NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1676, 17 February 1913, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[Br Glencoe.] Tho programme for the Opunake Hack Racing Club's annual gathering, to be held on March . 17, appears in this issue, and is w : e,lr worth _ perusal by owners. Tlio principal-handicap is worth 120 sovs., and ths remaining events are endowed with good etakss. Secretary G. W. Rogers will receive, nominations up till a o'clock this evening. .

Inday next, at 9.30 p.m., is the timo for tho closing of. acceptances for the Wanganui Cup meetiug, which is to be held on Thursday anil Saturday next , • ♦ ■ ' .■Handicaps for tho'Nelson meeting are due to-day.- .

There will be raco meetings at Hamil.l'l Woodville, and Dunedin, this week. Lady. Kilcheran'has changed hands recently, and-is now owned by a Marlborough sportsman." , .

acceptances havo been received for tho Dunedin; meeting, which opens on \t ednesdny next: ..Tlio vibUowing uro the probable starters-(and riders) in the Cup: -Coromform. Kst. 121b. F. E. Jones; Mira, 11'nil?''r -.J?.', Carlovha, Wulsori; Parable, Bst. lib., J. M Combe;. Tannhauser, 7st. 211,., B. Defley; Brown Oiyl, 7st. 21b., C. Umerson; b , > 7et. 21b.,-R; Berry; Mumura, 7st. lib., P. Gibbons; The Cornet, (!st. 81b., A useful field of two-year-olds havo made tho final payment for tho Champion Stakes at Dunedin. Sir George Olifford will Iw represented by Veritas and, Nigltiratch. Mr. ,T. B. Reid has Ogier aud Rinaldo engaged. Fender will run for ?} r " », ■ Skinner, and Whizz .will carry Mr. John Griggs colours. . '

9 Hastings'trainer James Munn has leased Quartzite, a' four-year-old gelding by Gold Reef (imp.)—Str«sa-(imp.), from tho breeder, Mr. G. P. Donnelly; Stresa is an. imported mare bv Ohieto—St. Mildred, who cost Mr. Do'nnelly 500 guineas at tho Stead dispersal sale some years ago. Mr. W. Nidd's, speedy filly Pcronilla is to contest the J acjisoa Stakes.at Wanganui,'after which she will probably bo railed on to Auckland to dispute the Great Northern Champagne Stakes with Soltano, 'l'inopal, Mtrry Roe, and Lady Alicia. Tho two-year-old colt St. Francis, by San-Francisco—Miss Gladys; will ba taken in hand shortly by the Itawko's Bay trainer F. Davis. At the last yearling sales in Sydney, Mr. T. H. Lowry paid SOO guineas for St. Francis, who is a full brother to Seal Ifook and a half-brother to Gladsome and Apologue.

Tho three-year-old gelding Oxenhope, by Obligado—Cyrenienno, was sold last week by Messrs. Stead to Mr. E. Amos. Oxenhope, who has gone into A. M'Aulay's stable at lticcarton. will not fulfil his engagements at the Autumn meeting of tho Duncdin Jookey Club this week.

The four-yeat -old Antagonist, by Soult— Miss Annie, after completing a season at; the stud, returned to nis old quarters at Chokebore Lodge, and was put into work by E. Cutts with a view to racing in tho autumn. Bo was shaping well oh tho lliecarton tracks, but after a smart gallop ovsr five, furlongs recently, he pulled' up very lame, an old weakness in one of his knees having again asserted itself.' As a result, the attempt to tr.ilnJiim will probably havo to be abandoned;

1 There is. some talk of tho cx-New Ztaland trainer (M. T. M'Grath) returning here to settle after the Newmarket meeting next month.

■British Maid "and Suratura, in ,G. Neich's stable at Clareville, have been doing attractive work of late, and are oxncctcd to run well at the Woodville fixture. - Alecto, vhich is »ow trained by J. Phillips at Opaki, will bo ridden by A. Oliver In her Woodville engagements. At Awapuni last wcik T. Wilson commenced training-operations oh a Bezonlan --Armada filly, which ho recently aftquired. The dam of the three-year-old is by Torpedo—Variety, by Natator—Last Chance, by The Painter—Chance, by Sir Hercules—Finesse, so that it will be 'eeen that she lacks nothing on tho score of breeding. Vi, ono of the progeny of Armada won tho Harding Memorial Handicap At GisWne on Friday last. Tho nominations received for the Great Buster Handicap at'tho C.J.C. meeting next month total 47 as against '37 j*«t, while for the Great Autumn Handicap tI)V number i» 29, which ii seveii lees th»* Tail year's total.

Apparently li. J. Mason has not ret despaired of Canute coining to form. The dita>»oi*tißff Ch*rltifl*jcn« II colt, who it still a maiden, has been nominated for iho Great Autumn Handicap, otic mile aud a half, at the C.J.C. meeting. A Prts* Asseciatlen message from Melbourne stites that tho Wairiki gelding Horn# Rulo finished second in the W»rri«n Hurdles at.the Caitlfald meetins on Saturday, and another ex-New Zeslander in Blakenoy ran third is tin Snlisbury welter.