NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1881, 15 October 1913, Page 5

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

FBY Glencoe.l

L-Dx ULENCOE.J Acceptances for the A.R.C. City Handicap close on Friday. Up till 9 p.m. on Friday night Mr. A. E. Whyte, secretary of the Wellington Racing' Club, will receive acceptances for the first day's handicaps, which are to bo run at Trentham on October 25. The Masterton Racing Club's Spring meeting will be held on the Opaki course to-morrow. Wellington patrons •may take the mail train, which leaves the city at 7.50 a.m. A train leaving Masterton at 5.45 p.m. will bring them home. . Owners should note that filial payments for the Wollesley Stakes close on Friday next' at 9 p.m. Tho Moeraki, which is bringing over the racehorses Soltano, Emperador, Cherubini, and B.anksia, together with several prominent sporting men who have been at the Randwick fixture is due to arrive here at noon, to-day. The withdrawal of Ogier, Martel, and Mowbray from tho New Zealand Cup means that Mr. J. B. Reid will not he represented in tho big handicap oil November 8. Amongst the horses likely to see tho post aro: Bon Ton, Bon Revo, Bronze, La Reina, Undecided, Mira, Haskayne, Emperador, Quarantine, Potoa, Thrax, Sinapis, Sea Pink, Imagination, Mangaroa, and perhaps ono or two of the 6st. 71b. division. Tho acceptors for the Caulfield Cup, which is to bo run next Saturday, number 23. Notwithstanding this entry, a very short price is being taken about the ex-New Zealand mare Anna Carlovna, who (judging by her showing in the Stand Handicap, 1 mile and a quarter, in which she carried Bst. 111b. and won in tho fast time of 2min. Gjfsec.) appears to ho at the top of her form. Her presence in the race has "hogged" tho market. With the exception of Mountain Princess, anotlior four-year-old mare, very little else is being inquired for as likely to win the £4000 race. Considering her form in this country, Anna Carlovna appears to bo remarkably well treated, and the liandicapper must now be feeling a little uncomfortable about her. It would be difficult to find a better public trial than that quoted above, and, With 171b. less to carry, the mare can be expected to run a very fast twelve furlongs on Saturday. Sho will bo ridden by tho crack jockoy W. H. M'Lachland—often callcd the "Cup" jockey on account of having ridden tho winners of all the big cups on various occasions. Beragoon's win in the A.J.C. Derbywas worth £4260 to his. owner, Mr. J. E. O'Brien. Considering the time put up by Cagou in the Metropolitan Handicap at Randwick, it seems just a little doubtful as to whether the great Duke Foote could have won had his owner elccted to start him. Coy, who won tho Walcari Hurdlo Handicap at the Dunedin meeting on Saturday, is entitled to rank among the voterans of the turf. He appears to havo made his first appearance in a race in the spring of 1908, when lie was described as an aged gelding, so that he must now be at least in his twelfth year. Ho scored his last success over hurdles, prior to Saturday, in November, 1910, when he won at tho South Canterbury meeting. Later ill that season he won in a flat race,'* tho Trial Stakes at Rivcrton. Then ho had a spell for about two years, reappearing over hurdles at the Dunedin Winter Meeting last June. To those who hold that the form of Mountain Princess in the Caulfield and October Stakes (both of ono mile and a quarter) entitles her to as much respect for tho Caulfield Cup at Anna Carlovna, it may be pointed out that weight-for-age form is very unreliable in Handicaps, and rarely works out. Proof of this is to bo found in the running of the New Zealand horso Pink 'Un in the Caulfield Cup of 1908. Tho Strowan horso won the Menisie, October, and Caulfield Stakes, and started a pronounced favourite for the Cup, but he was never in the hunt, and finished out of a place.