NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2766, 9 May 1916, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

IBy fjLE.N'car.l

In being askod to concedo ' 4ll>. to Kooya, tho locally-owned marc Taringa. mutu has none the Vest of the weights in the Marlborough Cup.' Tho race is run over ton furlonffs, which distance seems just a trifle" beyond the daughter of' Charlemagne H. . Mr. 3). liutbcriWl will be represented at the coming Wanganui. meeting by Daylight Bill, Mescal, and Free. The first named won the . \Yanganui Steeplechase Hast yeai. ... A. Reed rode three winners at Hastings oil .Saturday, bringing his total' up to forty-three for the season. Two prominent Hawko's Buy stables lmviv been trying to secure Reed's services tor the coming season. ... Mr. W. G. Stead, owner of Eligible and Saaanoff, has been suffering .from throat, trouble of late, and . was. unable to be present at Hastings,to. see. Eligible win the Hawkes' Bay Cup, though he got out on i Saturday, when Sasanof won the Stnkta. '•

C. Eiuersan came up from the south yesterday, and is • journeying. on to Hawera to-day. Ho rode three winners at the Ashbui'ton meeting, mating );i* total fifty-five for the season. This ia nine behind J. O'Shea's total to date. El Gallo is not badly • i reated in the Northerns at Ellerslie, but. there seems to be some doubt about.tho Spalpeen gelding, running, as bo far ho has not been given a'jump, and has had an .arduous season on .the' Hat. The Ugiuont. ltacing Club's Winter Meeting will commence-.at Hawera tomorrow. The opening event is tho Tongahoe Hack Hurd'es, in which Crown Pearl is to.make his first appearand', as « jumpid'. A useful horse in the same race is Lord Nelson, who showed winning form at Feilding, and a promising maiden candidate is Golden March, the halfbrother to The Native, who led the lield at a merry pace for a mile in thei race won by Lord Nelson, and then nmshvd third. " The Advance gelding ■ may be expected to improve considerably on ;nis 'form. In the-M'Eao ilomorial Handicap, oho mile, and a quarter, 'Want may bo u hot order. , Cttairoy, who has been showing gooil form lately, may be tho hardest to beat in the Tawluti Handlcap, six ,furlongs, though lie and Interlude may worry each othor over the first part of the race, and thus pave tho way •for something to come from behind. Two of tho runners yi Lord Lupin, fist. 101b,, and Los Angelos, Bst., have' been ■ off the scene lor a couple of years, and eonld hardly bo at their best.

Iu the Railway Handicap, six furlongs, Antwerp, Bst. lib., has his Fcildmg form to recommend him. Golden Gralton failed badly at th* Wairarapa mating, mid will lose many uupporters in consequence. Koyal Chef, 7st. 12lb„ ran two good races at Feilding, .and may be the be;I; liked in tho Telegraph Hack Ilaudioap, the field for which is a poor ono. If Analoguo is over the trouble which affected liiui af; Awapunt, ui may l>o favourite in file Waihi Handicap, in which Black Ada is trying to concede him a stone. Mr- H. Taylor, of Christchurck, is leaving tor. Syducj this week to arrange accommodation for the horses Bee, Briar Patch, Martuk, Spangle, and Mr Tarkn, who are to be raced thoro in tho winter.

They are to go Oral' labor on in clwrjfe of R. W. King. The locally-owned Sinapis, winner of the New Zealand end Wangamri Cups,, is believed to. be-in foal to All Black, ATM I will again visit the imported horse net) season. •- ; »-• Tho one-time ohampion steeplechaser, Tho Guard, yri.nner of nearly all the big steeplechases in the Dominion, is back again at Forirua The old fellow is still hale and hewly, despite his advancing yi'iii'H, Taiura (Maliaki—Young Uira), a good hurdle poifovinci- of three, seasons baj'.lt, was sold at the sale.of the late llr. J. 11. M'Donald's horses for £5. J. H. Prosser, who used to train him, got into communication with his new owner, and bought him back for ,£SO, arid the old fellow, who Renma qiiito iioun'l, .'0 to !mi used as a hack at Porirua. The "Iligbden" importation Crown Pearl 11, showed considerably improved form .at Hat,lings on his .fitst Jrtiu at Mana\Vatu, and should prove ueet'ul ne\t season, Wood lark. which was the Hon.' J. I). Ormond's representative in the Maiden Hace at Hastings, i« a wcll-Krown two--ycar-old, by Hymettus from Woodhev, luid should develop into i>' uieful thioe-year-old. ' '■ i

FIXTURES. May 10 and 11.—Egmont B.C. Winter. May 17 and 18.—Marlborough B.C. Autumn. ' May 24 and 25.—North Otago J.C. Winter. May 25 and 27.—Wanganui J.C. Winter. June 1 and 3—Dunudin J.C. Winter. June 3 and s.—Otaki Maori B.C. Winter. June 3 5, and 7.—Auckland R.C. Winter. June 15 and 17-Gisborne ,R.C. Steeplechase. - ■ , June 23 and 24,-Napier Park E'.Cw Winter. , June 30 and. July I.—Hawke's Bay J.C. Winter.