NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2200, 13 July 1914, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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; -At ■Trentham,:'oii ; Saturday; morning some attractive•; gallops .were ■ recorded ■Practically. all tlie work was done on the grass, but; as a great doal of rain had falloii oyernight; .tne going was very heavy... About the best. performance ■ during the'morning'was that by Iting 1 Sault (M'Donald),; who covered•.six'• fur- v longs.' In the Parliamentary Handicap, King Soult willi probably ibe ridden by the Auckland horseman, C. Browne. : Mount Victoria,. who ' revels in the , mud, performed particularly well!while dashing oyer- four furlongs; .'/ - • The Parliamentary Handicap candidate,' Bluestone (StocMoy), 'covored a round at * a goocl' pace/ ■ The . son of. : Blueli«ht' goes' through ,tho mud remarkably well. " . Crown.. Pearl (Reid). galloped half a mile in 54sec. ~ Ho will-probably bo a .ninneivion./.tlie. second..iday.,,,. of the meeting. . • 'h ' Tj'. vAiiot'.iW'.candidato-tojgallop .wcllover . half! v .(Who is iengaged in tlißvTriarP]ate;''j.:: "■'.'"■■' Tho Aiiokland; ;hurdle' hdrso Admiral ; Soult was. associated nvith Try Fluke in a gallop o\jeiv 'seven 1 -• ~ Try Fluke's name appears among.the, entries for .the • Trial-'. Plate,/ ..butas the . condir .tions' of that event', horses, that' have not".won; a;'race of: the ofiiluo : of 50 sovs.; at the time.,of nomination,' he, will: no doubt v b'e started in tho To A:o Handicap. ■. v■ , // ' Rigo Park pleased the .trade watchers in his essay. He appears to have bene-fited-considerably by the-races lie had at Napier Park. Royal Arms (M'Swcency) and Julian (Cress) gave a good display- over ■ tho schooling hurdles".' ;'The former is one of the. most promising 'of the recent re- - bruits, to .the';hurdle -business. .. Altcar .(Campbell),' who is an excellent jumper, : was Schooled in company with Afcrry Guy (M'DonaldV.j ■ Fashion Plato (Thompsou) ;went 'over the hurdles alone,, as' usual .'gavea' finished.'exhibition.': V ■ Captain Jack (Rae), Bercola (Copestake) J. and'ltulfy (Kelly); went out together to bo' schooled l over the steeple'chas's fences. The last-uampd tiyo moved to-the front- and feqeed'' -.satisfactorily. Captain Jack was taken along too slowly, with the result that he_ refused at the logs. He/cleared the fence at the second attempt. .. ■ ; ~ , > Paritutu (M'Swcency), alone, ' went well over the steeplechase fences, as did Northern: and' Sportsmen in - company. 'L'lie last-uamcd was ridden by that accomplished horseman, R; Gray, v.'ho, by the way, still lias two of his'; broken fingers in splints.- '. Saturday's arrivals at Trentham included tho Palmei'ston North horses Portraiture, Manitau,' and. Ruatangata. A.-J.' Shearsby is to arrive this morning from Awapuni , with Byron and Ngarual J. Hathaway should reach Wellington by • the' : , same train with Heather, while G. Price is sending down Garanco. H. Cutts arrived from Riccarton yesterday witli Veritas, while G.' Scobie brought Silvor Shield north. . -. \ A. Oliver, who. \vill. have mounts in all tlio flat races at' Trentham on AVednesday and Saturday, leaves ;Palmer : i ston North for Wellington this afteruoon. '. .. - * Zephnron, winner of the Grand Nntibhal Steeplechase at Flemington on Saturday, is by the Now Zealand-bred Westerly (Westmerc—-Martha); In 1903 Westerly ran third to Marmorit-in the V.R.C. Grand National; Hurdles. ; Ohak'ea and Memo Valet, who are engaged in the hack hurdle race at Trentham on Wednesday, were both beaten in races at Rangiora on Saturday. -. ■ ■ - ••• Tim Doolan, a Wellingtoii Steeplechase candidate, won the principal event at tho North Canterbury and Oxford Jockey Club's Sports . Meeting ,at Rangiora on Saturday. In referring to the race, "The Looker-On" in the Cliristeliurch "Evening News" says:— "With tlie excoptiori of Tim Doolan, who won tho. Steeplechase, the rest or tlie' field wei'o about as bad a lot of jumpers as ever competed: in-a steeplechase.. Tim Doolan had a nice Working and schoolinggallop, and lie fenced particularly well. Alter the other three horses had baulked and fallen for soino tiino tho clerk of the course-went out. and called them off;" •— L ■