NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2609, 3 November 1915, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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To-night, at 9 o'clock, final payments for the principal events at the New Zealand Cup Meeting, and acceptances for the minor events, will close. The result of the Melbourne Cup con--firmed the Derby running, and makes out Patrobas to be as good as. the Victorians claimed for the Wallace colt. It will bointeresting to see how he fares with, the other horses at weight for age in the" C. B. Fisher Plate and Linlithgow Stakes. Westcourt, tho runner-up, has been placed in several'important events this season. Carlita can lay claim to be the best of the Charlemagne II stock that has yet raced, and she is quite at home over a distance. Garlin, who got fourth .prize, must have put up a record for tho number of times, that he has finished fourth in important handicaps. He occupied this position in the Epsom and Metropolitan Handicaps at Randwick, and also in tho Caulfield and Melbourne . Cups. Our own representative, Reputation, failed, but he could hardly have been expected to do otherwise with Bst. 101b. on his back. The Australian handicappers cannot be accused- of undue leniency towards the New Zealanders, and it is a wonder that we have owners whose sporting instincts are strong enough to make llioni send horses to Australia in spite of the treatment they receive.,

Tlie victory of Patrobas in the "Melbourne Cup draws attention to the three-year-olds engaged in the' New. Zealand Cup. If Snub, 7st., has anything liko Derby credentials, ho should be able to hold his own in the Cup, but at his (weight it is unlikely that a rider will bs found, who can do him justice. We are lamentably weak in riders who can do tho minimum, and Snub, ipay suffer, in.conseIndigo is now-first fancy for the New Zealand Cup. There seems to be a. concensus of opinion that he and Warstep, ft'lio dead-heated -with him-last year, will again be in tho van in Saturday's contest.

The. Auckland E-acing ClnbV. Spring Meeting opens at Ellerslie to-day. ■" In the City Handicap Mullingar (B; Deeley) v.nd Eligible (R. Beed) are the most spoken of, and in the Shorts Handicap Sweet Corn and Astor have numerous frieDds. Marco Bello in the Guinoas, Lady Jnek in the Welcome Stakes, and Souitane in the Plying- Handicap, are other horses that will liavo heaps of supporters. Klinger, who won the Hurdles at Flemington yestorday, is owned by Mr. E. A. Connolly. He is by St. Alwynne, and is the first of that s?re's progeny to bo tried over hurdles. Nominations for the Handicap events at the Feilding Spring Meeting, also Aorangi Trial Plate and Maiden Scurry, and entries for the Oroua Stakes (w.f.n.), will be Teeeived up to 9.30 p.m. on Friday, by Mr. Edinuud Goodbehere, secretary, Feilding. .1