THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2827, 19 July 1916, Page 8

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS !BY Gkencoe.l The South Canterbury Hunt Club's meeting will take place on the T-iinaru racecourse to-morrow. A. Oliver has sufficiently recovered to leave I)r. Herbert's hospital, and there is every reason to suppose he will be well enough to ride at Jtiecarton. next nionth. The Judicial Commit tee of the Wellington ltacing Club will meet this afternoon to .go into the ICooya case. It is expected that the inquiry will bo finished to-day. > When Peg won the Welter Handicap at Wyong on July 14, she had only 121b. above which wan a considerable drop from the Canterbury Park Handicap. She started equal favourite with D.H.P., and won by half a length. I)n the same day 11. Hobbs also won the Wyong Handicap, one mile anil 18 yards, with Down, who carried 6st. 121b. ' Another New Zealander at the meeting waa Martuk, wbo started second favourite in the Flying Handicap, but failed to gain a place. ' , from Sydney state that the New Zealand jockeys, C. Emerson and Ashley Reed, are returning in time for the National meeting at liiccarton. 'New- Zealand jockeys were prominent at the Flomington- meeting on July !). A. 1!. Cairns won the Doutta Galla Hurdles Lord Dudley, and 11. J. Thompson scored in the I'ootscray Steeples on .lingala. The last-named was the only one of six starters to complete the course. Instances like the above'often occur in steeplechases, and this accounts for the support of horses that possess what is termed "jumpers' chances." In the .Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase in 3911, the winner, Glenside, was the only horse in a field of twenty-six to get round without accident, though two others subnequently were remounted and completed the course. Coming nearer home, at Wairio, in January last, eleven starters in a steeplechase all made mistakes of one kind or another. In commenting on the riding A. Eeid on Zuland at Warwick Farm,, a Sydney writer says; "In New Zealand tney ovidontly teach their jockeys to ride fheir liorses out, as Keed, though four lengths in front at the turn, kept at his mount, with hands and heels to \ the finish." As a. matter of fact, the New Zealand rider knows how to manage a horse as well as the -next one, but he did not intend to take any risks wlien he left here, in, case the powers that be misconstrued liia actions.

Providing slit} goes through the Kiccarton - meeting well, Mr. K. Lysnar may ihake a trip to Randwick with Pursetiller for the big Spring, meeting, which upens early in October. The Lethe mure Has lutd a lot of racing this season, but she seems to stand up to it well. - Advices' from Sydney stato that the Jlartflgfn bursa Ijilyveil, a. Sydney Cup winner, for whom Mr. Gaine Carrington, of Gisborne, was negotiating for stud purposes, has recently been sold to Mr. •W. Glasson, of Brisbane, and he will take the place of the imported Planudes, wno was killed. ' Many of the visiting trainers are still at Trenthaiu, and • are giving their charges, a few days' spell before moving on to RicMrton, where serious business will be required of-tlieiu nest month. It is stated that 'another .-.buyer lias been after the bay colt, Killjoy, winner of t-ho Challenge Stakes, but Mr. ,1. B. Rcid, disposed to sell. Visitors from Oauiiaru who'attended tlio.Trontham : meeting state that the colt looks very well'. . , It looks us if It. J. Mason still contem. plates a trip to Sydney for the' Spring meeting, as early this month ho entered Lovesick (Martian—Lovelorn) for the Gimcrack Stakes, to be run at the A.J.C. meeting in October. Locally Bisogno'. is the favourite for the Winter 1 Cap. This is not surprising, for the recent form of the chestnut gives evidence that lie was never so well, and if the Stewards" Handicap at Trentham, where lie got- caught in the tapes, is omitted, he lias won at liis last threo staxjs. Providing he goes on all right in the meantime, be is not likely to bo displaced from tho post of favourite bofore the day-of the race. i IMMENSITY SCRATCHED. , By Telegraph—Press, Association. Christchurch, July 18. Immensity was scratched for tho Grand National Steeplechase at 11 a.m. to-day. .