NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2617, 12 November 1915, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Though, the. pace in the early stages of the Cinterbury Clip,was slow it was piled on all through the • later stages. Warstep. cast the last mile and a half behind iii 2iiiin; 31 3-ssec„ the whole journey occupying 4min. 2seo. The mare went; another five furlongs before ■ her rider could pull her up. As Deeley-will have to ridei Chortle, L. Wilstm will agaiii be found steering Lidigo in the; Gold Cup. Tarihgamutu is arriving from the south this morning. She is to bo given a short spell before being asked to race again. Nystad's lino showing in the Spring I.Nurse'ry.- Handicap at Riccarton goes to, show' : that, • like several others, his form lit the' Welcome Stakes was all wrong. He is a very smart colt; and is. sure to take a high place amongst tho season's' two-ycSr-olcls. 'G. Clark will., ride tho r.colt in. the,! Electric,.-Plato? to-= morrow..." Had Snub been allowed to run along in the early stages of, the Cniiterbuiry Cup it isquito- probable that ho would have'finished in second place. As it was he was fightiiig for his head for over a inile, and as . a result failed to put any dash. ihto . his finish. The revenue benefited to the extent of £0829 as the result of the tax on totafisator dividends at Riccarton on Wednesdiiy.This brings the total for the week up to ;£3747. . " ' . After- her fine aohievieinent in the Oaks Stakes, all doubt as f'to Desert Gold's supremacy oVer the rest of the season's three-year-olds is removed. . Slie showed great brilliancy in 1 * the early stages of the race, and the northern flier always had a-little the better of the argument. S?i far ' this Season Desert Gold, lias an unbeaten record: She started off by appropriating the Hawke's Bay Guineas, and Since then has credited Mr. Lowry, with the Wellington Champion Plates New Zealand Derby, and New ZealandOaks. Her dam Uararius has just foaled a colt to All Black, but Mr. Lowry lost the last" foal owing to it getting into a, drain. • . ' j 'lt was intended lo bring Chortlo. and Multiply home after the third dayiat Ri<v carton, but the gooil showing of .the former tempted his trainer to give him a run in the Stead Cup to-morrow. Owner's are reminded that acceptances for the Ashhurist-Pokangina -Racing Club's Meeting closa to-iiionw night, with the clitb's secretary, Mr.. A; W. Trass. Astcriaa 'has been scratched for the Pbliarigina Handicap at tho forthcoming Ashhurst Meeting.