NOTES AND COMMENTS
rBY GIiENCOE.I Nominations for all events at the Ashhiixet meeting close on Saturday night. An offer of 700 guineas was recently refused for the yearling full brother to Demotic. The youngster is to so up for sale by auction with the rest of the Demosthenes youngsters at Christchurch next month. Those who havo seen tho colt say that he iB a typioai thoroughbred, and greatly resembles his sire, 'liie imported horse seems to havo the faculty for stamping his stock well. C. Emerson, who has been riding in Sydney durii»; tho past few months, has returned to Now Zealand. He will be riding at, the Riccarton meeting, which opens next month, and it is understood that one of his mounts will be Estland in the C.J.C. Derby. Advices received by a rccent mail state that Mr. ,W. G. Stead, who is in ■ Melbourne, overlooked tho closing of entries for the Auckland Cup meeting. Harry Moore, the one-time successful jockey and trainer, and who is now domiciled in Adelaide, is at present in Wellington on his way home after a few months' holiday at Awapuui. Coolpan met with a. mishap a few days ago which will necessitate his being spelled. Tho Waverley hurdle race was not run without incident. Poltliogue' and Calais fell, and Mattock lost his rider. Calais »vas in the lead when he came to grief. A sensational incident, in which some remarkably clever horsemanship and presence of mind were displayed, was witnessed at tho Waverley racecourse on Monday. The 'lorses had just passed the post when Madam Ristori's saddle slipped as R. Hatch (tho rider) straightened himself up to pull up his mount., which lmd won by a narrow margin from Humorist, on whom Clruido Brown had tho mount. Hatch rolled, and the mare stumbled with the result that her rider was thrown out of the saddle, and would have fallen right in front of several horses which ice™ coming on at ton snce<l just brhind. Quick as a flash. Brown leaned over in he saddle, and grabbed Hatch, whoso feet stuck in the irons momentarily, but Brown held the susnended rider up till TTatch got his foot free, and then lifted him on to his own horse's nccl;. where he (Hatch* clung until Brown had pulled Tlumorist up to a walk, and Hatch dropped to the ground uninjured. Had it. not been for Brown's prompt "circus" act the probabilities are that Hatch would have '-eon badlv hjirt. and the crowd gave Rrown nni(/> an ovation as he.returned to the paddock.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 27, 26 October 1917, Page 8
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