NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2994, 3 February 1917, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS

! IBt Gmncob.l The C.J.C. Summer -Meetingwill take place at Riccarton to-day. Tho .opening, event is the Trial Stakes, and is timed to «Urt at 1 u.m. Tho«. » a very good field engaged and perhais Bon dOr, All Serene, and Thames will carry most support. Tho last-named wil have a pu?lin the weight*, and will be ridden Ytta Hornby Writer Handicap, ono mile, Comely is op-weight will 9 ? t 91b. Sho ie not meeting a good lot, but a» she has an engagement later on in the fiuv <ilie mav 1)0 scratched tor tho weit- in this case tho unreliable Battte . Eve may carry most money, as ho mil • do beTter in a small field than in a big °"r'hß Middle Park-Plate, jtfth its penalties and allowances, should provo a veil mod race B pane. Koremn, and Kl- - have all calncd 101b. penalties *J«£ Gameoock, who wdl carry Sir Geo.. CIjP ford's colours, tti I have a slb. alovjmce. This will cive Ktm ISlb. the best of the weights. Reports credit bin with being a voV sneccly colt, but probably most people will rely on Biplane, who 'has public form to recommend lum. The Midsummer Handicap, one mile and a half, has only drawn tivo ™tuiers, Adiutanl may bo troubled to carry Oil., Md Snub hia boon off colour all this season. Margeriiio won at AVingahu at Christmas, and as .the held, thai finished bohind her included some good. one« that form may be eulhcienl to send, ber'out favourite to-day. Bred as she is by Martian from Starehot, sho should, get the distance well, . ~ ~ The two-year-olds m the Lyttelton Plßte are all maidens. Claverhonsß hao had a reputation for some time, and Lovesiok was finishing on well m one of h«r races at Trenthom. If reserved for the Craven Plate, ComcIv may be favourite, while the distance in the Halswell Handicap will emt Britid, Rose. HMKstjr raced well mowh at Trentham to suggest her as likely to go a. solid mile in the Post Handicap. At Gieborne the Cup gathering will be concluded to-day. Bodenham won so easily on the opening day that he looks Jerfain to start favourite a E am to-day. Woodrow, runner-up to Treasure . King in the Scurry-on Thursday, has been award top-weight in tho handicap to-day, and evidently his showing impressed the When at his best Grand Idea, can pet a mile well. He was not started on the oWihg <*»? and wa * P TOtabl y reserved for thV Taruheni Handicap tO;day. _ Gaaique, 9-*t- Gib., is top-weight in the • big handicap. He has now won four ' races on end, but he is meeting a better class to-dav, and the weight may find 1 a weak spot at the end of eight Inrlongs. ■ Downham, Sst. 21b reads as well as any--1 thing engaged in Ihe race. In the Oisfcorne Stakes Hexton may be favourite, a« ■ he is only concedmc the others 101 b., ' while if the event were a. handicap they ; . would get a bigger concession • Mr J B. Reid has disposed of Iul- ; iwni. and .the colt will race in Mr. A. ' MuTdoch'a interest at the C..1.C. Meet- " in? to-day. It is understood the pur- ' chase price was SOOgns. Ivilboyne is a ; (Sjll-bTother to tho craok two-year-old • filly Kilrea, but so far his public torm 1 has been very poor, and he seems re- • markaWywelf sold at 500gns. B Deeley, C. Emerson, and G. Clarke, ' who were riding at Egmont on Wednes- ; day and Thursday, went south last even- - i nE to fulfil engagements at the C.J.C. ■ Meeting to-day. ''■ Mr "Pat Campbell, formerly a well- • known Canterbury sportsman, who died ; at Cheltenham on January 30, was well • known in Chiistohuroh, and raced many : horses up till about ten years '■• he returned home. He married a dfugh- '■■ ter of the late "Ready Money" Robinson. '• Mr Campbell was honorary starter to '" the Canterbury Jockey Club for many ■> years.