NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 5

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

r&J QIeHCOS.I Acceptances for the Egmont and Ta« ranaki meetings close on Friday ingBronze, Emperador, and Los Angelos may be' regarded as sure starters in the Egmont Cup. The first of Gravitation's stock to win n race was Protection, who is out of Safeguard and was bred by Sir Gcortio Clifford. Ho started 'second favourite and beat a good field in the three-year-old handicap at Warwick i''arift, New South Wales. ' .' At Foxton Waipakn scored her first win in the , colours of Mi-. W. Gray. She ran a good face on day, when beaten by Pereeler in 'tho Open ■Welter, and on the second day made nn exhibition of the oppositional the Hurdles. When owned"by Mr..Messcma sho ran third iira hurdle race at FcildiiiK about thrco years as:o. She is now a- stablo, mate of Lord , Renown, Lady Moutoa, and Co. Since joining thoiuntoKistered ranks, in Sydney the New Zeahnd-bred' Goodwin Sands has boon most successful. Recently, when ridden by P. .Moore, well known iii this country, ho scored in the principal handicap at Victoria Park, This was his third, successive win. Tho little Stepniak horse Turna was railed to .Waikanae yesterday and will .bo given a long spell , " im .his owner's station there. Tho appeals against the Duncdin Jockey Club's disqualification or OxenJiopo and the owner, trainer; and jockey will be heard at C'hristehurcll oil February 7. The llntt-owned Merry Guy is .beins 'spelled, and when he nest, (aces the starter it will probably be in a. hack hurdle race. J". N. M'Gregor won a jumping' double at Cuulfield on January }'. The exNow Zealafider is regarded jts far and away tke best hurdle horsemaniiti Victoria. '■ ' Gipsy Belle, who won the City Handicap at the- Wellington Racing' Club's meeting on Saturday, has rctniutxl her form wonderfully well, as sho is now in her eighth year, and lias' done- a lot of racing, all over the Dominion, since sho made her first appearance as a. three-year-old. 'Among her successes she numbers the Auckland Railway Handicap, Wellington Telegraph and Thompeon Handicaps. Gipsy Belle was bred by Mr. J. F. Eeid, and was sold as a yeariiiiu to Mr. J. W. Abbott for 80 guineas, so that sho. has proved a rare bargain, Sho is by Stepniak—licllo Glair, by Sti Clair,—Dioiie, by Trndticer —G'iklal '■'.Iiy'•'■■' 'Hav^nstforth— -Mermaid. She is easily the best of Bt>lie Clair's progeny, none of the others having attained any distinction. The North Island iuinlle horses Silver Monarch ami Merrjninx are entered at tho Duneciin meeting next month. Trenthatn stables will be well represented at the Dunedin Cup meeting. H. Kingiin has Silver Monarch and Siir* iovna; J. W, Lowrs Kilrain, Arawice, and Altcar, and C. Pritcliard' Mount •Victoriij and Odessa. An interesting position lias arisen'in Calcutta, over the identity of a horse named Shining Way. A cablegram received in response to a reference in Kiinland tends to show from the description -given that the mare known as Shining Way is not Shining Way at nil. Before Mr. Gaistaun left England this autumn he bought- , and sent out mveraj horses, among which was svmliosecl to be the well-known stayer, Shining Way, and when the horses nrjiverl in India Mr. T. Ferguson. Mr. Gladstone'*; trainer, nicked out the mie l-.e concluded was Shinim: Way and trained her for long-distance races. She run second in the seven furlongs Derctnber. Plate, itt the Second Extra Meeting, but is fpund not to bo able to stay over lone; 'courses. Hence the reference to England, "and-the complica- ■ tioHR that have arisen. ■ Jockey E. Lowe went to Lyttelton '< bv last" night's boat. He will ridrr ! Specialfnrm in the Midsummer Haiuli- : • can at Eiccarton. ! The well-known joekovs, H. Gray, W. ■ 'Young, and 11. Berry have north ' to ride at the Takapuna' meeting which ' opens to-morrow. One of Gray's mounts will be Cheddar in tho Cup. ; "Whnlebone," in the Auclkand : "Star." says: "Ancklanders present at • the Wellington mentina were somewhat amused at the- antiquated system adopt--1 ed by the Wellington Club in selling ; tickets at the tote, ,Bovr they expect I to liaridln a big sum of money is hard 1 to understand. h\ Auckland it is safe • to cay that ten tickets would be sold to one in Wellington, and an nltera- • tton is badly needed. One matter, how- > ever, in whijh they have an advantage ; over Auckland is in paving out, and no ' complaints were heard on this score. ; fixtures. . .Tan. 2S and 31—Tnknpuna Jockey Club. ■ Feb. 4, s—Eemont Hacine Club. Vob. s—Tft KiiHi KaciD? Club. Feb. ?—Bay of Plenty Jockejr Club. 1 Feb. ll—Eotthia Jockey Club. 1 Feb. IT. 12-Tafanaki Josksy Club. 1 Feb. 26, 28—Waoganui Jockey Club.