NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1163, 26 June 1911, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[By Gi.encoe.] The Napier Park Eacing Club's meeting takes place at Grcenmeadows on Wednesday and Thursday next. The jockeys'C. Cress and E. Thompson both had falls at the To Mahanga Hunt last week, but neither was hurt. Although the weights for tho first day's races at. Trentham were originally fixed to appear to-day, they will not now be declared until after the racing at Napier. Tark. .Tumping alone won the Hack Steeplechase for Eoscgrovc at Hastings. The old fellow stripped well, and got round safely on both days. Kohupatiki must win a high-jumping competition judging by the way he got up in the air at some of his. fences at Hastings. Ascalon, who developed influenza at tho last Foilding meeting, has again been taken up by his owner, Mr. E. A. M'Donaid, and looks well. Ho will not be raced until the spring: Consequent upon M. M'Grath shifting to Melbourne, First Consul has been handed to N. Williams to prepare for futuro engagements. Eangiatua is still in a bad way as a result, of the fall which he sustained at Hastings in the autumn, and it is doubtful if he will race again for somo considerable time. Blue Lake is being wintered at Hastings. Mr. Lonergan's filly is improving in looks with the spell, and will strip better in the spring. Captain Jinglo pulled up lamo ono morning after jumping' tho Hastings country, and this was the reason for Ins withdrawal from last week's engagements. Pohutu has very bad joints in front, and it does not appear as if he will stand. G. Hirst, who rode him in the Necklace event on the second day at Hastings, states that the Explosion horse was nearly down on two or three occasions during tho race. Mr. E. W. Clancy, tho well-known Australian owner, has decided to sell off his team of junipers on Monday, July 10. 'The horses that will be offered at auction are: The Beckoning, Conlorp, Pakau, Tcrragong, Nimrod, and Grateful. The entries received on Friday night for the Canterbury Jockey Club's Grand National meeting constitute a record. Tho li=t totalled 275 for tho six events, tho previous best' being 231 in 1907. As El Dorado has mado tho acceptance for the Napier Steeplechase, it would appear as if Mr. Donnelly's 'chaser is sound again, and may still have t'o bo reckoned with in somo of tho big crosscountry events this jumping season. Nnpper is not t'lnong the acceptors for the Molco Hack Hurdles at Napier Park, but (he ICaramu stable has a representative in the same race in the shape of liollin. Previous to winning at. Hastings, Loolantcr had run second on fourteen occasions. At Hastings Inst week, C. Pn'co was bitten on tho head by The Eover, anil the Foxlon horseman received a nnsly wound as the result.

Mallet' vent very sore on (ho first morning that he worked tit Hastings ami it was with difficulty that his owner sot him safely to t.ho post for his races. Tho son of Malatua shaped much below his form in tho Hawkes Bay Hurdles, Though the crack rider P. Burn has won nearly every other jumping event

of importance in Australia, he has never yet been on (lio back of n V.R.C, Grand National Hurdle Race winner. It is not for the want of opportunities, as ho has been up in tho last roven Nationals, bin record being i—i'.llll, Acrobat, fell; 1905, Valour, ninth) 3000, Old Chappie, twelfth; 1007, Regret, ninth i 1008, l'araloch, seven, leenthj 1900, Nigbtliglit', fifteenth) 1910, The Reckoning, second. His mount in the same race next month will bo Sparkle, who won the Onkaparlnga Cup, in April.

At the Wnimale Plains Trotting Club'a meeting, held at Uawcrn, on Thursday last, the following worn the results of Win racesi-Maiden Handicap Trot.—Flv. wheel, lj Wynnlte, 2: Lady Dolly, 3. Normanby Handicap Trot.-Goldon Hose, 1; the Flasher, 2; Waiwarra, 3. Waimale Plains Handicap-Jack W., 1; Huon Berlin, 2; Will', a. Ladies' Bracelet.Jvnns Iracey, 1, Hamapulni, 2; Th< Hasher, 3. Hawora Handicap Trot.-. Rutland, 11 Elsie's Child, 2; Golden Rosa, 3. iStratford Handicap Trnt.-Ella Bell li Nancy Till, 2, To Wanahau,.3. FIXTURES. Juno 28 and 29~Nnplcr Park R.C. Wintcl July 0 and 7-Glsborno R.c. Winter July 15, 19, and II.C. Wintcr, August 8, 10, and 12-Canterbury J.C'« Orand National.