NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1981, 11 February 1914, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Hh' Gr,ENcp£:i c '(here wilt be racing at NVv Plvmouth' ,'.y and to-uiorrow, and at Gisborno on liiursd.-iv and Friday. The, former iMM-hug ,iay much the wunc horses, " ii " a.'WitioiiK, as wero engaged at the J'jgntont- meoting last week, the ilawora iorm should be valuablo co backers 111 assessing the chances of 1 \?'. 10l,s candidatos. A similar slate ol aftaii-s prevails at- Oisbftfiw, where, last weeks iorm will duubtWss workout well. Jockeys R, Berry and K. Lowe canto up irom toe south yesterday. Thy former yoes to New Plymouth, where l-i-pi '.as a i'ldo 111 every Hat race, and the latter goes to the Poverty Bav Meeting. Cood light-weight jocki-vs are 111 t much demand ilu sc davs. IJerrv has already got a "full book" at Wiligatui nix't week and yesterday the Awap-nni hght-wmght , Bel! rehised. 110 fewer than four difl'ereut rides in tho. D'une•m J'ndei'stood that Bell Mill ride Itreiiomo in the Wanganui Clip, and that Borrv will have Hit mount on Los Angelos. Mr. is, Moi'-se, handicapper to tho WfingiHiui Jockoy Clvih, was ttnluclsv 111 having to declare his weights for thou angamn Cup ftiid H.andie-ap oil the morning of the Mids-umme-r Handicap at Riccarton. Sauei, wlto got ,in at Tst. ill the sprint event,'will now have: to put up a Tib. penally but if the haiulicapper had the chiuico lies wt-.ujd probably put considerably nwro 011 him. At Dnnedin he in awarded Sst. 21b. in the Publicans' Handicap, so that it looks likely tliat lie will be sent to Wanganui, Roputatio-i will, it is' understood, fulfil his ongaHeiuent ,in the Jackson Stakes at Wanganui. This is a wcight-for-age event, without penalties or -allowances, so that t-liiJ 1)1 ack colt should bu able to show his best form. M.r. J. O Moara's hnrdle. mare Fashion Plate, and her half-sister InToy Gun, are again to be placed iii work, Some of the riders seated in the Tara--naki Cup «i'o as followEinperndor, W, Yomig; Cheddar, 11. Gray; Byron, 8.- Deolcy; Allegation. J. Cai'iquest; Stepney, W, Bell; Peroneal, O. M'Artc'i; Mulga Bill, T. Goddard; Osil tho Shaughraun, R. Berry. . Thoio was some doubt about Cheddar starting in tho Taraniiki Cup, as. lie was galloped 011 at Takapvma, and his hocks got stripped. However, ho has made a good' roCDvery, and is regarded.' a-s ■ a■' sure starter to-day. • Lord Lupin, who figures in the S-t-eiv-ards' Handicap tc-dny with fenlj; fst. 4fb.'011 his back, started ill the Egmpirt Stakes k&t week, and with 9st,"he Ic-d tho field for over lite furlonge. ' Tliis is noh_good news for tho local ownev, Mr. W. Nidd, who has I'eronffla en- , gtged with Sst. 21b. 011 her back?' All going well in tho meantime,Rinaklo, who recently ha'd his throat lanced, will be !i runner in tho .'s>uiiiiiii.n (hip next we?!t, and will he ridden by' F. E. Joiii?s, Most likely ''is stable companion Peg will be left at Riec-arton, tor she has been oil tho sc-eiw sin-ce the Tveutham Sleeting, and must be backward in condition. A iiqree that got a particularly bad run 111 the Scurry at Hawera was Mr. S. Pitt's Martimiale. He was knocked about a lot on tho journey, but at the fiuiaii nothing was going better 'than him. Ho is engaged in tho Tmiftru Hack at New Plymouth to-day. and lm6 only Cst. 121b. against'liis 9st. t't Ba-v.'c-ra. In Italy recently .the' Prix -Chiusnra, seven furlongs, olio of tho biggest of Italy's races, was won, by the twa-vear-old filly. Faiista; by- Spearmint (son of Carbiuß)v-.'".yho : was -ridden by the esli. 11. Hewitt. '' < A tho Winter.edition of "Rufi's Guide, tottho Tur.f" gives 1 r Mie amtiuiil won in. stakes in Enginnd di.-rtng the pstst tliirty-Lwo years; , :i.nd. last season's' aggiogato of- ;.C573-> jfS7'--*-is:" ' far ahead of. any' previous -.yc.aiv It exceeds by about • .CIOO,OOO tlir figures of IBS 2. I.t»was not until IS9S that the aggregate or stake-money woitiin lingland. exceeded £500,000, but- never jjiiice has it-boon less,-and with npw.ards of 'fifteen and a half millions distributed during the period of thirty-two' years, 'tile'average Works out at nearly half a million annually during that period. Murillo, who is reported to have been Roid'in Australia for 1500 guineas, was ths. sire of fourteen winners hist season, Between ti'.otn they won 30 raves, worth over £-1000. ' > One 'would no"? expect that- there weivld be a great many representatives of .Draco Lowe's; Xo. 31. family racing south of l-bo-Ijlii-qJ Nor are there. It ■ is characteristic o-f the family, however, that its representatives in Australia ; have nearly all.been in the i'loiit ra.uk ] on the racing track—champions of their | day, such as Majestic, Bimni'o Cli»l, J. Scottish King, Ai.aluma, Malvoliu, Clrt'sney, Jtouiitaiu. Ki'ug, and Sigiior.' This season the Maine of the family is being (sept to tho foro by the briiliant- unbeaten two-> ear-old Woorak,. His meeting with Traquettc, whenever it occurs, will be i.i:c big event of the .. lacing year, l'ossibly they may both " start in tho Oiikleigh Plate, which has '■ been won 011 more tkau one pecasioji by a two-year-old. •