THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3111, 15 June 1917, Page 7

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Tho Gißborno Earing Club's Winter Meeting, the- opening day of which had to bo postponed on account of the weather, will tako place to-day and to-morrow. Owners of -horses with weight-for-ago prospects should nolo that entries for sovernl "futures" close to-night. Up till 8 o'clock to-night Mr. H. S. Moss, secretary of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Olub, will receive ontries for the winter meeting of ,the club.. Acceptances for the winter meeting of the Napier Park Itacing Olub are due tonight. The southern-owned. Marsa and Linden are to race at tho Napier, Hastings, and Wellington Meetings. They arc to be railed to Napier to-day.

Trainer A. ("Darkle") Neale, who went away with a recent batch of Belnforcements, writes from Sling Camp reporting all well. Ho expected to leave for Franco the day after his communication was posted.

Tho ex-Wellington horseman, H. B. Cairns, still ranks amongst tho first flight of htirdlo riders in Victoria. He was upon Lord Dudley, who started favourite, and. won tho York Hurdles at the V.8.0. Birthday Meeting on Juno 2. An unsatisfactory performance by his horse, Golden at tho last Epsom (Vic.) Meeting resulted in the disqualification of tho well-known Plemington trainer Charles Wheeler- for twelvo months. Wheeler is one of the leading Victorian trainers, and prepared The Parisian when be won tho Melbourne Oup. , Not many of tho progeny of tho Carbine ihorso Pistol havo been tried at jumping, but tho aged gelding Greek Fire, who was very successful on the fiat, is now racing over hurdles at. Sydney, and ho won both races at tho A..1.0J Winter Meeting, held on June 2 and 4. Tho Waikanae-brcd Bezant (Bezonian— Snowshell), who fetched 750 guineas at the yearling sales at Eandwick, was fanclod for tho Nursory Handicap, run at Eandwick on June 2, but ho finished out of a place after showing pace in tho early stages of tho race. The winner waR Mr. J. Baron'.-.- Lord Windermere, who is by tho succes?ful sire. Lord Foote, Lord Windermero won very easily, and ho is now' being Epoltcn of as a likely Derby colt. Tho good-looking Gold Soult is at prosent having an easy time of it, and most likely ho will bo given a light season at the stud next spring. _ . Tho chestnut mare Tango was shipped back to the Burnside Stud this week, and next season Bho is to go to tho stud. Bho went wrong just prior to tho Otaki Meeting, so her lessee-owner decided not to go on with her. Tho Palmerston North sportsman, A. J. Toxward, has notified J. H. Prooser that he is sending a yearling filly by Bezonian from Gipsy Belle to tho beach stables to be prepared for two-year-old events. In previous years the Dnnedin Jockey Olub has always found Itself in a minority when it haß tried to get tho minimum weight to be carried in a raco altered from fat. 71b. to 7st. This year it will have the'assistance of tho Hawkc's Bay Jockey Club. Mr. W. H. Field, M.P., has been elected to represent the Otaki and Horowhenua, Olubs at tho meeting of the District Committee to go into the question of the curtailment of racing in tho Wellington district. While attending the Ellorslic Meeting tho Taranaki Bportsman, Mr. F. M. Mills, purchased Paddington Green from Mr. W. 0., Bine. Owing to tho absence of his sons, who aro at the front, the latter sportsman is selling off all his horses. Before winning tho Brisbane Cup, Bunting accounted for the King's Plate, a weight-for-ago nvont o£ a. milo and a quarter, run on the opening day of tho Cup Meeting. As Mr. G. D. Greenwood has dooided to relinquish breeding thoroughbreds, his fine collection.of brood mares will be submitted to auction during Grand National Week.