NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1369, 21 February 1912, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

(Bv Olenjoe.) Marlon-, who claims an engagement at the Woodville meeting, is doing exceptionally good work and is reported to have put up one of the best seven-furlong gallops ever registered on the Awanuni racecourse.

Rose Noble is the onlv Dunedin Cup candidate that contested the event last year. When carrying Bst. 21b. he finished third to Los Angeles (list. 51b.), and Fasnakyle (7st. 51b.). _ The Auckland Cud winner Santa Rosa is considered a certain starter at Wanganui mid will be ridden bv C Brown who was in the saddle at Ellerslk". Autumnus and Byron will be the onlv Canterbury horses at vhs Wanganui meeting, and they will leave for the north on lhursday. Taskmaster, by Troadmill-Mndowla, arrived at Kiccarton last week and is once r !o !'° lll T, his , °! (1 c l uarteI "s at Chokebore Lodge. He broke down while running in the .New Zealand Cup fifteen months ago, and having had a spell another effort will be made to train him. Politician, a yearling colt bv Treadmill —Elusive, has arrived at. Riccarton from on- Geo. Clifford's Stonyhurst stud. , r ' rhe , two-year-old colt Quarantine, bv Jreadniill-laii-haven, has been blistered and wi I be given a spell. He has alwavs sullered from a slight lameness, but his trainer hopes that with (ho rest he will outgrow the weakness. Madam Madcap, by Clanranald—Madowla, who broke down some time ago, has been sent home to Stonyhurst stud, her racing career being at an end.

1-or over a week now there lias been nothing but incessant rain at Dunedin, and the prospects of fine weather for the Cup meeting are very remote. A private wire suites (hat the going will be extra heavy. I his will not be good news to supporters of the Wellington continent none of whom, .except Tittita, are verv good m the nmd. If any of the remainder are successful it will enly go to prove how moderate is tho form in the south. Parable is the only Dunedin-lrnined horse engaged in the Cup at Wingatui today. Mr. A. Boyle, chairman of the C..T.C. Committee, who has been on a short, trip to Wellington, returned home on Mondav t'i-enijig. At Win,;atui yesterday morning the orally-trained Effort ran the fastest gallop ii| the morning. She will be a starlcr in the Publicans - Handicap to-dav, and will !;■» ridden by 11. tin v. The' crack horseman will also have the mounts on Muiuura in (ho Cup and Bon Ton in the Champagne Stakes.

FIXTURES. Feb. 21. 22, and 21-Duncdiu J.C. Autumn. Feb. 21 stii'l 22—Womlvillo District J.C. Autumn. Feb. 211 and 24-South Auckland R.C. Annual. Feb SO and March 2—Wangauui J.C, Autumn,