NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1701, 18 March 1913, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[By GiENCoa.] Acceptances and final payments for events at the Canterbury Jockey Clubs meeting must be made by to-morrow al for the first day's events at the Feildirig Jockey Club's Easter meetins dOso -at half-paet eight o clock to- • night! with the club'£ secretary,- -Mr, h. I Goodhehere/- : -mA mo* <vm Nominations for' tlie Manawatu ''Racing'' Club's autumn meeting close at 10 o clocktonight with the club's secretary, Mr. :J. 11. Johnston, Palmerston North. • Dearest, in charge 'of H. 'Telford, was railed-to Auckland on. Sunday evening. In the same! box was Winning Way, who is'tt>'represent Sir Geo. Clifford in 1 the Great Northern. Oaks. While., in Sydney' in tho spring, Iheo- • dore "received <i nasty knock which ■ develbped into a bad splint. • It has since been found necessary to pin-firo. the son of Merriwee, but grave doubts are expressed about his ever racing again. Merrivoiiia has been troubled with a Curb for some time past, but it has yielded to treatment, and Mr. Ames's mare is again a regular worker at Trentham. Her next public appearance may be at the Thompson Handicap Dieting nest month, and after this she will be raced at the Wangamii May meeting. Sir Solo, in charge of \V. Garrett, is to be sent south' to-night to fulfil his en- . gagements at Riccarton next week. Sihapis was* brought back from Nelson . on Saturday evening; and railed home ' to Featherston yesterday. The little bay ir.nro looks none the worse for her exertioAs at Nelson, and walked off the boat perfectly sound. Her owner, Mr. A. U. Durrant, has a half-sister to her, by •- Bezonian, which will later on form one ' of H. Fletcher's team.

G. Price, with his Riccarton. team, arrived from Awapuni jesterday intending to procecd south the same evening, .but he found that all tho available boat space had been secured'by tho Defence Department, so lis was compelled to postpone his departure till this evening. Some "few week* back a Sydney . paper published a statement that Lady Medallist had gono wrong, and would never raco-again.■ Appirently this is incorrect,'as the! St. Alwynlie maru yesterday ran the bsst gallop at Randwick. . Now that Valido' is sound, and standing up to his work, it is quite on the cards-that thj English-bred colt may SCoro a win;at the A.J.C. Doncaster meeting. There Is no doubt that Mr. G. D. Greenwood's colt can gallop fast, and in sorno quarters it is said that had ho not gone wrong ho would havo won last year's Middle; Park '•

.Discussing the running at the Rosehill meeting on March 8, the Sydney "Refereo" says:—Lal'ello was selected as "a good thing" for the Nursery Handicap, but her backers lost their money Without getting a fair run, as in attempting to get through she fell half-way down the straight. Kent 'Loch and Podaxon imulo all the running, but though at the. Leger the former's chance appeared an excellent one, lie was fairly outstayed by Beau Soult, a half-brother, by Soult, to Bronze. 'At last season's sales at Randwick Beau Soult was ono of the lot submitted on behalf of Mr. G. 51. Currie, but, failing to rcach the reserve placed on him, ho was leased to Mr. B. 11. Richords, a patron of P. Nolan's stable. Not onlj- is Beau Soult a good-looking colt, but a.game ono as well. Mr. James Muir has a smart-looking rising two-year-old at Wairenga by tho Ascot sire "Penury from • Folly, dam of Wainuna, • Rauparaha, and others (says the New Zealand Herald"). Folly, who is now well over 20 years old, is this season in foal to Builvon. The stallion Pygmalion, who was .bred in Now Zealand in 1887, and was by Apreinont from Nautilus, by Traducer from Wnterwitch, was destroyed in South Australia early this month. In New Zealand, lie did particularly.well as a two-year-old, and ,on coming to Australia rared in tho , coloura of the late Mr. \V. R. Wilson, winning the Hopetoun Cup and Malvern Handicap the same day. He was a tremendous galloper in private, and oil tho strength of - track form he was sent out favourite for the Newmarket Handicap of 1802, but ran nowhere, and did no better later the same year; when ho favouritism with Gnaroo for the. Caulheld Cup. For fifteen years prior tojvis death ilio was located at Inchiquin, Ciare, and though hi.-i opportunities with first-class mares were very limited, ho sired numerous winners, some of the latter being specially good jumpers. Tlieso included Yudnapinna, Golden Grain, and Royal Malion, while among his best-known winners on the flat were: The Greek, Lord Malion, Stray Lad, Cyprus, and-Marble Maid. Tho New, Zealand-bred Raupare (Kilcheran—Moreze) is still winning in Victoria. She won a double at the Natimui> races on .March 5. , Nothing is' to come of ihn suggestion that the Wellington and Manawatu Racing Clubs should exchange their Autumn' dates. It was put forward too late to permit of the Manawatu Club making the necessary arrangements. It would have meant .not only tho postponement of the club's meeting,' but also the abandonment of the polo gvmknna, which is to be held at Awapuni during racs week/