THE TURF.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 9

THE TURF.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. [Bi Glencoe.l Tho Hastings, meeting, which opens to-day, shown, sec plenty of good racing and an abumlaiioo ot jumping. Tho traolc, according to imormation • to hati., is iu perfect'order, and tho' weather promises to bo tine, Procccdings will open with tho Hack Steeplechase, lor'which the southern-owned Daylight Bill may be tho prime fancy. Ho will bo riddou by H. Ooker, and schooled well oii Saturday last. Timothy is too small for tho "big fences. Tyrannic and Kolp aro none too sound, and Mollington is very backward. Daylight Bill is more forward than any of the field, as he has raced a lot over hurdles during the last few months. ' Odessa (Mr. M. Bull) ran well for aV mile at Otaki, and if tho paco is riot too seljd in tho first part he should run well in tliq Ladies' Bracelet. Sam Pan, who looks all the belter for the racing he has done lately, will bo ridden by A. M'Flynn in the Hawko's Bay Hurdles. The Ilawera; horse may bo expected to run .prominently* as ho will not be carrying anything liko the weight he has been loaded with lately. Cloudy Dawn will have Julian in the saddle. Flynti will rido Aruake, and Wallace Young will be up on Mescal, while the favourite Idealism. will havo the services of M'Oabe. •' _ Peary is'still tho most talked-of horse in connection with the, big Steeplechase, and a win for any of tho others would mean a good return to" supporters. The. Chief is a certain starter in this race, and there is a rumour about that ho may be saddled up again for the Hunt Club Cup. . However, it is very rarely that a horse starts in two steeplechases in one day. Gondolier 'looks, better than evor previously, but, he may require a race to sharpen him up. Mauitau struck himself lately, and is. an unlikely runner in the Hack Hur- • 'lies, for which Sunbeam (Coker), More- . canibe (M'Cabo), and Leapuki will be. the most favoured.. The last-named ran a half-mile yesterday in and as he .is tq be ridden by W. loung, he will come in for plenty of support. Tho Auckland-owned • Matawcrewere is also a much-discussed'candidate, and . ran well at Ellerslie last meeting. V. H. Collello's representative Linger Longer struck herself last week, and is an unlikely starter in the Hunt Club Steeplechase, for which, in the absence' of The Chief, Lady Bibbero is likely to be favourite. Tho Pebble "is a good 'fencer, arid can bo depended upon to complete'the course. ■ The luck of the draw will probably ' play an important part in tho decision of the Herctaunga Handicap, for which there are twenty-four acceptors. Some of the principal 'horsemen' will be seated as follows:—-Fair Rosamond (A. Oliver), "Mysteriach (B; Deeley), Red Book (L. Wilson), Mount Victoria (T. Pritchard), Portraiture (W.' Bell), The Great':M6gul (W.' Young), and Day Fly (W.Ryan). ■■ , ' ' Advice has been received stating that, the New Zealand trainer G. Price waß among' the bidders 'for tho imported horse Damim at.Randwick'on Juno 9, but stopped at'7oo guineas.' The ex-New Zealand jockey, J. N. M'Grcgor, is getting,.on as well, as can be expected with his broken" leg' (says the Melbourne correspondent of . the Sydney "Referee"). But he will hardly be able to ride at the coming V.R.C. Grand National Meeting. Ho says he will. . . •

Apart from jockeys' losing fee, it only cost £1 each race to start for th§ four £500 jumping f June G and 8 (says a Sydney exchange), and" yet tlib ( starters for- the "two hurdle races, respectively totalled ; only eight and_ seven, and fot 1 , the two steeplechases similar numbers. From this it will: be gleaned that'jumpers \ regarded as up to Randwick form are'somewhat scarco in Sydney at present. - .......

Woorak is again working at Randwick, (says tho Sydney "Referee"), andlooks big and brij-ht after his few weeks' spell., Tho"f>iitirar opinion, however, is against b"". as a Derby- possibility. "A great sp-inter, ..but., unlikely- 'to stay," is .nr. a lather frequent comment- by _fi* r "**'cnter3 of the Randwick trgiuing traciis... • ' •

'That good horse Dividend, by Simmer (imp.) from Lady Trenton, died recently at his owner's stud, at Pine ' Lodge,' South'Sh'ep'parton, l from peritonitis; Although Di.vidend won numerous weight-, for-age events, he did'-riot shine.in handicap events. '

_The-134th, Derby decided at Epsom •JSnglarid) last month was unprecedented in that the historic event was captured by a "foreigner" whose ancestry in'tail female is plebeian from the Bruce Lowe point of. view, 1 and which is. not even eligible for a'place, in the world's great stud book, nor recognition 'under recent enactments in tlie horse register if the Frenchmen. To all intents and purposes, however. Durbar ll's line, sine© it is traceable from daughter lo mother for a, period of some 125 years, is pure enough.

. Among the mares fioing.to the stud >n . Australia vlurinjr the coming season is Soyltoria, for whom H. Conlon gavo 9/5 guineas in, Auckland nearly- eit*h- • teon months ago. Unluckily for herpurchaser the daughter •of Soult and Pretoria went wrong after doing a ijttle racing in Sydney, and.tho only chance'' of a return of -his money is now through !><V Progeny. She goes to Tartan (Lochicl—Colours),