NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2280, 14 October 1914, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

|"Br GUscoe.] The South Canterbury Jockey, Club's Spring Meeting is to be held on Thursday and Friday next. General entries for the Auckland llacmg Club's Spring Meeting are duo on Friday next. Acceptances for the first day's events at the Wellington Racing Club's meeting close on Friday. ', The tracks at Awapuni' have been considerably benefited by the rain which fell' there on Sunday. The trainers there.and in other parts would, however, be glad to see a good deal more rain fall before long. , Owners are reminded that acceptances for the Waverley-Waitotara Racing Club's meeting close on Friday.

Jockey R. Berry, who was riding at the Australian Jockoy Club's , Spring Meeting, returned from Sydney yesterday, and will attend the South Canterbury Jockoy Club's meeting at Timaru this week.

A well-known Christehurch sportsman is roported to have been a big wiminr over the success of Del Monte in the A.J.C. Breeders' Plato.

Among the blood stock arriving from Australia, by the Ulimaroa. yesterday was tho imported horse Feramorz, for whom Mr. W. G. Stead gave 425 guineas 'at tho recent sales in Sydney. Feramorz is by St. Frusquin from Musa, and consequently a full-brother to Mirska, who won the Oaks in 1912. He was sent out to Australia by Messrs. Clark and Robinson. It is said that he could always beat, St. Spasa (winner of . tho Metropolitan Handicap) on the training tracks, lmt that ho failed to produce his best form in races. .\

-K. Bracken is to ride Aleconner in tho Caulfield Cup, to be run on Saturday next.

The Ulimaroa, which arrived from Sydney yesterday, brought some of the New South Wales trotting horses engaged at the Now Zealand Metropolitan Meeting, to be held at Christchurch next month. They include tho New Zealand Cup candidates' Denver Huon and' Dillon 8011, also Wallace Wood, Adelaide Direct, and Olive L. Ownertrainer M. Edwards, who was delayed owing to the serious illness of his wife, may come across next week.

Bimoter, Camulus, Nenno, Ringform, Sweet Corn, Bon Rove, Red Book, and Wolawa (Wallace —The Infanta) wero also brought from Sydney on the Ulimaroa. Wolawa, who was purchased by Mr. E. ;J. Watt to take up'stud duty, won many Rood races in Australia, including the V.R.C. Derby and St. Leger, and the A.J.C. St. Leger.

Sweet Corn is reported to'have showed a tendency to hang out in her races at Randwick, but the Malster filly showed plenty of paco. She is engaged in tho two-year-old races at Riccarton next month. ■ ■

Camuhis. and Nenno were railed to Trcutham yesterday in charge of their trainer, 11. Mason.

The New Zealand-bred Berg, now racing in Sydney, won a race at the Illawatra pony meeting on Thursday Vast. W. O'Halloran, who formerly rode vi tho meetings in the North Island, has made a very favourable impression _ at Molbourno meetings, and now receives a largo number of mounts each week. The V.A.T.C. Spring Meeting will bo continued at Caulneld to-day, when, among other evonts, the Eclipse Stakes will be decided. ' !

During the last ten. years the winner of the Caulfield Stakes has never won the Caulfiold Cup. It will be interesting to see how this, year's Stakes winner (Anna Carlovna) fares in the Cup on Saturday next; Last'year the Soult mare finished third in tho Stakes and second in the Cup.

The Canterbury Jockey Club has appointed Mr. A. G. Wood, of Napier; to act as starter at the' Club's November meeting. x ■ Our Napier correspondent advises ■that a meeting will be held at Hastings to-morrow for the purpose of endeavouring to form a Hawke's Bay-Trotting Club. ■■■..-