NOTES AND COMMENTS.
[BY Glen-COZ.! The Rangitikei meeting on Wednesday and Thursday is the oiily engagement for sportsmen this ivcek. The acceptances received are quite up to the average, and the meeting should be prodaetivo of some interesting racing. The unlucl?y Sartovna lias again been in a wire-fence, and, at pi'ascsit, is in a had way. Her neSic forearm was : severely cut, and it was necessary to put several stitches in tho wonai'd. At present the littlo mare cannot walk, and a spell of sis months will ho nsces* sary. A full-brother to Chillies _ (Achilles — Bellicent) is the latest addition to C. Pritchurd's stables at Trentham. Twentv-ono horses have the first payment for tho Great Easter Handicap, and fifteen have had their Great Autumn Handicap engagements continued. There is a further payment for both races, which has yet to bo made. x i Judith,' tho tlfree-year-oM full-sister to Tlirax, registered her first win last week when she scored in tho Trial Plato at AVaimate. Those that finished behind licr were not a good lot, but the filly could do 110 liiaro than win. As she has been unlucky in the past, she may now have a turn of goad for* tune, and win again shortly. Very good entries liayo been received for tho Wairarapa Racing Club's Ksister ' meeting. The hack events have filled very splendidly, and tho juveuilfis are. ; also, freely nominated. Peroneal, Bluo Lake, Iminor, Dearest, tffld Stepney arc engaged in tlio principal handicaps. No fewer than thiriy-otm horses have been accepted for in tho Easter Handicap at Ellcrslie. On present appeal ances, a record field is likely to contest tho big mile event. Kilts seems to have taken a decided abjection to racing nowadays. In the Stewards' Handicap at Wabnate be turned round as tho barrier
wont up, ami took no part in the race. He started in the last event, tho Farewell Stakes, but was never dangerous at any stage. One of tho oldest jockeys in England is Harvey Covey, who is 73 years of ' ago. Ho is fit and well, and fides out for T. Young, the Findon trainer. Ho lias ridden many winners in his time, and ho stewed Combury to victory in I the Great Metropolitan Stakes in 1895. The Otago District Committee has refused tho application of Mr. 18. Ayntes . for a rehearing of the Oxenhope case. He will now apply directly to the Racing Conference, and, if that body deems fit, it may order the Otago ■Committee to rehear the case. J. Fryer has engaged the hurdle. i liaises Bercola and Cornelian at theCJ.G. Easter mooting. Tho first' named is also an acceptor fortheßrigfo- ! ton Hurdles, to be decided at E'ikrslie ou Easter Saturday. Con the Sliaughraun (recently acquired by a Canterbury owner. <ritb a . view to racing over sticks) has been nominated for the hurdle events at tho : forthcoming C.J.O, meeting. The horses nominated for the Autumn Plato at tho C.J.C. meeting are not a very good lot, and tho race, at present looks a good thing for one. S. Campbell, who rode Beval to victory in the Waimato Cup, was formerly attached to R. J. Mason's stables. He ■has been engaged to ride- tho Finland— Lady Symonds gelding in the. Great Easter Handicap at Xliccarfaoii. The Boniforai roar-e, Flora Macdouald, ha,s paid up for both' af the big handicaps at the C.J.C, meeting, but it is no certainty that the Duhedift Cup winner will see the post in either. aha has not shewn any signs of lameness, but t}» fact remains that she is troubled in. both front legs.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2014, 23 March 1914, Page 6
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