NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1980, 10 February 1914, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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_ Tlio Taranaki Jockey Club's Cup meeting takes place on Wednesday ■ and i'lrarsday tins week. Tito Poverty Ilay'Turf Chili's Summer Meeting will open- on Thursday, concluding m the following day. A southern paper reports the Sato of Histnrictt© to an Auckland buyer. The Achilles filly ran in the Trial Stakes cm Saturday ami tarried Mr. G. 1). wrcpn wood's colours. Mr. 11. Whitney's horses—Odessa, Mount Victoria, and Kouinania—r<w niained at Kiccarton alter the C.J.C, Meeting, and are to be sent on to J)iinediir on Thursday. They face ;,t 'Wingatui next wools. Acceptances for the. Danedin Jockey Club's Meeting are duo oil Friday night. 'J Weights lot the minor ovents at 'the U'ttiigaiiMi Electing are due on Saturday. Thflro is a difference of opinion between handicappers—Messrs. J. Jjj. Henrys and O. lUorse—aa to the abilities of several of the horses nominated in the punedin and Waisgannj. Cups. ■I'or instance, tlw iormci- assesses Ivilrain and Eon Ton as equal., whilo Mr. Worse allows the latter 41b. Mr. Morse says that Tannhansor ;is n 61b. better lioreo than Thj-av but .the. JDuneditt luindicapp'er puts bat quo. pound between them. - Tito South Island Stipendiary steward, Mr. 11. 0, Duncan, was a'passenger- by the Main Trunk express last evening. He is on his -way north to officiate at ttoo ftetorua JUeotihg." ' ■ The champion Australian juiv.ijer, Bul.lawarra, is to be sent to' England to take- part in tlw next Liverpool Grand National, and the ex-New Zealand Wseman, J. X. M'Grogor, is going over to ride him. Blood will tell! This toukl not bo bettor exemplified tlian in the case of Busy Bee, tlio dam of two recent Australian winners (The- Bejjgar Mflid 'and Gold Mead). Busy 13eo. is a fnU sister to the- Melbourne Cup winners, Gaiilns and The. Oraftoi , , ai;d ska claims similar . relatioiisliip to tboso other distinguished performers, Alameno and Ga«loou, As a runner, Busy Bee. had nothing in her favonr, but, to; fromponeate for this, she lias been a good'producer. Sho was bred \>y Mr. J.'B. Smith at 'Pucka Tucka in 1900, and was by.Goiso from the New Zealund-brod liidnstry, by Mnttket from imported Pearl Ash. a Lord Clifdftn lisare, who desoendfc] like the ceiobfatc'cl Htmgarian perforiKer, the unbeaten Kiuesem. Pearl Ash was originally at old Glcnonniston stud te Victoria, and on its dispersal was sold t<? ge to New Zealand, along with the imported Realisation and My Idea. Major George certainly lnatlo a. very fine selection at thnt sale. At the time of prtireliase, Jfy Idea lutd the fatneus Nelson at foot, localisation prodased.' Maxim, whilo Pearl. Ash threw those wolHciwivn and highly successful stud matrons, Industry, Pearl, Pearl Pewler, ilolintte, etc, 'Betvvomi them tj-ie.y iiavo sriven ns ;i brilliant linfi of winners. With Bns.v I'ioo in Australia, and Melinite's two daughters—Armistice and Carissiina— in Now Zealand, the lino promises to i»o on for many years jot. It is worthy of note tliatCarissinvris bred on niiioh the siimo linos as Ganlus and Tim tinrttpr. Tlio- two iiist-named j\io by (iaxa from a (laughter .of .Pearl Ash. while Carissima is by a son of Goku from a datiKlitev of lViu-1 Ash. It will be surprising j if she <!oos not throw something- i-Sl-ep-I tionaily good whilo at ttit> stud. . I'liidor"'instructions from lite Heeistrar of tho Supremo Court, the stallion Field Baito.vy and the racehorses Somto, Gcorye First Batten , ,. ami on umiaraod I'is'li sistov to Adroit will, be sold by auction at H. Kinsan's stables, irentliam. on Jlnrch 2. ,„,.., VI 11 'IViwvd has the St. Ambrose, ccldino:, Firing Line, olijiaaofl at ihj Burodiii moetins;. The* liorsp »yill be- sent south by the Mimagaiini mi Thursday. Mr linnco Wood's filly. Snrtovrta, wil! Kβ* niiable to fulfil her cnga<r.cnipiit9. ftt tl'p bunedin mcotiiig. Tlie (laii-ilitcrj -of Srirtii has had to bo Mistered and n snell of a few wnnljs will be necessary before siio can R<i into work iißain. C. Kmcrson, who was disnimlified by Bio Canterbury Park TCiwinc; Club (Xew South WaVst, in eoiuipction with the rumiini; of the horpe Strathfield at n rereiit raeetiint, had his case'reopened before tho club yostenlay. A privatft cnlilojirnin received last e\ei;ing stated lliat uio Mitlencß had boon "sent kick to-the conimitlcft for deeisiow." Pwsumaljjy tin l Australian ,loekoy Club Coinniil-lec is the body referred to, FIXTURES. Feb. n-Tfo-tfinm Jockey Clul>. T'Vlj, 1), i;--Taras»ki Jockey Club. Feb. SB, 28—WaHSMitti Jockey Club.