NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2610, 4 November 1915, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Nominations for the Handicap events at the Foilding Spring Meeting, also Aorangi Trial Plate and Maiden" Scurry, and entries for the Oroua Stakes (w;f.a!). will bo received up to 9.30 p.m. on Friday, by Mr. Edmund Goodbehere, secretary, Feilding. Mr. J. .T. Corry, of- Blenheim, who has been to Sydney and Melbourno to seo his horses race there, returned • by -the Mooraki on Tuesday. The V.R.C. Spring Meeting will bo resumed at Flcraiiigton to-day when amongst tho races to be .decided aro the V.R.C. Oaks and tho C. B. Fisher Plate. • Clearly Lady . Jack is tho best two-year-old in Auckland, and the manner in which she disposed of tho field in tho Welcome Stakes yesterday augurs well for her future. It mil bo interesting to seo how she shapes in the Foal Stakes at Christmas time, when the best 2-vear-ohls of tho Dominion will be pitted against her. ■Nig? Victoria itofey wjiwera "h«v® »■#«

[They aTo:—18(5-1, Lanlorn; 187G, Briseis; 1877, Chester; 18S0. Grand Flaneur; 18S3, A'artini-Ilenry; 1898, Ne.whaven, 1S9I), Mcriwee; 1900, Poseidoi); 1909, Prince Foote. Invariably the Derby winner at Flemington starts at a short price iu the Cup, but on Tuesday Patrobns .vas an cxcoi) J tion, cind probably owing to tho big field tho Wallace colt started at a good figure. The local horseman H. Lowe is to ride Robert Bell in the Stewards' Handicap at Riccarlon. Denise Onne and Marcavis wero with-' drawn from ail engagements at tho Canterbury Jockey Club's Meeting at 3.30 p.m. on Monday. Pntrobas is tho sixth winner -of the Victoria Derby sired by- Wallace, : the others .being: F.J.A., -lady Wallace,' -Mountain. King, Wilari, aiul Wol-awa. Wallace won tho samo race himself iu 1895. Ettefred, the winner of tho Maribyrnong Plate, the principal two-vear-old race at the Victoria, Racing Club's Spring Meeting, is a half-sister to'Traquette, who was successful in the samo event two years ago, and who is now one of the best performers in Australia, her latest win being scored on Saturday in tho Melbourne Stakes, in which she defeated a strong field at weight-for-age, ovor a mile and a quarter. The well-known brood maro Greek Maid, by Musketry—Psycho, died a few days ago at Sockburn. During' her racing career she credited Mr. T. Sheenan with several good stakes, and since being at the stud has produced guito a number of winnors, including Byron, All Guns, Passion, and Martian Maid. Lady Elysian, runner-up in the Wel-come-Stakes at. Ellerslie, occupied a similar position, in tho Avondale Slakes in September. . ' It was expected locally that MerryRoe would .show up well in the City Handicap at Ellerslie,- especially when tho now® camo_ through that. it. was raining, but sho failed, and probably renuirod a raco.

Tho accident in the' Melbourne Cup which .resulted in Mountain Knight breaking his leg, .removes from-the racecourse a, ■ first-class performer. He-show-ed great ability as a - 2-year-old; and a year later he won. the .A.J,C.- Derby. C. B. Fisher Plate, and Linlithgow Stakes. At Randwick last month he was ! reported to have been doped, but the idea was subsequently crushed, and it turned out that his poor form was on account of nin abscess in the jaw. He was owned by Mr. E. J. Watt.

To Papa, winner of tho Great Northern Guineas, is a brown filly by tho imported Marble Arch from Momi. Sho only started twice as a 2-year-old and finished out of a place on each occasion.