NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1753, 19 May 1913, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

|Br Glen'coe/] The time for receiving Acceptances for the Wanganui Jockey Club's winter meeting, to bo held on Thursday and Saturday next, closes at 0.30 to-uight. It might pay owners of steeplechase horses in' New Zealand to look up the programme of tho Australian Jockey. Club's winter meeting on June 7 and 9. It contain? two steeplechases worth 300 sovs. At tho present time, when most horses arc "in pickle" for the Melbourne Nationals an average horse could go over and win both these races. The death is reported from Southland of Mr. J. Beck, owner of the last Winter Cup winner, Magilala. Armagh, Okaihau, and Watchcliain arrived at Wanganui on Saturday. _ Tho first-named is said to lie an unlikely starter in the steeplechase events, but will be a runner in the hurdle, races. A. .T. MTlynn, who is at the head of the list, of winning' jockeys over fences, will rite Armagh in the Great Northern Steeples. F. Tutcheu will ride Ilautere, u;ho fcored in the race in ciuestion lost year. Flingot is being railed to Ellerslio todav in charge of Jockey J. Deerey, who will ride Mr. 11. M. Campbell's gelding in the Great Northern Hurdles. Lately I'lingot has been worked right-handed:' at Awapuni, and has done well. Bulletin, who pulled up very pore after his gallop in the Ashburton Cup, has boen"causing his trainer a good deal of anxiety for some time past. On Tuesday he was examined by a veterinary surpeon, who diagnosed the lameness as due to an incipient splint, deeply seated between the cheek ligament and the cannon bone. On Thursday the leg was operated on, a tine needle, at white heat, being pns-cd through tho periosteum in severaf places It is expected that the liorso will be in work again in a few wcoiis. Mr. A. G. Wood, of :'ireenmea(lows, Napier, has been appointed starter for fhe Poverlv iiav Turf Club. Mr. Wood is now sir, Her lor both 1 ho leading clubs as well as some of tho smaller elu'c in the Poverty Bay district. The Kllersiie trainer, J. Chaafe. 'has decided that the St. Paul horse Wai.iri, winner of the A.K.C. Easter Handicap, will not stand another preparation, and he has shipped him homo to his -owner at Ilawera. While schooling the grey gelding.Daylight Bill over the hurdles r.t Kicc.vtnn l"st. week, the local horseman, W. Bush, received a nasty fall, but escaped, luckily, with a severe shaking. The New Zealand cross-country rider, Albert Grav, is at. present an inmate of St. Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne. Tho latest news concerning iiim was tin', tie was to undergo an operation, rendered neecs-ary by iwo severe falls while ruling in Tasmania recently. \l (lie Wurrnambool meeting on Mav fi.'lhe Hurdle Kaee was won by tligli ('oui'l. wlu> was ridden by the New i.iaInud horsem.'ii). ",lnc" O'Cotinell. At. tho same meeting the Auckland uorseman, S,

" T*r;- • Nonry, V.nn sWmi'd iii Hie Trial Hurdles ou Spanish Trial'. Eight horses from the I'orinia stables were railed to Wauganni ou Salii.' 1,1). The team consists! of Dearest, Stepney, and Aloha, together with the jumpa-s, Tho Native, Hawick, Tauira, Fireworks, and Salopian. iJ. M'Swceney will tide The Native, and \V. J. Porter will le up on Jtawick, ljotli of whom will start in Hie big Steepiechaso on Thursday. The jumping seaton proper opens wiflu tho \Vnnganni meeting this week. It cannot bo said that Hie outlook, so far, is very promising, and tho entry lists do not contain tho names jf toiyth'su ot outstanding form. All the old servers aro nominated, but very few now ones nio forthcoming. Perhaps by the timo that ihu season advances a little tliero uiav bo ail improvement, but, at present, it certainly looks as if we will bo fliort ol jumpers—especially eood ones. Our Mnstortou correspondent states that Mr. John Cotter, known in racing circles as "Jack Cooper." who has been identified witlt racing stables in Wellington province for a number of years, died 'n tho local hospital yesterday. He leaves a widow and family.

The North Otago Jockey Club's meeting takes placo on Thursday and Friday next. iiibswn Pippin, who ran third to Corazon anil Hoanga in tho July Steeples at Trenlham two years ago, will race in tho hurdle events at Oainaru this week, and will afterwards take part in the evosscouiffry events at tho Duuedin Jockey Cluij's winter meeting.

Lorenzo, who won the Manchester Clip on Friday, furnishes a striking examplo of how much a thoroughbred may improve after failing in early three-year-old races. Previous to winning the Rutland Handicap, one mile and a half, at Newmarket, on October 29 last, lie had competed m ten races as a three-year-old, but had always disappointed. That was, in fact, his initial success in thirteen essays, the son of St. Frasciuin having failed twice in his-two-year-old races. Ho followed up his Newmarket victory by carrying off the Liverpool Autumn Cup in November, nv finished in such rcsaluto style that he lost liis rogue's reputation. This season luv only important spring engagement was in the City and Suburban Handicap, m which, with 7st. 'Jib., he finished third to Brillmoro and Limon. Tho horses tlu were entered for the Manchester Cup on Friday included such as Warlmgltam (winner of tho Cesarewitcli), . Scofs' Saint (winner of the Liverpool Spring Cup), and Maiden Brlegk (second m tho St. Legcr).