THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3147, 27 July 1917, Page 7

THE TURF

0 NOTES AND COMMENTS IBi Gljncob.l The Danncvirko Oluh is meeting to-night lo consider the proposal to hold si oneday spring meeting at. the same t,imc aa the. Hunt, Club liuure. There, was considerable opposition lo tho proposal at firut. hut it. ia thought il will now he carried. The. Hastings horseman. B. Slowe. has gone into camp sit, Trentham. it he can jet, leave from the military authorities he will gp Bouth to rido ltamanuwbiri in the Winter Cup. Word was received yesterday of the death in Franco of the well-known Oifiboruc horseman, T. N. .lones, *l;o uccrt lo ride Paisauo iu his hurdle races. At Dannevirke E. Plummer is keeping Jem going in view of the early spring meetings. Tho same trainer has also. got a couple of hunters to train for the coming Hunt Club Meeting at Tamaki.

None of the Karamu team are to be entered, but several of tho flat horses will go to Marton aud Otaki in September,

At. Hastings St. Elmn ha 3 not been able to do much work lately owing; to the heavy slate of the tracks. His damaged foot is mending nicely, but it has yet to be eceu how he will stand up to galloping.

Sir Fisher is doing plenty of work at Awapuni, but tho opinion is expressed that the Century Hurdles winner is not galloping as freely as he was prior to tho Wellington Meeting, where he had. a. severe fall.

Tho Mystification gelding Teka has again commonced work at Greenmeadows after a few weeks' spell. He looia bif ftiid well, and has put on a lot of condition during his few weeks' respito from active work.

The Auckland-trained Oardrona has already arrived, at Blccarton, and is being freely spoken o£ as a likely Winter Cup winner. A lino can bo got ae i-o his chances through the form of Kauri King at Avondalc. In the autumn he defeated the Boult horse very comfortably over seven furlongs iu the concluding event of the. meeting.

Potentiality is an unlikely titarter at tho Biccavton McetiiiK. Since his return from the Wellington Meeting, the Multiild gelding has done little, or no work. As Kangi Thomson has been engaged to ride Diavolo in the. National Steeplechase, auother rider will have, to be found for Master Strowan. Probably F. .Plynii will have the luomil on the improving Foxlon borne.