THE TURF.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1731, 23 April 1913, Page 10

THE TURF.

❖ NOTES AND COMMENTS. |Br Glkscoe.] Nominations for all event.-; at tlio Waiig:i:iui due on Friday night at !> i>.m. Acceptances for the Marlborough meeting close to-night. 'I'iie South Canterbury Ai'.'.Tioiil noting opens at Tinsaru to-d.iy. and v.ili conclude to-morrow. The Masterton Club's Autr.mn liicctir.jr commences to-morrow. «!*l v.iii bo _ excluded on Friday. '.the went is tuned fur 12.3(1 ;i:;:L irom M'elliJi:;ion by tho train w.'ll orrivo ;i< tlio courso in am: Usun ior it. A return train leave.} Opai'i ar. :i,45 p.m. Hicrarfon as-i V, ii'rahii form points to Speciaifonu being iavuuriie in the Wa:oiilyke Wciler a;, '.i.';::v.uni to-day. A.s showing what eonie >ot' the riders think of tho -Ronti'arm mare's cjsiufi, it may bo said that tho northern jockeys, Hatch, Hcid. and Decley all telegraphed requests for the mount. . Player gave Hurakia. 3:b. and beat him easily on the iirst day at Hastings. With 121b. separating the pair in tho Oliitu Hurdles, the latter turned the tables on Player, who doe's not strike one as being able to carry weight. The Hague is a beautifully-bred filly,' and should be worth her weight in gold as a brood mare—by Sfepniak (5). by Nordenfeldt (13), by Musket (3), by Toxojihaliie (3), her dam l'eaea (2) by The Officer D (g.g. son of Fisherman 11), from Content: bv ih-caduought (-M, from Lullaby, by Apreinont (3). Musket on Fisherman is a cross of blood that Australian breeder.-) aro paying a deal of attention to at tlu> • pre-.■jut time. Moreover n mare so inbred to the No. (3) family would be suited by almost any figure that a .stallion claimed. Tho family contains all tho _ necessary elements of sire and running lines.

lloth of tho Karamu jumpers, Idealism and Bollin, were out at Hastings, but gave sorry displays. The former looked very gross, and will require somo severe work to fit him for the winter season.

The Napier owner, Mr. P. Neagle, had one of his annual Mil-prises in store for tho Hastings people in Sir _Maseley—a gOi>:l-looking half-brother by King's Guest to Theodore. Kight pounds over-weight was put up to secure the services of L. Wilson iu the Juvenile Handicap.' The colt began smartly, and had Historietto doing her best until well in a line for home, when the superior condition of the latter c:u'*ied her 011.

Harry Jackson, for many years a wellknown trainer in different parts of the Dominion, died at Auckland 011 Saturday. For tho past few months ho had been suffering fropi an internal complaint,. and was in Auckland consulting a specialist when it carried him off. Ho leaves a widow and four voung children, who reside at Moi-rinsvill?.

Labour Lav was lame after her fall in the Burke Memorial Handicap at Hastings. She will have to be spelled for some time.

Obligant, who broke down badly at tlio recent Awapuni meeting, is still in a very bad wnv. As 50011 ns ho is Able to walk •soundly', J. Lowe will lake him up to his owner's place at Clisborue, whero he will be turned out. Charleros?, who is to carry Mr. Loring's colours in the Maiden event at Opaki, will not bo dispatchcd from Trenthaui until the morning of the race.

A visitor to the Hawke's Bay Cup meeting expressed the opinion that tho racing thero was the best which he. had witnessed ill New Zealand. The fields were largo and the finishes close. This was tha caso even, in tho liurdlo races—evehts_ which are genrraily won by a good imtigin.

There was some trouble in conncction with the Ladies' Bracelet Handicap at the New Brighton Trotting Club's meeting on Saturday, <iuc largely to the siza id' the field, tiiore being twenty-six starters. Dartmoor rraral up at the start and iell, his driver, W. Harris, receiving some nasty cuts 011 the face. 'There were several collisions in the first two furlongs,, and Belle Elmore, after getting rid of her driver, completed the course without a pilot.

Two more yearlings, making a total of tou f'ov the season, art'ivod at Riccartoii from Sir tieorfjo Clifford's Stonyliurst stud last week, and arc now quartered at Chokebore Tlioy aro "\Vise_ Bird, by Treadmill—lilenowlct, .and Bold Stroke, by San Francisco—Brave Heart.

While doing her preliminary, before the start of the Mount Roskill Handicap at the Avondalc meeting on Saturday, Salvia iwico unseated her rider. A. J. Al'Flinn, who. however, escaped unhurt. In this run down the straight, in the Brighton Handicap, at ihe New Brighton Trotting Club's meeting on Saturday, Slay Dillon bored out, leaving little room for Lord llcathcoto to pass her. After the race the stewards held an inquiry and administered a emit ion to C. Rhodes, the driver of May Dillon. Spinster's rider was weighed'out for the Dominion Handicap at tho Avondalc meeting on Saturday, but, when being saddled, the marc was badly kicked in the shoulder by another animal. The services of a veterinary su'rsioii had to be obtained for Spinster," who was then withdrawn from tho race. The old Cesare.vilch winner, Submit, has recently been figuring in selling hurdlo races iu England. He was bought in after his success at Hurst l'arlc on March 7.for 205gns. At Sandown on the previous Saturday ho realised 'iSgns less, while at Sandown on February i! 7 a bid of 85gns. bought him in, and at Hurst'l'arlc earlier in tiic month ho was retained at Togns.

FIXTURES. April 23 and 2-t—South Canterbury J.C. Autumn. . April 24 and 25—Masterton It.C. Autumn. April 30 and May I—Marlborough E.G./ Autumn. May S and 9—Ashburton County K.C. Autumn. May It and 15—Egmont E.C. Winter. May 22 and 21—'Wanganui J.C. Winter. June 3 and i—Dmiedin .T.C. Winter.