NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2369, 27 January 1915, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Southern writers mention that after competing at the Dunedin meeting Warstep will be kept in training to throw down the gauntlet to Reputation in the Trentham Gold Cup in April.

A Wellington sportsman who attended the Trentham meeting told his friends that he was naming his colt "Kaiser Bill." When asked for the pedigree of the animal, he stated that it was "out of Europe by June."

R. J. Mason has gone south, but he is returning to-morrow, and will then take Emperador on to the Hawera and Taranaki meetings. • •

Advance was represented by four winners on the first day of the I'ofton Racing Club's annual meeting. Improve, by Advance—Lyonesse, won tho Trial Stakes; Sir Donald, by Advance—Lieette, the Awahou Hack Welter; Miss Kelly, by Advance—Miss King, the Dash Hack Handicap; and Fore, by Advance—Alert, the Herrington Welter. On' Saturday Kelly won the Telephone Hack Handicap.

R. Buddicombe, who rode Hoy in the Telegraph Handicap at Trentham, is an apprentice attached to J. Rutledge's stable' at Wingatui. It. was his most important ride up to date ; arid (says the Dtinedin writer "Sentinel") gives further evidence of, the opinion that he is obo of the most, promising ■ lightweights we have. R. Buddicombe is a nephew of , the once crack rider T. Buddicombe, one of the best horsemen ever seen in a saddle in this country. H. Cutts, with Flying Start, Court Martial, Wisebird, and Boldstroke, will do the Hawera, New Plymouth, and Wanganui; meetings before returning to Riccarfcon. Autumnus lias been, sent homo. !■ A Melbourne paper records the arrival of Kurnalpi and Lord Multifid from New Zealand. The horses named are trained at Caulfield. The ex-N©w Zealand-bred gelding Elfbolt (Birkenhead —Elflock) died recently in Orange, New South Wales. He won several races when trained by J. Whitworth at Randwick, but subsequently turned roarer, and was sold for picnic-racing. Several racehorses belonging fo Austrian and German owners have been seized in England. Amongst them is Adular. said to_ be worth 20,000 guineas, and who is owned by the Hungarian Government, but has been raced on lease by Baron Springer. • A Sydney exchange is responsible for the statement that R. J. Mason will pay another visit to Randwick very shortly. The Soult mare Soultoria, who cost tfie Sydney owner, Mr. H. Conlon, the better part of £1000, but did not win a race for him, was mated with Tartan this season, and is to visit Mountain King during the coming one. As Soult is a son of St. Simon, and Mountain King 'is a grandson of Carbine, the chances are a gallop will result from Soultoria'B next mating. . ' Three horses purchased in Australia by Mr. R. Buick, and another Masterj ton sportsman, arrived by the TJlimaroa from Sydney last night. They are Three, by The Welkin from Teppo; Veronal, by Linacre —Totolo; and the two-yeax-old Two Lights, by Grafton— Twilight. The horses will be brought ashore this morning.

FIXTURES. Feb. 8 an 3 i.—Egmont B.C. Summer. Feb. i and 6.—Gisborne K.C. Summer. Feb. 6.—Canterbury J.C. Summer. Feb. 10 and I.l—Taranaki J.C. Autumn. Feb. 11 'and 13.—Poverty Bay T.C. Sum-

mer. Feb. 17, 18, and 20.—Dnnedia J.C..iAu-

fnmn. Feb. and 20.—South' Auckland E.C. An-

niml. March 12 and IS.—Napier Park B.C. Autumn.