NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1876, 9 October 1913, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[By Glencoe.] To-morrow up till 9.30 p.m., Mr. A. Hathaway, secretary of the Masterton Racing Club, will receive acceptances for tho Spring Meeting. Entries for tho Trial Plato close at tho samo time. ; Weights for the first day's handicaps of the Wellington meeting aro duo tomorrow. Acceptances for tho Waverley meeting closo on Wednesday next. Mr. 11. Coyle will declare the weights for the Poverty Bay meeting on Saturday. Field Battery, eiro of Bronzo and Adroit, two recent winners, is standing this season at his owner's placo at Trentham. Field Battery is threequarter brother to Multiform, siro of BeragoOn, the A.J.C. Derby winner. . Mr. W. H. E. Wanklyn, secretary of tho Racing Confevenco, was a visitor to Wellington yesterday. Tho speedy Conqueror gelding, To Kaliurangi, has been sold to a Sydney buyer, and is to be shipped to his new hom'o on Friday. 'Tho cabled advico that the ex-New Zealand mare, Anna Carlovna, is likely to start a very short-priced favourite for the Caultield Cup on Saturday week, probably nleans that Sea Princo will bo reserved for tho Melbourno Cup. This is what was anticipated in this column somo weeks ago. If it is definitely decided that Soltano is to contest tho Stewards' Handicap at Riccarton, Mr, Lowry's colt will probably star.t a pronounced favourite. Thero already is a disposition to support him in doubles, although tho weights will not bo mado known till Friday of next week. The colt is engaged in tho Auckland Guineas, which raco is to bo run at the samo time, but his owner may decido to forgo this engagement in order to start hit? horso in the Stead Cup at Riccarton. Duke Footo has already won nearly £14,000 in stakes, and it seems as if it wero now merely a matter of good health for him to win nearly as much again in weight-for-ago races during tho present season.

Local pencillers report that business on the New Zealand Cup is better this year than for many years past. Several candidates have been well supported for tho big two miles handicap, and fresh ones, are continually coining into the market. At the present time Rinaldo, Bon Revo, and La Rcina aro tho actual favourites, but Sea Pink, Eniperador, Tannhauser, and Bronze have all been well supported. The arrival of Emperador from Sydney next week will cause R. J. Mason's charge to shorten in price, and lie must be given a good chance of success. In somo quarters thero is a disposition to decry him as a. lion-stayer, but thero does not seem to mo any valid reason for this. Ho ran a good raco behind the champion Duke Foote in the Spring Stakes, in which he carried Ost. He also performed creditably in tho Metropolitan Handicap under an impost of Bst. 31b. Tho time for the latter raco was 2min. 311 sec. Wero tho New Zealand horso 2.j seconds away—ho certainly would not be more—this would make his timo 2 min. 34sec. Such a gallop would not be a bad New Zealand Cup trial. Moreover, why should not Emperador 6tay? So far liono.of tho Charlemagne II stock liavo shown any partiality for a long journey, but how many of them havo been tried? Tho dam of Mr. G. D. Greenwood's horse was Lady Wa,vward 11, a daughter of the Derby winner, Ladas, and Vane who was a full-sister to Flying Fox.

The Littlo River sportsman, Mr. J. 'I l '. Buchanan, had a good innings at Wingatui yesterday, when his two New Zealand Cup horses—Tannhauser and Thrax—both scored under big weights. Tho victory of the former will mean a olb. penalty in tho Cup,, but Thrax has escaped any extra poundage. So far the trip to Randwick with tho New Zealand jumpers has not been; a successful one, and unless Glenmore mnkes good on Saturday, T. Lloyd's followers in particular will have experienced rather a bad time. Yesterday Marton wont out at a very short price, but as in tho case of Glenmore, on Monday, ho and his pilot, Adams, became parted. Marculfus, who won tho Grantham Stakes at Randwick yesterday, is a half-brother to tho Caulfield Cup winner, Lady Medtillist, and to tho Sydney Cup winner, Moorilln. As an example of involved orders by an owner to a jockoy, tho following is not far from the limit (says an exchange) Now, my boy, don't be too oagor to forestall the event. Keep your courage up and your hands down. I'lay tho game, and leave the rest to Providence. Yes, sir, replied tho jockey, in a confidential whisper, am I to lose or' win? And the owner said, "Yes." There is a process known to turfmen as a bit both ways.

FIXTURES.. Oct. 8 and 11—A.J.C Spring.. Oct. 8 and 11.—Dunptlin J .(J. Spring Oct. 10.—Masterton R.C. Spring Oct. 2.') and 24.—Poverty Bay T.C. Spring Oct'. 25 and 27.—Wellington R.C. Spring 27.—Wftvorley-Wnitotara R.C. Annual Oct. 27 and 28.—Gore R.C.'s Spring Oct. 28 and 29.-Groymouth J,C. Spring