NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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V I -:'-The ;? Jipsoni.; Derby .-will, b-ts ■ decided on Wednesday,'"andrjtho i-soe,sor.. the Oaks R-ii'l .take'-'placcioir.Friday.■ .' ■ ~ :■■■,■■= Ndiiuiiatiotis for' tlio Hawke's Bay ■ J.wla'v-.C'lub's-riVVinter- Meeting close on Vn&*y.\so§i;j.-\ .. ~. I ..:■ (>tvn(!rs"nro : rcmindcd that acceptances fur.the sii'st day's events ftt Uie Otaiti Jliiii.ri Kacwg.X'iub's meeting aro. due _ .. ■ ;A' Xew- Zealand 'sportsman, now residciit in-Sydney;" writes interestingly in rcfisieiico , to tho.probabk- attack oil* tlio A.J.C .Derby.. , by Domiiiion candidates, "t caii.'aesilro'-j'Ou,"-- he says, "that they will.-'have to be pretty good to win, as -the.-"coming thr«e-.year-olds over here- swo . lii«li-rlass. : Havdlo, Imshi. Slid Don So.lvo (put of .Solution) ail look like beii!(4 hign-elass ■■ tferee-year-olds. Tliu.v are . *t; present equal favourites for the-' A.J. O. Derby, white fiavollo is favourite i'of the ..V.H.C. , Derby, and is also well baekod' for the Melbourne Cup,'! Don So!vo, ijc adds, is going to prove a champion.

Tho writer referred to in the above paraffraph holds a wry iiigh opinion of Beau Soiilt(thc half-brotber to Bronze), who .fras, most unfortunate in being braten hi the Doncaster Handicap and the All Aged Stakes, ami who is lilsely to win a good rftc-e in the spriag. AnotSicr Now Zealand-bred horse that is sairl to be making great improvement is Mr. E. J, Watt's Moonbria, wtro hag fwen sent tip to Brisbane to compete, at the forth-coining.winter meeting. ' A rather gnod story is repoft-ed from Western . Australia, wherein the bookmakers are reported to h»v« been tho victims of a little "sharp practice." The trainer of a prominent candidate for an important race had duplicate iead-bag.;, and, on the day of the face. 5m saw to it that,they Here hnth filled with tl» same quantity of lead. After his jockey had weighed out, ifiad-bag No. 1 was placed on the horse and practicallv concealed by s "rubber," whiio lead-baa No. 2 was left ivithmit a»v show in the stall, which had lioen <iecnpieii by the horse. A clever pcrSmi (liscijv-ovcd this sccoiid lead-bag. He tlwttght that it was lead-bag So. 1. He should have toM the trainer. .Instead of doing so, lie quietly ftMsperal setnet hilts to tli© bookmaker*. ' The horse drifted in tk? betting. Still support, was forthcoming for him, and, lie dalv won. Btmi then the liooksaaliefn smilp<l confidently, but their joy was sli-ortlivpd. for, much to tlimr astonishment, the winner weighed in correctly, and his party had the pleasure of collecting a round sum. ' ■

■ L. Trail], it-ho rode Goodwin Park to victory in the May Hurdles at Wanganui. is now w«l! at the head -of tjio list of hurdle riders, and the premiership looks safe in Iris keeping. Already he has piloted fourteen winners, and on Severn! occasions in the past, a lessor totftl than this has won the ho?wiif|i Olysiefeh, a hftvse with ngreat repu« t,it.ioH ai a sprinter, was heavily backed in. Wellinuten, Christehureh, ahd Wattuanui for the Members' 'Handicap at .OnraarUi ntid cfrnsidersblc surprise wss when he ' did not start. ISqtiaJ sii.jtport fromotner.quarters will l>roUaiii.v be torthcoraing for him next time that he starts.. Lady; Louisa (7st. 61b.) sewis to be a Ukel.v candidate for faronrittsm hononrft mi the Eiiukawa Clip, at tho O'talji fflecting mist week. Several times jatelv she has been in a place in ojxsn spfhst races, ami, at ftastings oarly thb month, she !tet«d as runncr-nj) to Valhalla in the ParangishiHi Hnndiciip. She was finishing an well at the end ef tho rfleo. and gav£ the impression that she would %(:t s middle disfaynce Well, The same thing was notkeable in tho eonoludiiie event nt A«'a]HWi, where several ot those present ihfiught that shft had got wp in the concluding event, which was won by Svcaberg.

Kwnalpi, roniter-np to--Goodwin Park in tho Slay Ibirdles at Watiganui on Saturday, rs engaged in tlio Pacific Hurdles at tho Duncdrn meeting next week, If his owner decides to send him. south he can be certain that the company sit AViiigAtui contains nothing of the calibre gf Goodwin Park.

As was aiitieipaied in this column s-Qifl* 3ayea.Ro, the rftec whieh Goodwin Park li*d in the Century Hurdles at Wnnganiii sharpened him up considerate, and was just wliai he re-quired to fit him to win tho May Hurdles. ' Ho was successful in the same event twelve months ago.

Slanit-au, who has been. racing most c«nssstcntty of late, is to he Schooled ever hurdles, He will profeWy figure in tho hack hurdle events at the H'astiiigs aiid Napier meetings, sad if ho s«es tho post W. J. Porter will ride linn.

There will be racing at JJHeralie, Otaki. and Dnncdin nest week. Most of the leading jockeys will do ilro first two days at Otaki, and catch the north express for Auckland on tho evening «f the second day. This will enable them to do two days et KUorsik. Amongst the riders likely ta follow this plan are: A. Oliver, B, DwloyjW. Beii, C. Emerson, aiirl J. O'Siioa.

Accept-a-nees for tte first day's hatulieaps at the Dunectin meeting close on Wednesday.

Chan. Kerr, who dted at Christchni'ch last iveek, as Uw result of n trap accident, was a vwO-kiiawn trotting enthusiast of rnany years' KtaW;.*iK. Hβ bred and raced Quite- a number of trotters, and; for .years, was jr partnership with his brother > W. Kerr. He' was a first-class rcmsttian, ind was very popular Amongst- devotees of the IfjKlit-haf-ness sport.'

The Betting Bill in Austria has seemifigly been relegated to the Greek calends, siiico tho attitude of the Cfcech Opfrasition towards tho Government Patty has thrown th« whole jiroKramme of the • Government out of gear and compelled tire adjournmsiit of Parliament <says the Paris corß'spoiidffnt of the London "Sportsman"). Tho Bill remains m abeyance, although-it has been read us tiio C<iHimcM.is and Senate. The t'OoktMakcrs have bfeett saved for the momeiit, aiid nien well informed.hint that it will noli be brought fonfard next sc-ission owing to the opposition it bar. met witli from tho Upper House, which includes a number of gcbtlctnen who, sis breeder* awl owtiefs. arc quits nlive to the fact that the layer of adtk is an indispensable factor iu tho success and development <rf the Torf. This is a consummation eleroutly to be irished. and it will enable the layer to carry on his business, though, perhaps, not with tho ssfiie success its when me.tt who wandered from England found Vienna and Rndtipest a kind of Tom _ I'kWbr's grntuid, fflioro money was jacked tip fiasily. This hanging up this Sill will lie a 'won to the twfesswnals in Austria, for their business would have been as iiupaasihk a? it ffill bcoomo ia Germany to licen&o-hoklflrs if tlwy do net have' extraordinary luck.