THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3175, 28 August 1917, Page 9

T HE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By GLE>f.COE.I

Acceptances for the handicap events at ♦ihe Marton Meeting, also, entries for tho Trial Hack Plate, of 100- sovs., live furlongs, close to-night at 9 o'clock jvith Mr. Arthur. .Way. (6ccreta.ry).' A nicotine: of tho stewards of the Wood , - Tille Joclicy Club -was helil last, week, when it waa decided, in tho interests of the club, to havo two racing days together —December 5 and 6. A proeramme of oveiits has been drawn up. the -principal of which ie tho WoodviUe Oup,. £350; Borough ]Inndics'p,' £170; Electric, -£170; GotharA Memorial, £300; Railway-Handi-cap, £165; aaid High-Weight. Handicap, £170. A bis fißlit was putriip for two single days, but tho two days' meeting was carried on the casting voje of tho chairman. - ■ •. ■ ' f A mavo has never iron the Graaid National Hnrdle race, r and only ono of the sex, in Nadador, has proved successful in tho Grand National .Steeplechase. • . The cog;uoineii of Taleteller has been bestowed upon the younger fult-sister to Teka, who is receiving her education from IBγ Goosemaa at-Hastings. ■•• ' Tho added money for tattereairs ineeting. at Handick (K&.Vf.) nest month will amount. tp-.'£2«o, of which £100-will .bo paid in ivar e.aving certificates. • Acceptances for the Dannedrko Meeting close on Saturday next at 9 p.m. A -writer in the 'L-qndoii "Sportsman" says th&t twelvo special trains- ivere sent out on orio day' 3 racbig in Berlin. Wlicn the aoinbirhcement -was .made iu England that racing ivas.to heslrat down, , thero was ii wild rush by studinasters t« Eell off.- At the Helton Stud, which wa3 sold on July 2. there Here over 400 lots catalogued. The brood maree included the famons Sceptre, who -was sold on bohalf of the Bed Cross Fund: Another breeder, Sir' Hark* "Syltesr soldi the whole .of his yearlings., to _an American buyer. The Grand Prize of Hamburg, nm on iTiunij 3, was ivoii by Meridian (4yi's.), by Nuage—lTenlppb, the Graditz Stud's three-year-old Prolog heing aeeond. Tho valno of tho raeo was 100,000 . marks, and the distance about eleven furlongs. ' If present intentions are adliere<l to there will ho a. largo representatiou of Ti'entham-traahed * horses α-t Marton uext week. * * Devotion and Association, who have been spelling at Eototawa, ore to : ivjoin H. Tolfordi's. team a-t. Treutliam to-day. ,, rhere are now a dozen "horses in this stable-, including six two-year-olds. Probation; -who lightened np a. good deal ■with the racing she had at Kiccarton, in now enjoying a. few days' spoil in the paddock. . ■ It is probable that a- couple of the most powerful of the Eastings stables -will divide their teams in November, and Bond one lot to Kiccarton and the other to the Avondale and Auckland Meetings. Tralner3-Quinlivan and JeiTerd -will have horses racing at both, places. ■ The Oholtobore-bred Niehtwatch. who •was Bold to a Gieborno eportsmaji! has failed to win a race for Ms new owner, and he is now to take .nip etud duty In the Poverty Bay district. , The Karamu stables will havo a. strong representation at the Marton Meeting. The horses entered include Hylaus, Beladr, Piano, and Centre, and the quartet is likely to. make the trip. The Ngatara-wa trainor, :J. ■F. Jefferd, has booked axMiommodation at Marton for the three-year-old Olmckle and Mulatto. Ohortlo's sinter is engaged in the big handicap, and Mulatto is in the Trial Stakes.