NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2586, 7 October 1915, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

' .- .'.." - , TBr . Glencoi.l - -- - -■ Events calling, for the attention of owners• are the Masterton .acceptances, which closo ■on Friday, and. ,the nominations,■ due,. at 9 p.m.- -on Monday liext.'..-/ ■ - • i'- 1 ,Cyra," who has vbeetf showing improved: form in. hurdle races of late, is to "be sent south lor the two hurdle eyents at tho ; Timaru - meeting.' . A Sydney paper: r mentions' that .a New Zealand offer of was reoently refused . for the: VarCO' colt; Grinso, who has been showing winning form in-.Sydney of late. ' ; ■ y • V,; Tho owner of Seadown. has ..decided not to race the. big-gelding iit Masterton, and .his- next- appearance will probably be in' bne\.of;.the hack .Taces at' the: Wellington meeting, -s.. 'rV-.-.': ■; . ■^The"half-brother tp l : Kilrain,,in Lowe's stables, is now commenfing to shape .up a bit. He is : dodng useful work .on the tracks,, but, so far his mentor: has not asked him to .gallop. ' . . Chakwana will not be ? starter at tlie Masterton meeting, - Thero will be racing -at' Hastings and Dunedin tb-morrow. .-. '.

- : , 'Lavendo, :; -winner of the, October States at Caulfiold. on Saturday; is. a: four-year-old horse, by Chaucer 'from v Lavello. He is: owned hy'the-.Messrs.- A. and G. Tye, and is -in the Canlfield Cu-p with; . tfie minimum impost.

'-.Weighfe, for the Waverley mieetilii will bo declared on Monday. ■ - ~

•Friday is: general entry, 'day;, for the. C.J.C. Spring Meeting. Ent'ries for the 'Poverty Bay Turf Club's Spring' Meeting close on Friday. ■ The . Field' Battery - horee . George' has. been gelded;': and.'is: how running, out ..at Porfriui.' vHe is,to be given a, long, spell, and jiew^owner will then try Inm over hurdles. : -:'""'y Eoyal Rufns (King Eufns—Liquify), one pf : Mr.';G. r M; Currie's breeding, was runner up to Gringo in the Spring Handicap at tho" Hawkesbury ineehng on September. 25. ; ;■";■ T'.-;. y' Mrf Sol: Green, of Melbourne, has . recehtly . purchased' in • England a yearling filly by Hoi • Herode, from Nicola. : The ;latto.yisV , .a''-''daifgkter of*yaUreh,7dam.'of.' 'The Tetrarchi 'while Eoi Herode is the siroyof Jhe grey flier. eo the;. filly is a iii blood to The Tetrarch;.- .. J.- Lowe will ,talo four horses to Opaki, " viz.. /Happiness, Trickery, -Meiie';laus; and^Miraculoul.y: '... Sail,>'{oiiii»i7 owjt&t'Sir Geo. Clifford, changed hands recently in West-' ern Australia for ,£5.; '-."Since , then; he has credited his: hew owner with a • stake, and' gave, his' supporters a' fairly big return. ' V' ■ y .. '• .y : Australian Jockey' .Club's Spring Meeting .'will couelude on Saturday,, when tho Randwicfe Plate, two miles,. will.: be the chief: attraction. All- the best weight'horsM are engaged, but it is 'ui-. likely that any'of the three-year-olde will be seen: out as* most, ownera; regard -the distance as too far for 'a three r ye'ar-old so early -in the season, y'' , : '

it;_was the intention of, .T.-E. Prosser to' take his New - Zealand Cup candidate Pavlova to JJnstings so that she:could do a bit of work on tho grass, but one of her joints I ,has been giving trouble of late; aid at present she is'having .a; slight-let ■■up:- 1 •If possible, she will be; started at Onaki and at Trentham on both days, ■which" will''assist.rher Cnp preparation. The .'stable • has. also ■ Goldstream -engaged in s the Cuo, and. there.. . are.' those who think the brown'horse will be the better "f' Hip-'pair on the day. 'V The son of Gold 'Crest has. already-won over ten furlongs, ao'l h», is in creceint of 181b. : from Pavloya in: the/New Zealand Cup.; .

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