NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2461, 14 May 1915, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Jockey H. Thompson, who broke his collar-bone when Sensitive fell with him at Hastings, is making a good recovery, but he has had to f,orgo his Wanganui engagements. Ho hopes to be in the saddle again at Otaki on June 3. Thompson reports that Ashley Reed is do in? well, but he will have to remain in the hospital for some time yet.

Sensitive seems to have become soured of the jumping business. J. O'Connell tried to school him one morning last week, bu.t ho baulked several times, and then in attempting to jump he fell.

Those who supported El Gallo for the Great Northern ilurdles will now be on good iternis with themselves. At the presont time the dual Egmont winner promises to occupy first position in the public estimation until tno day of the race.

Three well-known horsemen in. G. A. Pine, W. Lloyd, and T. O'Connor, have enlisted for service, and will shortly go into camp at Trentham.

The. Kiccarton trainer R. W. King came up from tho south on Monday and took back with him tho chestnut jtcidiug Cerculus, winch he wil train lor his new owner. Tho son of Mystification is not much to look at, but he should be easily able to hold his own at the minor meeting in the South Island.

It is tho intention of Mr. G. L. Stead to leave in a lew weeks for a trip to Melbourne, in order to see bis horse, Tim Dcolan, compete in the Victoria Grand National Steeplechase, to be decided Flemington early in July. At tho conclusiqn of that fixture Tim Doolan will return to the Dominion, and will probably bo a competitor at the New Zealand Grand National Stcoplcclnise a-t Kiccarton in August.

R. J. Mason is- expected from the south this morning with Emperador, Bimetor. and Banksia, and after racing at Wanganui next week he will probably take the trio on to Elleislie for the winter meeting of the Auckland Racing Club. Ifason may then go further north for a holiday, in order to., avoid the rigours of the southern winter, or ho may take a trip to Sydney, with the tame object in view. He has noithing in the stable this year, however, to justify a business trip to the Commonwealth, th# mishap to Sutala having robbed the stable of its most promising candidate for three, year-old honours. So far as Sutala is concerned, there does not aeem the smallest hope of ever getting 'him through a preparation, and it can he taken as certain that his racing career was brought t» a close with the knocking about he got in tho Wellington Stakes in January.

It is said, 6ays an exchange, that an alleged case of "doping" in conneotion witii a competitor at the Christmas meeting of tho Manawatu Racing Club is 'to form the subject of an inquiry by ths Wanganui metropolitan body on Friday of next week. Two well-known horsemen have already been summoned to attend the meeting to give evidence. Tho chief stipendiary steward, Mr. M'Mnhon, has been busy working up the case for some time past.

A Press Association telegram from Dunedin states that the correct totalisator figures for the Forbury Park trots are:— Last year, 10s.; this year, .£13,347 —a decrease of 10s.