THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2865, 1 September 1916, Page 3

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS !B* Glexcoe.l Owners doing the Dunedin Meeting aiul who intend racing their charges' at tho Kurow gathering the week previous, should note that entries close on September 11. •' C" , The Now Zealand Gup favourite, Mare Antony, will have his first race this season in the County Handicap, one milo and a quarter, at the Ashburton Meeting, oil September 14. Mr. W. E. Bidwill is not having a very successful run witli his horses since he lost Reputation. Determination, who was sent to Sydney; has gone wrong, and the other members of his team have so far not shown much promise. Time may improve Devotion and .Elation, two members of the Wairarapa owner's team, which are trained.by H./Telford at Trentham. . I The new owner of Now York has evidently got a big idea of. the galloping capabilities of the chestnut gelding, as lie has engaged him in the principal flat events at the Ashburton Meeting. . He also figures in the hurdle Taces, as do Awahou and Darby Paul. The news that Eligible is amiss will be Tegretted by all lovers of a good horse. The gelding was favourite for the Metropolitan Handicap, to'be. run at the Randwick Meeting, and his owner and trainer were confident he would race well. He was to bo a starter in the Spring Stakes', a weight-for-age event of one mile and a half, run on tho opening day, Rnd with tlte likelihood of a very weak opposition he would probably have credited his owner with the race. Reputation dead-heated with St. Carwyne last year. It is to be hoped that.Mr. W. G. Stead will have better luck with the other members of his team. |

At latest advices two hundred and two horses still remained in the Melbourne Cup. ; Tho racehorses Kooya arid Diavolo, in charge of P. Neagle, wero aboard the Moeraki, which left for ■ Sydney yesterday. The former has only to reach the post in the same condition as she did at, Riccarton, and she is sure to win a hurdle race. Diavolo may want > a race or two before he is at his best, and perhaps a Flat race, about Williamstown Cup time, may be his mission. Limpet was also aboard .the boat, and has gone over in charge of F. Coleman. In the event of the Salvadan gelding, Okailiau, being 6ent across to Sydney, A. J. MTlinn will go over in charge and will Tide Diavolo and Kooya in their Randwick engagements. The aged Tupuhi gelding. Stockade was very prominent in the early stages of the Liverpool Steeples, at .jEHerslie, and the oircus-owned horse is/expected to do considerably better at Avondale in a couple of weeks' time. During the interval between tho races at Awapuni, G. Price sprinted Birkenvale (Birkenhead—Strathspey) with J. .I''aimer's Finery filly. Both youngsters conducted themselves well, and to bo quite used to racecourse crowds. Owing to pressure of. business H. Gray was unable to catch Monday's boat from Auckland, but he got away on the Moeraki yesterday. Mr. C. F. Vallance's brood mare Bluo Lake slipped twin foals to Martian last •week. •

The heavy rain which fell at Trontham on Wednesday night left the course very heavy for galloping yesterday.- Tho inside grass was, open and those trainers with horses engaged at Marton availed themselves of it. H. Telford sent Elation and Marsinah half a mile down the back, and a like task was set Struggle and Devotion, two other members of his team. Tho only one of J. Lowe's team to hit out were Chakwana and Menelaus, who ran over the same ground as the above-mentioned pair. Nominations for the Otaki Spring Meeting close with Secretary 0. J. D'Ath tonight. ' ' A Press Association message from Sydney states that the New Zealand, horse Eligible, strained his shoulder while galloping at Randwick. There is little hopo of his being able to start at 'tho Randwick Meeting". A Press Association message from Sydney states that Bee has'beeri scratched from the Epsom Handicap. Corricbroke dowa in the Pisohill Hurdles, and will not be trained (gain.