NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2866, 2 September 1916, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

!By Gle.n'coi.l . .First acceptances for the New Zealand Cup are due on Friday ]iext. Acceptances for the Pahiatna and Woodlands Hunt- Clubs' meetings to lie held on September 13 and 14, are due on Friday next. . Word from Wanganui stales (hat Interlude is doing well in her work there, and her owner expects her to.give a good account of herself in the ltailway Handicap-, at Marfan. Chabai), winner of the Hunt Cup Steeples at Awapiwii tliis week will be rehandicapped for the Hunt Club Steeplechase at the Jlarton meeting. Hastie, who is engaged in the "'utaenui AVelter Handicap, will also be rehandicapped. Though she is reported to be unsound. Nones has been entered for the principal events at the spring meeting of the Wapganui Jockey Club. The Wanganui-owned Marlon, who had bad luck in the Dannevirke Steeples, is to bo a runner in tlio Hack Steeples at Slarton on Wednesday. ' Portland Lady and Tan.ira, in charge of B. JirSweency, will be railed to Marlon on Monday. It is stated thai in future- all hack races on the Wellington liacing Clubs programmes will carry 200 sovs. stake money, w'ith 145 so vs. to the. winner. The Otaki Racing Club has arranged for a, special train to leave Wanganui on Sunday, September 24. This will enable owners to race their horses at both the Wanganui and Otaki meetings. I The Islington Handicap winner, Gold Soult, while working at Porirua yester-

day, tore off one of his shoes, and, a nail entered its full length into the frog of his foot. Precautions against blood poisoning were immediately taken, but it irill l/o necessary for the handsome son of Ci-est to have a spell for Eomedays.

The Opaki horseman, A. \Patson, ivlio is under suspension I>/ the Wellington Racing Club, is at present in camp at Featherston. As was the case with several other disqualified jockeys wlio haye gone to the iront, the. local club will doubtless remove Watson's suspension when he sails for France.

Accommodation has been booked for the Porirua horses, liockhonml and Rocksalt, at Wingatui, and the pair are to be sent south next month for the veight-for-age events at tho Dunedin Jockey Club's spring meeting. Rocksalt is a half-brother to Obsono, by Uokeby. He is not very big, but is a shapely l colt, and looks like galloping fast.

The latest Sydney files state that Mr. Williams'' horses Chortle and Chuckle have been withdrawn from all engagements at the A.J.C. spring meeting.

Mr. .H. Coyle has been appointed' handicapper to the Waverley-Waitotara ami Uarnwlienuu Racing Clubs.

In a field of U handicapped by Mr. Morse for the Maiden Plate at Avondale, there is only 81b. between Bowler, which heads the list, and Silver Lupin, which is at the bottom.

Humour has it that the three-year-old Beltane, by Elysian from Lady Hester, is likely to be Mr. T. H. Lowry's Cup horse. The gelding has been entered for the Spring and Higgie Handicaps at Wanganui.

Mr. G. Hunter's Mungista, by Stepniak —Madder, has foaled a colt to Mystification. The youngster' is a full-brother to Indigo,

Word is to hand from Sydney that Athenic has been sold for iOOgns., and is to take up stud duties in the Cairns district. During the early part of his turf career the - son of Traquair and Arajoel, displayed exceptional brilliancy, biit like many of his sire's progeny was lacking in stamina. As a two-year-old he chased that great gallopiji' Beragoon home in the A.J.C. Gimorack Stakes, _ and later in the season carried Mr. Watt's colours to victory in the.Nursery Handicap and December Stakes at ltendwick. Even mora meritorious was his win in the A..T.C. Champagne Slakes, for in that event he had such good ones as Eubulus. Radnor, Bean Soult, and Beragoon behind him. On this showing he certainly stood out as being in the very first flight of the season's two-year-olds. His early three-year-old displays hardly came lip to expectations, indeed his only success that season was registered in the Carrington Stakes, in which he covered the six furlongs in Imin. ]31sec.. As a fou.r-year-old he did most of hits racing in handicap company, but quite tailed to reproduce his early brilliancy.