THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2892, 3 October 1916, Page 9

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS [Bt Glencob.l Acceptances for the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's Spring Sleeting cfcso to-morrow ovening. at 8 o'clock. Onoa more it lias been found Accessary to postpone the Australian Jockey Club's Spring Meeting. Presumably tko races will now -be held on 'Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. With only a spell of a day between the races there will bo a big diminution in the fields as the meeting progresses. Tho racehorse Eligible, -which went wrong at Randwick rocently, was aboard the Manuka, which wived from Sydney yesterday. The absence of Sasanof from the entries for the Champion Plate at Trentharn suggests that the Martian gelding is to go on to Flemington after tho Rondwiek fixture. Other aooounts state that it nil depends upon how ho shapes in the Spring Stakes to-day, whether bo trill be sent home or allowed to contest the Melbourne Cup. W. Bell, who is to ride Mr. H. Whitney's team at the Rurow and Wingatui meetings, went, south last night. .Tho Highdon horseman will also have the moujit on Disdainful in the Diinedin Guineas. the Fordell. light-weight korsemaij, H. Young, goes south to-night to ride Tinless and Golden Rupee at the Kurow meeting. He Hill be unable to wait for the Wingatui fixture, as F. Tilley r»quires his services at Mosterton next week. " " Acceptances for the Mastevton meeting close on Friday next, at 10 p.m. To celcbrato tho jubilee of tho Westland Racing Club it has been decided to give a stake of 400 bots. for the Jubilee Gold Cup, to ■be run at the summer meeting of- the club in ' January next. Of this amount, 300 govs, will be in Bpeoie, and there will be added a gold cup valued at,loo sovs. There is no raco 0)1 the programme of a less value than 100 sovs. A correspondent writes suggesting that iiow that tho Wellington Racing Club is out of debt, it should only charge the modest shilling for admission, to tho "outer" at Trentham. The writer points Jilt that access to EUerelio, Riccarton, md Wingatui can be obtained for Is., so irhy, he asks,-should tho Wellington Racing Club oharge double. . The request seems a very fair one, and will no doubt engage tho. attention of fjecretary A. B. Whyte and his committeo. The Highden two-year-old Birkenvale, irho has been suffering with a cold, has now quite recovered, and is working ireely at. Awapuni. A. Oliver, who is aow Tiding very lipht£ will ba o<n the strathspey colt in his initial engagement. One of the oasiest wins recorded at S 7 apier on Saturday was that of Bon love in tho Taradalo Hurdles. The Derby vinner had tho race won at any stage, ind now'that he has struck form he may JO" on winning. . Mount Joy, runner-up to Lingerie in ;h'e Juvenile Handioap at Rapier, is re- ; iprted' to 'have shown great pace, and iter {jetting off,badly, actually 1 headed jingcrie.' who began smartly, across the >ottoni. However, the eftort was too r.uoh for the Hymettus colt, and the illy camc on and beat him comfortably. There were some champion high kickirs amongst the juveniles that raced at S'apier,. and several of tho youngsters mffercd from the attentions of Vagabond aid Asttophel. The suggestion made by tho president if the Wellington Racing Club that the lolour question should bo reviewed, and bat standard colours should bo used m all courees lu Now .Zealand, is not jy any means a new ope, and has been jhrow.n out as impossible in. Australia. Che proposal js that Mo. 1 should oany white, No. 2 should carry green, and so >n. But haw are clubs to get on when iho_ field, numbers, as it often doss, say. thirty runners? Will them not have to 38 a mixture,. and may not tho last irror be worse than The public vho follow racing have become used, vftor a lifetime, to seeing the Stead horses xirrying yellow, tho Ormond horses serise, .and .so on. . Tho averggo man or, ■vornan' when backing a horse rarely hinlcs of its number after receiving the otalisatbr tiokets. All the publio watoh s the Ormond colours and Stead colours, ir whatever well-known colours they are jacking. It would be indeed hard to get ;he public used to tho proposed new >rder of things. Tho Neiv Zealandera, Troublesome, DkailiaUj' and Now York, have been iwaided list. 101b., lflst. 121b., and 10s. 121b.. respectively iu the First Steeplcihase, to bo run at Randwjck to-morrow. With' tho war regulations in force regarding registration, owners employing lockoys to ride would do well to insist 3ii their showing proof of registration. The penalty on employers for non-obser-vance is very heavy. . ' A private cablegram received yesterday. states that the New Zealander ICiltoy lias displaced Wolaroi in tho public's fajicy for the A.J.C. Derby to be run to-day.'' The soft going should suit the'big New Zealander.There arrived by the lonic, says a Press Association telegram from Christ jJmroh,- three tlioroughbredv mares, bought in. England, and consigned to Mr. T. F. Buchanan,' of Canterbury. They are Persian Lilac, Pineta, and Nazabuka. It iB quite possible Merry Roe will go aouth> iu which case Bleriot would probably be taken as a companion to tho. New Zealand Cup candidate.' In conversation with E. J. Rae, a northern sporting ■writer gleaned that the pair would probably tako part at the Wellington Spring 'Mooting, after wliioh tho trip to Riccarton would bo finally considered. The Ellerslio trainer is anxious that Merry 1100 should have a race if she is tp cqntest tho big two-milo event at Riccarton. \ Advices to hand from Ivapler credit Desert Gold with training on in a man- 1 ner serving to inspire the greatest confidence that she will prove the weight-for-age heroine this season as she was last year. In the event of the Wellington Spying Meeting being held this mojitk, the bay daughter pi All Black and Aurarius may'be expected to make her reappearance on the scene in tho CJiain- < [>ion Plate, Colonel Soult is being kept up to tlie 1 right class of work to fit him for events 1 ahead, though a' visit to RiccaTton next ! month has not yet been finally decided upon for the son of Soult. ; According to a northern sporting writ- ; er, the New Zealand Cup candidate Mullingar is looking particularly bright, and may perform with even more credit this Beason than in tho past. The Wellington Steeplecliaen winner, i Captain Jack, recently st&kefl ltimself : badly wliijo running in a paddock at his ; owner's-home at Epsom. Ho is. now i progressing well. However, his owiior ] has no intention of again racing the j popular fencer. 1 : , RANDWICK RACES AGAIN POST- J PONED. 1 By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright Iltec. October 2, 10.30 p.m.) Sydnoy, October 2. ; On account of the rain, the A.J.C. ] raco mooting has again been postponed, tho rearranged dates being Octobor !), 5, ( 7, and !). 1 Dewy Dawn has been scratchcd for j the Derby. 1 .. (Rec. Octobcr 3, 1.35 a.m.) i . Sydney; October 2. • It is still raining, and there aro no indications of a ohango. Tljiero is every ' prospect of furtjier postponement of s bhb races, owing to unsafely of tho ? tracks. 1 ■ a • 1-. - : s ■ a