NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1590, 6 November 1912, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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'• Buyers were, scarce at the yearling sales at Christchurch yesterday, and in ! the majority of instances the prioes realised were very, poor. The.Bushy Park yearlings attracted a : lot of attention, - and the Boniform-Carissima filly brought -top price, 2GO guineas (telegraphs pur correspondent). Tho nine -lots Vbrought ;860 guineas, or an average of just under.-.100 guineas. ! Jewel Pin, who is engaged in tho'Randolph Hand'ican to-day with the mihimmn impost, defeated HesiOhe in a.sh-fnrlongs gallop prior to the opening of the meeting. Tho latter, it frill be remembered, scored in the Hack: Race on Saturday.

The Wanganui-trained North East and Pliroso are not to bo raced again •' tliis week, but will bo shipped north, by the Mararoa, ivhich leaves Lyttelton .tliEs j evening. '.:i At Riccarton on Monday, W. D. Young, rider of Fashion Plate, was fined £5 for careless riding. ; , The committee appointed by the. Racing Conference) to consider applications for the positions', of stipendiary Stewards have already met several, times this Week, but .the' task in front pf them is a big one, and it is unlikely that'any announcement will bp made for some, little time yet. In WelMnformed circles. it is considered certain that one of the appointments will be given to a well-known Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's steward. Hawick was lame after racing at Ricoarton on Monday, and though accepted for to-day, it is unlikely that the Porjrua hurdler will be able to start.

The progeny of Neva continue to bring' big prices a? yearlings, and at the sale of the Kinloch youngsters yesterday, a colt by Charlemange II was purchased by Mr. T. H. Lowry for 220 guineas. The Metropolitan meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club will be advanced <v further stage to-day, when an interest-! ing day's sport is promised. The events, which will probably cause most interest are the Canterbury Cup, the premier': long-distance weight-for-age race in New Zealand, and the New Zealand Oaks, a race for three<year-pld fillies... In tho Canterbury Cap to-day, ViceAdmiral will strip a much fitter horse and should start favourite. Consequent upon her forward running in the New Zealand Derby on Monday, the Chokebore filly,' Brown Owl, is likely to start ,a very hot favourite' in the Oajcs to-day. ■■ Allegory was ridden by a stable hand in the Metropolitan Handicap on Monday and gave a nvuoh better shotting than ho did in the Cup. Probably he is improving with racing, and this being so. the mount in the Otaio Plate will probably be given, to Deeley. 'It will'be noticed that tho opposition in the race named is decidedly weak.