THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3169, 21 August 1917, Page 9

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS [BY GHSXCOE.I Entries for all. events at the cOuiinc Daunevirke -UeetiiiKS close on Saturday next at 9 p.m. Jlr. Bobert Takle 13 secretary for both clubs, and the meetings are held on successive days. . There is no end to the usefulness of the old selding Stone Gint'er, who is now in his 17th year. At liiccarton. he won tho Erifield Stoeplcs easily, anil though bnrUeViwl with 12st. 21b, in. tho Aylcsbury Weenlcchase on Saturday, he appeared to have the race well in hand when Bodcnham carried.him of! at tho doublo at-the back of the course. • \ new-comer in T. Quiulivan s stables at Hastings is tho Hawke's Bay Cuu winner Eligible. The long snell the Houiform freldinK has had seems to have benefited liim, and ho has now filled out into a very nice horse. His injured joint, though n good deal, seems callous, and there is every chance, of. him standing a preparalTr'ainers at Hastings arc exporienciUK a difficulty in worklnu their charges for tlvp soring lucetiußs, owing' to the continued bad weather. The oldest motors there state that they never remember sucH a lons spell of bad weather. The locally owned Sinapis, a New- Zealand Oun .winner,-who -has been at the LonKland stud, lias proved barren this year, but she is to asain visit the imported All Black. The Birkenhisad, mare Herinia is also to visit the sanie sire. Record nominations have- been received for the one day simnß lueetins of the Marion' Jockey Club, which takes place on September 5. The entries total two hundred and twenty, an increase of fortynine on last year's ficurca. Mr. 11. Coylc s adjustments for the meeting are duo tomorrow, and acceptances close the following Tuesday. The annual meetincr of members or the Jlaiiawattt ltacintr Club will be held on | Monday next. Last year's committee has beeu re-elected. Tho Grand National Hurdles winner Sleight of Hand has an unbeaten certificate at Uicca-rtou. He made his first appearance there last August, when he won two back hurdle races. Ho bettered this last week .and next year he may be 1'0...... endeavourius to win tho big ntceplei-hiisc. there. Ho far his owner, Mr. P. Annstrong, has not won a National bteenluchase. Sir Solo has finished in a. place in the New Zealand Grand National Hurdte on two occasions. It is expected that tho crack New Zealand horseiuau H. Gray will to-day he relicensed by the Taranaki Jockey Club. King Star, who brought off a sensational surprise at Jticcarlon last Thursday by winning the Winter Cup, is nu eight-year-old gelding by Martian. Last season King Still- faced the starter on uo Tewer than eighteen occasions, and as hn only miceeeded in winiiiiig.n couple of minor evonls during the jierioi! imuicd it. was mi ',MT;it sm-priso in find him amongst I lie outsiders for the Winter dm. M the Grand National Meeting of 1916 King Star won tliß Suinncr Handicap, in which event he was out in at the minimum.