NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2227, 13 August 1914, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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The • Canterbury Jockey Club's Grand National Meeting will be advancod a further stage'at Riccarton to-day; . The .principal .event will-be.tho Grand, National Hardies, in which several horses will make, their first appearance at the meeting. ' - 1 - . '-■ '■". . - ■. ■. -i ■' ■ The opening event, is , the* Hunt Club Cup, in which Lady' Bibbero' d winner, at Host ings, . and Tolstoi,' the. Tally-ho Plate: Winner, are .the .best keoivn of the. performers. ■>.'■ ".-,.'■;:; ■'■ ••"' ".. •■'.-" ;' In the Sumner Handicap Banian is;top-' weight with ;,llst. u 7lb.' '..The /Karauiu ■ gelding' finished a long way -hack .on" Tu.es-. day, ;and seemed- unable' to , act , on heavy-going; (Chrvßotis ,(8.. Deeley)';is Making ■ her' first- appearance at; the. meeting, but 'slio* has* l>een . wofKing as'.good, as the' Winter Cui candidates, aad may.bo the favourite.; ah impression atooad that' Crpwn'Pearl;' doing his tracks' , at and with Oliver 'in'.. he will probably start fayourite; does' riot appear'to have any.;tli6.'best of/the weights, for h'e was'beaten. , ,at -Trentham with. 10st.--.121b; his, back; He always races well at.'Biocarten,, and .may bp too good,for thVothers. '■'■"■■■.;.,-,'. : ; The Grani'. National! Hurdles is elill an : : open everi'tisbut;Bliye.r'.rii l ay:be favourite, ■ with Ro.yal'-Mn's'n*st. : vin , ; , (leinanil. :The i latter-has'* wights, and ..- galloped ; mo'sbattractivoly yesterday morn-* 1 ingi :^..'i-jlji'ii'' ■■ .;■/!«; .-. ' ■ -.^'". ■The : ''tie ;had;qn Tuesday' will ;de ' Tho'Sp'aniaW.no end bf'.good,:a'nd.'provid r ingh'e'd6#"not' be; 1 the hardest'-tobeat in , the Beaufort, 'Steeplechase.: Jackman had a bad falU i in; tho'lvational,Ste'epkch'a?c,-and as the;. i going isvery'fiiTn,'this may-havef left him: sore. ■ Silver. Monarch irnd'. paritutu are. fresh ' ■ horses, ■' 'and ' the. .Trontham track- ■ . watchers sdy the former would have had . 'a great chance in the National had his owner' not 'overlooked. ; the acceptance. • ■ s 'The '■ Hastings I ', horse , Hereford, may , be- favourite in 'the poor lot ' that will ' contest the Spreydpn ' Hurdles.' 'Manitau" and; Golden .-.Water > are the b«at of the others. Manis tau has .several good performances ■ to; ■ bis' credit on- the' flat,;and. his jum.ping is improving vriih oyery race. 8 - : It is common report that 'Multiply had very bad'luck in tho -Winter Cup on Tues--5 day, aiid with Deeley in the saddle to-day J the public mar , make, him favourite. ' Tannhausftr and Thrai will be bracketed ' on tlie machine.; '■'.'' ■'• , ■'.. ' The day's sport will conclude with the Woolston Elate. ■ There is a big field, but ' the scratching pen is likely to be freely ' used. If Sea King starts' he way be the '' favourite,' wliile reports from Oamaru ' state , St. Petersburg has been galloping : - well there. .'".'' ''. The Bgmont-Wanganui Hunt Club de- ,.- cided yesterday to abandon the annual " Steeplechase meeting fixed for August 27, in'view of the-unsettled state of affairs, j and a general meeting of the club is being o called, in , prder;to discuss , the best method gof assisting'tho war fund.—Press Associa-