THE TURF.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1207, 16 August 1911, Page 6

THE TURF.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. {Br Gm:ncoe.] Owners aro reminded that nominations for tho Marlon Jockey Club's annual meeting close mi Friday next, August 18, with tho club's secretary, Mr. Arthur Way. Collie members of Sonsa's Sand were among tho number who had a good win at Kircarton on Saturday over tho fuccess of Ilawick. W. Gillet, formerly head lad at tho Higlido.il stables, who has been on a visit to Chrislchurch. intends to settla again at I'a.lmcrston North. No fewer than thirty-five racehorses were on board the Mararoa, which arrived at Wellington yesterday morning from Lyt. teltou.

Dearest was too bod with strangles to irecompany the other members of the Porirua team homo from Riccarton, and six? has consequently been left behind la charge of D. Mornghan. Word, when the boat left Lyttelton on Monday evening, was to the effect that 0. Cochrane, who had boon rendered umeonscious by the fall off Windage in tlio National' Hurdles, had not recovered. C. .Tonkins, who was taken suddenly ill while on the way homo from the "National" meeli'ng, is still in a serious cocu dition. Corazon, quo of the heroes of tho Riecarton meeting, arrived hero on his wuy home to Hastings yesterday morning, and is being railed on this morning. It is his trainer's intention to at once put him out of work. When Sir M"m. Russell returns from England, ho may decide to have the horse sent Home, with a view to his competing in the Liverpool Grand National. •

•Though his race in the National Steeples was a very severe one, his trainer thinks that it did Urazon good, and, had he ■ stood up on the final day, ho is euro that ho would have, given Sir Mho « lot of trouble to shako him off. Discussing the fall, Collello slated that he thought that it was brought about by his rider endeavouring to restrain him. This had mado him "take off" on the wrong leg. ■ King G6orgo has conferred tho Coronation medal on his trainer Richard Marsh, of Egerton House. ' ' One thing which the Riccarton meeting has taught us is that the projicr mission ot Undecided is to curry a wtfjn weight, ■ and to be ridden by a man; The advance m form mado' by tho Jlenschikoff gelding during the last month has been wonder- , nil, and it is difficult to account fc tho defeats registered against him in the early ; part of the season. Unless, indeed, it was that ho must bo ridden by a man.

Corazoii, who set out this year lo win, tho Wanganui, Great Northern nrnl National Steeplechases, was attempting a - task. that - had not licpn accomplished in (life past. Everyone will regret the defeat of the Hastings champion in tho last. event of _ tho treble, moro especially as tho opinion is held in several quarters that ho should not have been defeated. Weights for the New Zealand Cup are. duo on Saturday next. \ The Egmont-Wnuganui Hunt Club iucofc> ing happens on Thursday next week. A London exchange of recent issue, save: "[With reference to tho Bills Senator Gib. tins is bringing before the Senate of Albany, tho Senator recently aid; 'Exagger- . ated reports havo been circulated as to tho effect of these Bills.' Their purpose is not to revive the betting ring, nor to mako professional betting possible. It is merely to save racing. I think tho Senate will pass these Bills." In this con- . nection we may add that the 'Now.York • Telegraph' of Juno 18 pointed out to the reverend spoil sports to whom racing is abomination that, the U.S. Government was owner of, four horses entered for a race of a mile and a half oh the flat at tho recent County Club meeting at Brookline. Tho reason for this, our contemporary explained, was 'that for some time . the U.S. Government has had a realise-' tion of the sad need of better mounts for the Army, and General Wood, like others who have mado a study of tho horse, knows that tho racecourse is tho only testing ground. Ho has not only sanctioned the, racing of the horses of the Army, but has given the sport his "hearty support." And yet we havo tho spectacle of wild, intemperate ravings against a sport which is not only sanctioned but f endorsed and opyouraged'by tho Government itself., , ■' ■*' . •