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NOTES AND COMMENTS

IBt Glehcob.T Acceptances for the Napier Park Meeting— Handicaps for which aro duo to-day— closo on Friday next. The Winter Sleeting 'of tho Gi&borno Racing Club will tako place on Thursday and Saturday of thia -week. Diavolo, who made such a stood Bhowlns iu tho, Great Northern Steeplechase at EllorElle, is to compete at Gisborno on Thursday noit, where the eon of Heavenly Twin iviU not bo meeting Quito as good das 3 as he was up against at the Auckland gathering. Tho local.trainer .0. Piitohard has been laid up for tho past fow days with rather a_Eovexe attack of sciatica. Genoilly at this period of tho year the New Zoaland Cup conditions aro published, and tho 0.J.0,. National programme is also much discussed. This year there is no sign of either, and it would appear ae if the 0.J.0. Committee is waitine till tho. conference announces the clubs to bo cut down. If .Jhe National Jleetinj; i« reduced to a couple of., days or the Uip Meeting to thrco days it follows as a natural course that the stakee will ba trimmed. \ Whilst ridins Eiohon at tho Kilmoro j Meeting the ex-Trentham horseman, H. J. I Thompson, cot a bad fall, and received injiinos which -will keep him out of tho saddle for somo time. Mr. H. 1% Troutbeck's horses, Form Up aud eimouidcs, ivho have been spelling at Otatara, havo again been taken in hand by h\. Qumlivan at Hastings. Two of ilr. W. H'A. Duncn's marou in Ilia Cara (Joniform—Oarissinia) and Ararat (Advance—wallarat) haTO rua their last races and aro to go to the stud next season. Mr. J. li. Reid hag nominated three Kilbroney juveniles* for future events in Australia, and it ie understood that they ■will go to Sydnoy under the caro of IT. Hobbs, to fulfil two-year-old engagements at tho spring meetings. One of tho youngsters is n, colt from St. Sophia, by ilcnschikoil—ifauvoen, by. TostiK—Cypriote, by Bt. Georgo—ldaliu. Bt. Sophia was bred in Auslr.ilia, but her jickligreo, isavo for Testis, is made up of names associated with (.ho Etud in New Zealand, Cypriote having been bred hero. Another of Jlr. Reid's lot is a filly from Bosytb.. by Chavlomagno ll—Ailsa, by Wallace—Faraway, by Biil of Portland—Happy Land. Tho third is a, fllly from'" Christmas Roso, an Fiiiglish-bred mare by H'.liotropo— Kvadnc, by Sidus. When Zu}and. finished in third placo in tho Bailvuy Handicap tit-OOaki it was tho first occasion that tho black gcldinc had filled a slaco sinco his joturn from Australia. Frwl.Wcbb, iho brilliant old-timo Enplieli jockey and trainer, died in England on ilarch 27, oged 64. Ho wao the man who trained tho Australian Jlorman ■when he won the Ocsiivowitch'in 1897, and. other Australian horses ho looked after woro Allium and Maluma. The Ia(« Menlennnt-Coloncl 13. K. Troi/Icr, of tho Grenada Guards, who was killed in tho buttle of tho Somino, bequeathed io iho Grenadier Guards "Hie Ecgimcntol Oun. which 1 won tho n'rel, year I joined, in hope that sporf. of all kinds will long flourish in iho regiment, it having been my experience in all oho -warn I hare been in that tho best Bporteman makes tho best soldier, and .T should like thiß fact to be inscribed on (he cup." Colonel Trotter won the cup on his horse- Speculation, Hawthorn Hill, 1894. Stallion fees are Gtill prety stiff in Ensland. Tho "Breeders' Beviow" civee a lint, of 141 boras standing at £48 and over thin year. Those at 200 puiiiees an/1 over are—Prince Palatine, 400 guineas; 6unBtar, 500 guineas; Swynford, 300 guineas: The Tetrorch, 300 guineas; Bayardo, ZOO EUineoß; Chaucer, 200 guineas: Lembers, gOO guinea-s; Eoi Herodc, 2CO guineas; and Tracery, 200 guineas.

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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3107, 11 June 1917, Page 7

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NOTES AND COMMENTS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3107, 11 June 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3107, 11 June 1917, Page 7

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