NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 5, 1 October 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

rBY GIiENCOB.I 1 The Australian Jociey Club's Spring Meeting will be continued at Jlandwiek today, when the Metropolitan Handicap, one mile and a half, and the Breeders' Plate, four furlongs, for two-year-old colts and geldings, will be run. After his- fine display in the Spring Stakes, Wallace Isinglass may be favourite in the Metropolitan. . . Acceptances for the Now Zealaud Cup are due on Friday next.. I Owners are reminded that acceptances for, the Masterton Meeting. close on Friday. . At- a meetinz held at Trentham on Saturday afternoon; it was decided to form an Owners' and Trainers' Association on

the lines of the bodies existing in othei centres. Tho following were appointed t( the committee:—Messrs. J. M'Laughlii (chairman), \J. Ayors. 0. Pritchard, J. W Lowe, H. Telford, and J. Scott. Desert Gold, I'ilboy, and The Toff an tho only horses in tho New Zealand Cm weighted at over ■\veight-for-ago. L'nfor tunately, there is little chance of any o] them facing the starter. In the Melbourne Cup, Kilboy 'vas ask ed to concede Desert Gold 21b., their roopeo five weights being 9st. 51 b. and 9st. 31b Air. Henrys has reversed their positions ir the New Zealand Cup, assessing Mr. Low ry's mare as being 21b. better than the broken-down Kilbroncy colt. Should ThojToff bo brought- back to Kev Zealand iu time for the November Meet iug, he will have plenty of friends for th< two-mile ovent, in which he is by nc means overweighted at Bst. 131b. Egypt appears to be well nlaced in the Now Zealand Cup at. Bst. 61b,. and it It qulto likely that ho will be Ifr. Jewry's representative in preference to Bescr! Gold. - The Fordell-trained Client, who has been one of the best-talked-of New Zealand Cup candidates, ever since he won the \vr.uganui Cup in February, is not at all b<;dly treated with Bst. lib. in tho big event. Ho will have his first .race at Masterttfn this month. , Five New , Zealand Cup candidatesliorke'e Drift, John Barleycorn, ThaddeuSj Varnish, and Hoso Pink—are included in the field for the Kurow Handicap, th« 'principal ovent at the Kurow Jockey Club's Spring, Meeting, Tho value of the race to the .winner is only 140 sovs,, so that no penalty for the big two-mile han' aioap will be entailed. T. F. Quinlivan has decided to spell the two-year-olds Mca. (Athenic—Culprit) and Love Match, a full-sister to Menelaus and Nones. The brood mares Crucinella, Martian Princess, and Perle d'Or have beeu'eent to th# jGonglands Stud to be mated trith tho imported All Black., Diavolo has been blistered, and turned out to recuperate. His ailment is ret of a serious nature, and the P9ssibility of his again being seen in action is quite gcod. Amongst the workers at Napier Park is Kopu, who has'lately been secured by Mr. P. P. Neagle. . is intended to make a lepper of the son of San Fran and Mauae, and if he takes at all kindly to his new departure he should ba troublesome in ob* etacle events. . A Christadelphian, .vho posed as a" conscientious objeotor before the No. 2 Military. Service. Board at Balclutha on Thursday, when asked by Captain Barrett what his occupation, was, replied, "I am a horse trainer, and I've got two diplomas from the king of horse trainers in America." Thif. naturally, aroused Captain Barrett's ourlosity (says the "Otago Daily Times), and he asked to see the' diplomas, whereupon the sppellant, diving into a handbag he had brought with him, produced two pieces of parchment, one containing a gold seal, and tho other a red seal, and purporting: to have been ifaued by the king'of horse trainers in the United States, one Jesso Berry. Having perused these, doouments, Captain Barrett directed the attention of the board to the faot that appellant 'had obtained them through a sohool of correspondence and without - any practical demonstration of training and taming horses. This brr.ught from the appellant the remark, "Well I've been able to train and tame horses that no one else could manage at all." Early last month Mr. G. D. Greenwood declined to treat with a Sydney sportsman for Biplane, Immortel and Kilowatt, the price offered for the trio, in one lot, being about £5000, including contingencies. A few days later' Mr. Greenwood disposed of Immortel to Mr. R. H. Denison. The price was substantial, though it did not reach four figures, but there are winning contingencies in connection with the colt's principal, engagements in Melbourne. . It' is reported from Sydney that Shrill and Sweet-Corn are under orders to return to N6w Zealand as soon as steamer 'accommodation can bo got 'for them. They will probably bo seen out at IMccarton next /November, The success of Biplane in Derby would be pleasing to sportsmen in the Dominion. Tne Comedy King colt appears to have won in hollow fashion. As ho is-not enterod for tho Champion Plate at Trpntham it looks as if R. J. Mason, for the first time for many years, irtendß going on to Flemlngton, where Biplane should' have an easy contract in the V.E.C. Derby.. ■Mullingar. was scratched for tho New Zealand Cup * at 15 p.m. on Friday,