NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3082, 12 May 1917, Page 11

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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i | The next meeting to engage the atj I iention of sportsmen is the autumn I meeting of the Maiuuvatu llacing Club, j! which takes place on .Wednesday and i 1 Thursday next, i ' ! i .Rockbound, «oio unexpectedly won the ! Wellesley Stakes, and lias failed to ivin a race since, though he has been placed several times, will in future race as a gelding. He was operated upon last week, and is at present running out at Porirua. lioeksalt (Rokeby-Ilma) has j also been added to tbe list. The hurdle mare Portland Lady lias not quite got over the bad fall she i'eI ceivcd while schooling some time back, I and at the present time she is on Che ! i Cil3 y list at Porirua. Her trip to Awah puni has been cancelled. . i; Visiting horses aro already arriving at | Awapuni from all parts, and next week's meeting, despite the postponement, promises to be the most successful autumn fixture yet held by the I TJanawatu Racing Club. J Kuliunguru, by Torpedo,_ who 'was pur-' chased at DannevWce, witlt a. view to > making a steeplechaser, has turned out ' a bad bleeder? and lie is to earn his ! oats as a hack to lead yearlings on. | The Toff worked at Awapuni yes- ! terday, and greatly pleased the track watchers by the way he stretched out. The little Boniform gelding is generally i a better horse for a race, but for all this if be gets tlio track to his liking i lie is certain to make a bold showing in tlie Awapuni Gold Cup. His admirer ! claim that he would have done better i in the Trentbnm Gold Cup bad he not S got interfered with at the turn into the straight. lie also put his foot in a ] hole going past the six furlongs, mid for a few strides his rider thought be liad ( broken down. i Decently, while galloping about the ( pnddock at Porirua, Tauiras rug came off, and the old 'Mahaki gelding got a fall which left him lame behind, IJo is now turned out, and will not bo asked ta I race for some time ret. ; At the dispersal sale'of tbe late J. N. M'Arthur's stud last month, the Melbourne owner, Mr. A. 5. Chirnside, gave 2600 guineas for Prunelle. a young maro bred by Lord Rosebery. This is a record price for a brood mare in Australia, but is a. long way behind tlio 12,0011 ? guineas given for the Oaks winner. La I j Flcclie, who, like a lot moro . great II racers, turned out a stud failure. Still, a I La Heche paid her owner well, for all 11 her yearlings brought bisr priros.

The southern owror. A!>. Tf. ActonAdams, who is lion- the principal pntron of the Porirna staples, ''as Teceiit'v heen porting to liis team. TTp Ims sent from Hastings two fillies hv "Demosthenes, which are to he hrol'en in at once. One is a well-frrown chestnut from Formula, and the oth»r is from Savannah. Tn nnppn.ranee the latter srently resembles T.imppf. who was sold to jrc tn Sydney. Mr. Adams has also <:nt a TCok'pby—Tea Clip polt in worl;. This voiiicstpr, who : s a lialf-hrotl'pr tn Dp Gama. was bonplit: at tlip Ohristchnrch Rales in November, lull: was subsequently passed on tn Mr. Tm Duncan. T.atcr op. dnrinc a visit to the Waihanae stud, his former owner became pfinmniirod with the way the ynnnester liad done, and he repurchased Mm. A recent addition 1 to tho Porirun,