VILLIERS STAKES.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1614, 4 December 1912, Page 9

VILLIERS STAKES.

Sydney/December 3. Gdgandra, with lOst. 21b., is top weight for the Villiers' Stakes. Wild West has Bst. 91b., and loli 7st. Blb. In the Sum. iner Cup Cadonia is top weight with 9st. 31b., Wild West and Monoplane have been allotted 7st. 131b., and loli 7st. 21b.

•NOTES AND COMMENTS, IBT (]I-bncoe.] The Woodville District Jockey Club's tummer meeting opens to-day. Mr, W. "Nidd, the well-known local owner, was married at Otaki last week. ■ Nominations for the Wairarapa'Racing Club's summer meeting closa at 8 pjn<

on Friday, next, with'the secretory, Featherston. ' . ' ■ ' ' ' . lfriday is also the dcy for the closing of nominations for the . Taratahi-Carterton Racing Club's meeting. .. _ . The thoroughbred stallion, Petrillo, who died recently ill New' South Wales, was by Gallinule, from Float, and conseqiieptly a member of the famous, Paraffin family, to which Briglit\Steel, Traquair, unci Bezoniau also belong: ' ■ _ . ■ My Qavonni, who ■■ registered such a 'great performance at Brisbane last Saturday by 1, winning the Summer Cup, one mile and three-quarters, ,with lOst. 91b. m the saddle, would probably have started at an outside price, as the Buckmaster gelding .was beaten the previous week o, the Bundamba course. • ' Of the eight w.f.a. races run at the recent. A.J.C., V.A.T.C., and Y.R.C. sp-nng meetings (says the .Sydney Referee), only two were won by absolute favourites —Duke Foote the Craven Stakes, and Trafalgar the Randwick Piate. In two other instances, however, the Winner shared : favouritism with another runner, Lady Medallist (winner) and. Wilari beins equally in demand for the Eclipse Stakes, and Duke Foota (winner) and Lady Medallist for the Melbourne Stakes', f . . Further improvements have been commenced at Trentham.■racecourse, and_a sum of ,£2500 is to' be : spent before the. summer .meeting in the stew : ards' stand, and erecting a tea kiosk. The stewards' stand.Will: be extended, at Irath ends, the members' accommodation being doubled, qnd tho present balcony, being extended right round the south end , overfookiug the saddhng-paddock. The tea kiosk will supply !V long-felt want. It will be a large building erected near the trees, and will, it is anticipated, provide, ample accommodation -for the largest crowd- visiting Trentham. -Mr. » • L. Thompson, contractor,". :« ellingtog, hut. the work in hand. ■ Craganour, the champion two-year-old in England, was bred by Major Eustace, Loder, and was sold at six months old to Sir Tatton Sykes. lie vent up with the . Sledmere yearlings at Doncaster last year, and was bought' by his' present owner, Mr. Bower Ishiay, fo.r ,8200gns. , , t - . To mark }iis wiupipg the Cesarewitch,; Mr. Robert Sievier volunteered to adeka valuable cup to one,of the stakes at, the Newmarket Coursing. . Meeting, to take place during the last week, of November. Mr. C- Bower Ismay, who won the. Middle Park Plate with Craganour, sent a subscription of twenty-five guineas towards the huridred-guine'a gold cup added to • the Newmarket. -.- Champion • puppy Stakes this year. ' ' V " It: is stated that there were no :fewer than, two hundred a.nd thirty applications from' persons willing' to perform »«., duties of stipendiary., steward, ~ * ' , The Chokebore horses :which were, sent to the Feilding meeting /were, shipped, ■home on. Monday night.- . . . It is "the intention of. the. owner.-of. Master Paul, at present spelling at Kiccarton,' to ship the: jumper, to Australi?, in the autumn, an<L to race him there over steeplechase courses. . The easy manner in which Obligant won the Manchester Handicap at Feild--ing will ensure the - bay ; colt _ swrting favourite in the. big handicap at VYoouyille to-day; - The brown mare, Lady Mildred, . was. shipped to the West Coast by the Mapourika'last evening, and will race thereduring the Christmas circuit. . ! ■ The southern horseman, L. 'who had been riding.at the Jeilding me?t-< ing, went: honie 'to, Lyttelton lost. evening. He returns-next .weak, and Will rule, Vinco and- King Try in. their engagements. at Bulls. /• v. ' , ~ , ■ Surahira was .w©ll ; backed on upth- dftys at- Feiklinf, and,.. after setting a bad Turi on ; the first day, she finished close \\p to the placed horses... On the second day she 1 had 'to; strike her colours to -Semaphore, who-- sfeins to ■lia.vo improved .out of all:knowledge,.'and won her double; in a most faadesmanlike mannßc. -with Semaphore out of tho way, Sijratur? will see n short price, in .' the. . Flying .Ilack.-. at Woodville to-day. v:.iV- .: There are two Trentham-tramed horeesin the Maiden Plate at Woodville On© 1 is Abercoed,'a member'of W. Davifss team, and the::.'.other., .is. one---M_;Ws breading, being by Field Bat+ei? from St. 'WiiifrSd, 1 •consequently' full- • sister.to..War, Queen... .The latter is. train; ed by J. W. Lowe, whose luck seems-to .be in. now. ■-v i , Master. Tupuhi is reported to ;be over the attack of, rheumatism which necessitated .his ,-ivithdiawal from his lillersUe engagements last month, and it is_quite likely that he will be a rutiner at Woodville to-day. On the second day of the •Auckland meeting he was. heavily backed in Christchurch for the. race .that he was scratched in. . ~ Owners are. reminded, that nominations for all,events <vt the Marton Jockey Club s Summer .Meeting, to be held oh. Jahuary 1 and 2, 1913, closa on Friday pest at 8 p.m. The various.events show an increase in stakes,'.the total amount to be raced for being The ohief . event on the first diiv is .the Marton .Cup. of 400 sovs., one iiiile 'and .a quarter. The Summer. •Handicap* of 300 sovs.,.on© mile and a vbstance. is thel. chief attraction on the second day. . \ >