.ing no piaco therein, and she is no doubt n member of tho famous Jliv Day family; which is denied admission io the Stud Book because tho pedigree cannot bo traced beyond a certain point. At tho samo timo it includes many excellent racehorses, of whom May Bo.v (and his son Chit Clint) and Kendal Bello (with' her ton Prospector) aro readily retailed. ...

Poor old Salute, once a winner of tho Great Eastern Railway Handicap, and the first winner (by Carbine) of tho great brood mare Fcsta, was (says an English exchange) recently saved from • nn ignominious end at tho hands of tho knacker. Tho old gelding, who in his later years had beeu running with moro or, generally, loss success in steeplechases in Germany, alter bis various English and French owners had tired of him, was actually in tho yard of the slaughtermen at Friederichshagen when tho Messrs. Von Weinberg—for whom Salute's dam Fcsta had bred such first-raters as Festino, Fcls, Fabula, Faust, and Fervor— stepped in. and Salute, thanks to tho kind •hearts of tho two famous sporting brothers, is to end liis days in peaco in their paddocks at AVnldfricd.

FIXTURES.

Feb. S and !>.—Egrnont R.C. Summer. Feb. !) and 10.—Poverty Bay T.C. Summer. Feb. 15 and 16.—Taranaki J.C. Autumn. Feb. 22 and 23.—Woodviilo District J.C.

Autumn. Feb. 22, 23, and 25.—Dunedin J.C.

Autumn. March 1 and C.—South Canterbury J.C.

Autumn. March 1 and 2.—Nelson .T.C. Annual. March 2 and 4.—Wnnganni J.C. Autumn. •March 8 and '.).—Dannevirko IJ.C. Autumn. March 13 and- 10.—Napier Park R.C. Autumn. March 23 and 21.—Mnsterton R.C. Autumn.