NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 19

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

IBt Qlbncob.] ; Tuesday next is nomination day for all events in connection with the Egraont meeting, to be held on May 11 and 15. Acceptances for the Masterton meeting ' close next Friday. Achray, winner of the Ava Hack Welter Handicap at Awapuni, is a full-brother to .First Consul. Both horses were bred the Waikanae stud. 1 . . Gazette,, by GazSley, a. runner at the Awapuni meeting, bears a striking resemblance to Black Lupin. When the two horses are in tho birdcage it is most difficult to distinguish them. G. Price, with Bronze and Gerberga, leaves Palmerston North for Hastings this morning. The brown mar© is very well, ai'd will probably start favourite in the Hawke/V Bay Cup on Wednesday. The report that Gladiolo had left T. George's stables turns out to be incorrect. The chestnut maro is still' in George's care. C. Emerson has been, engaged to ride Merrivoiiia in. the Hawke's Bay Cup. W. Bell will ride Lord Possible in tho Porangahau Handicap. Johnston,'president of the Manawatu Racing Club, left yesterday on a trip to England. He expects to bo absent about twelve months. ' Charles Wood, at one tiihe a -.famous jockey, and now a successful trainer in England, expresses • the opinion that no amount of discussion will alter the present style of race-riding. - He believes that, "liko many other things, it has come to stay." He adds that there will always be succossful and unsuccessful jockeys, and that if asked who was the best jockey lie ever, know, his answer would be "Fred Archer." At the conclusion of the racing at Trcntham last week, Los Angelos was purchased by a local sportsman for SOOgns. 110 is being shipped from Lyttelton on Tuesday evening, and goes into- the Porirua stable. At tho Illawarra races on March 27, only two horses started in tho Flying Handicap. The . weight-adjuster did his work fio well, -however, that tho pair ran. a dead heat. The Soult horse Blakeney, who has been a most expensive horso to his new owner, was amongst tho winners at Ballarat recently. Master Laddo has recently been schooled over fences at Jlarton, and is reported to havo jumped in good style. He is to bo seen out in the Hack Hurdles at Hastings on Wednesday -next. (<\ Fivnn, who got it severe fall off Sunrav at Feilding, has recovered sufficiently to'leavo for Hastings, but it will probably Ixi many weeks before lie will bo able to ride again. Ono who was present at Awapuni remarked, after tho hurdles had been run, that such events in this country must be very easy to wiu, and suggested that ;i iair horso would "clean them up.' 11ns is right to a certain degree, and the horse which ho instanced (Chief Marshal) won at Napier with 12st. on ilns back, but it must bo remembered that now is a poor time for jumpers, and anything with any prospects at all is put into lavender ior tho winter season. At tho present time, North East, l'hroso, Espartero, Beacon, Otatara, Awahoti, The Native. Los Angelos, and Prophot are all spoken of as likely to win a National. Wei"hts for tho first day's events at tho Marlborough Racing Club's meeting are due on Tuesday next. Tho Wanganui Jockey Club's winter meeting, which is to bo held on May 22 and 21, should attract all tho best horses in the? Dominion, as tho events on both davs ft re liberally endowed. The principal races on the first day's card are tho Wai)»anui Steeplechase, of GOD sovs., about three"miles; the Century Jlurdles, of 300 sovs about two miles and a quarter; and "the Connolly Handicap, of 250 sovs , one milo ond « quarter. On the second -,lny, tho Grandstand hleeplechaso is worth "00 sovs., while tho May Hurdles and tho Empire Handicap are worth 200 sovs. eaeli. Nominations for all events close on Fridav, April 25. It is interesting to uoto that Jolly ]W"ar winner of tho Doncostcr Handicap," cost only 85gns. as a yearling, whilo (ho' Sydney Cup winner, Cadonia, wns ciieap enough when sold as a yearling for 510"ns. Jollv Beggar belongs to the family that produced tho New Zealand-bred iiiarc, Soluthti. while Cadonia belong lo a, family well known in New as

ho traces back to L'Oriont (Kuiglit of tho Crescent—Egyptian), a bay. mare bred in England in 1809, and iirported to iSevr Zealand. TJnfcit Cadonia camu thcro had for many years been ft big blank in tho I/Orient family, reaching back to the days of Daunt, Impulse, aud Uhlan. At the salo of Mr. D. B nick's liorscs in Palmerston North yesterday, Vibration was sold to Mr. J. George for 41gns., Gold Battery to Mr. D. Egaii-for 31gns., and Taonui for Bgns. Papolity and 1 ortraituro failed to reach tho reserve, winto there was no bid for Papatua, Itangiatui, and Abexbrothock. Three other horses (Coroniform, Sir l'Visco, and Ttosaka) were offered at tho samo sale, but there was no bid. Racing experts in England (says a writer in tho New York "Field ) awake to tho strong possibility ot an American-bred and reared colt the greatest of -turf prizes in WW—tu« Epsom Derby—by the fact that tho onlj two-year-old of 1912 that has yet beaten tho very fast Craganour is llock Flint,, a chestnut colt by Koclc Sand, out of lugger, a Meddler mare, which Air. Clarence Mackav mated wita Mr. Belmont s stallion in 1909, tho result .being- ,tli© youngster above-named, and which, in 1911, injj» sold at Newmarket as a yearling for bbO guineas. His purchaser was Mr. 11« Beddington, ono of Eugland s most prominent turfmeu, whoso horses are trained by Geoi'go Blackwell. who, at one ytnc trained for tho lato Mr. Pierre Lonlltud and won many races with Yankee horses, and therefore is no stranger to their peculiarities. Sinco Karamba was successful in April of 1907, a New South Wales horse has not won a steeplechase at an A. J.C. anvumn meeting. Nor is there mucli chancoof tho position being altered (says the Sydnc} "Referee")* away/from Randwick, steeplechosing is non-existent in this state, and our horses must continue at a (lisauvnntage when opposed to well-schooleu competitors from' New Zealand and \ictoTia. Cadonia failed to find a w owner at last Monday's sales (says an Australian exchange). He was passed m at GoOgns., ' and ho was worth moro than that on his probable earnings in place-money alone in long-distance. weight-for-age races, to say nothing of tho possibility of an occasional ivin. , ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. "Argue" (Lower Jlutt) —Have no record of the time of scratching. Your best plan would be to apply directly to tho secretary of the Manawatii Bacing Club. FIXTURES. April 1C and 17—Hawke's Bay J. C. Autumn. April 23 and 2-4—South Canterbury J.C. Autumn., April 24 and 25—Masterton E.C. Autumn. April 30 and May I—Marlborough B.C.' Autumn. May 8 aud 9—Ashburton County E.C. i Autumn,. April 16 and 19—Avondale J.C. Autumn. May 14 and 15—Egmont E.C. Winter. May 22 and 24—Wanganui J.C. Winter. June 3 and 4—Dunedin J.C. Winter.