NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2863, 30 August 1916, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS

!Br Glencok.l The annual totalisator meeting of tho Manawatu Hunt Club will be hold on the Awapuni Eacecourse to-day. The local breeder, Mr. Jos. Ames, has sent Elcvonia on a visit to tho imported Demosthenes. The English-bred colt Jack .Tellicoe, a grandson of Flying Fox, has been leased by Mr. D. M'Leod to J. Sceats. F. Davies has nine horses in his boxes at Napier, while Tete-a-Teto and Pourparler are also under his eye, but are quartered at S. Lindsay's stables. Included amongst the runners in tho Maiden Scurry at tho Manawatu Hunt meeting to-day is the Highden colt Wapping, by Advance from Betsy. Wapping has been working on the tracks with Eevalonta, and has shaped well. "Whalebone," in the Auckland "Star," 6ays;—"Although Mr. H. E. Troutbeck

had booked passages to Sydney by, tbfr Makura for himself and Mrs. Troutbock, he changed his mind at the last miuute, and did not proceed by the steamer. On account of Mr. G. P." Donnelly having decided to relinquish racing for a while. Mr. Troutbeck has leased Elocution, (Demosthenes—Eaugiao), Silver Tonguo (Demosthenes—Gold Powder), and Form Up (Formative—Pursering) from that: gentleman, and the trio have been handed over to K. Quinlivan for educational purposes, and along with a couple of others owned by Mr. Troutbeck, irt Simonides (Demosthenes-Gold Thread, and La Tasse (Rokeby-Tea Cup), will be trained from Shortlands, the quarters lately occupied by T. F. Quinlivan, at Hastings." The aged mare Forest Belle, Lv GIon» app—Forest Queen, has been sold, and will be shipped to Sydney. Forest Belle is a speedy galloper, and she has somo decent form to her credit over short courses. The speedy Tyson was priced last: week,-,but his owner refused to sell. Had, a deal eventuated it was intended l to race the gelding on the pony courses in Sydney. Leonta is to make his next appearanco in the hurdle Taces at Waugauui. On the way he was handicapped on the concluding day at Eiccarton F. Tilley's charge should make a good shoving amongst the lot he will meet at Wanganui. The Wanganui horseman, F. Coleman,' is returning to Sydney by to-morrow's boat. He will go over in charge of tha Varco mare Limpet, who is to join W. J. Porter's team. The Feilding-owned Silenus. who showed winning form at Hawera in thtfautumn, is meeting a weak field in'tho Fitzherbert Welter Handicap at Awapuni to-day. Distinction, who has been off the seen* for a couple of years, is to make his reappearance in tho Waikanae Handicap at the Hanawatu Hunt Club meeting to-day. : The Dnunt gelding can baldly; be ready yet to show his best form, and may be unable to give 181b. to Glorifjand 261b. to Battle Tide.

Mr. Dan O'Brien, whose death is reported from Sydney; was well known to New Zcalanders principally as tha owner of the great Carbine, .whom he purchased as a yearling for 610gns., ond subsequently sold him to Mr. Donald Wallace for SOOOgns. ■ Mr. O'Brien owned and raced many other good 'horses, including Loyalty, who won numerous weight-foMgo races, Tambourini, llatatua, Philson, Hazel,. Rnbina, and, In recent yeare, Multifid, who, after acting as runner up to Star Rose in the New Zealand Cup of '1906, came out and won the Canterbury Cup two days later. The deceased sportsman was.a capable rider, and rode lis own horses to victory on many occasions. He won nearly all the important weigh t-for-age races and handicaps in the Dominion, but in re» cent years he retired from the turf, and kept a hotel-both here and in Sydney. Deceased was recognised as a good sports* man, and his many friends will regret to hear of his demise. Most of the runners in the Hunter*' Hurdles at Awxouni ' to-day will lack condition, and Turehana, who raced prominently at Eiccarton, should strip a much fitter horse than the nthew. ''The New Zealand-owned Zuland started favourite in the.High Weight Handicap at Eosehill on August 19, but ha failed to Rain a place in the first halfdozen. His stable companion Martuk was also a runner in the Autumn Handicap, but finished out of a place. The stallion Mountain Knight, who arrived from Sydney this week, was railed to Hastings yesterday. His new owner, Mr. W. .1. Douglas, came down from Hastings to meet his horse. The brown Bon of La Veills is very lame, and has to wear a specially built-up shoo to assist him to walk. A Press Association from Sydney states that The Toff has been, scratched from the Derby, and Nones from i) Epsom and Metropolitan Handicaps."