NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2279, 13 October 1914, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[Br GlEncoe.] General entries for the Auckland Racing Club's Spring Meeting are- due on Friday next. Acceptances for tho first day's events at the Wellington Racing Club's Spring Meeting close on Friday. The Masterton Racing Club's Meeting takes place on Thursday. Several Trout-ham horses will leave for the fixture to-day. J. Lowe will take Kilrain, Need, and Miraculous, and H. Telford will leave with Rerehau. Berfcrada and Amphora (Achilles— Vasa) are already at Opaki for the Masterton Meeting. Ampliora is not engaged at the fixture, but was taken as a companion for Bertrada and for education. Expect was takon homo to Awapuni after the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's Meeting, and his trainer will decide to-day if tho son of Advance is to make the kip to Masterton or not. The hurdler Capintesta is likely to bo trained for the Australian Cup, which has previously been won by two good jumpers, Marmont and Realm. Fireworks, tho New Zealand steeplechasor, is doing good work in Melbourne, and will be racing at tho V.R.C. Meeting next month. Sir John French's warhorse is named Govair. He was bred in America, and is by Barongale (2.115) from Earalma Lawson, by Boreal. Among the horses commandeered by tho War Oißce are the bulk of Mr. Alfred Vanderbilt's coachers, among them being several Olympia winners, which were valued at £400 each. The stud of more than 50 is so depleted that all idea of keeping tho Venture on tho Brighton Road has been abandoned, and the coach has been withdrawn and arrangements for the remainder of the season cancelled.

The Native is not at present in work at Melbourne. Gigandra seems never destined to win a .big handicap. He has been three times placed in the Epsom Handicap, and was second in the Doncaster. Ho is a remarkably popular horse at Randwick, and was given a royal reception when lie won the Shorts Handicap on the second day of the A.J.C. Meeting. Warstep was very fretful in the paddock prior to going out for the Electric Handicap nt Dunedin-last Friday, and was evidently bothered by the heat. She drow a bad position at the barrier, and received a bump in the early stages of the race. Acceptances for the Waverley Meeting close on Friday next. Garlin, the Clibborn Stakes winner, was sold last week to Mr." J. Wren, of Victoria, and .the colt will probably leave for Melbourne at an early date. The price paid to Messrs. M. Thompson and J. Barnes for Garlin is £2000, with a contingency of one-third of any prize money he may win in existing engagements (says a Sydney exchange). Garlin is by Linacre (imp.) from Argea, and his- engagements include Caulfield Cup with 6st. 91b., and Melbourne Cup with 6st. 101b. It was Mr. James Scobie ; acting for a Victorian owner, Who inquired the price of Mountain Knight and was told 10,000 guineas.