NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 47, 19 November 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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r,„ w £ shs " lrst; meeting will -take place E? S ednesday- The first event- is timed to start at 12.30 p.m., and lotal followers pivmnff ort ?? n j° urne J' up by the Now Plymouth .mail and reach the courae in time lor the first event, • tw pl ir n<ii f .f, ntries bave been received for the Woodville meeting, which takes place on December 5 aud 6/ Those entered for R„wi? u ?n 1 , nc,u , d . e ' chor£le ' S( l uaie D <=<4, Gold feDUlt, leka, keypt. and Arronflcld. After being a month in the 01 Camp at Tauheremkau the Elieritie .horseman, J tonquest has been discharged unfit. He returned homo on Saturday last, anfl will wc riding at T&kapuua this week-end. As a rule a few iticcartoh stables are represented at the Auckland Cup meeting, . but it is doubtful if anything will «sO Dorth. for this year. Locally there is a dispes'tion to make Johnny Walker the fancy of the Auckland Cup, and lie is regarded as certain to represent the Endeavour "Lodge stables at Ellerjlie on Dosing Day. The big gelding does not appear to have any the best of .the figures in beiDg raised a stone for.running second in the New Zealand Oup. His stable mate ana conqueror has only gone up 111b., and Johnny Walker actually meets him on 31u. "worse tornis. After working at Trentham on Saturflay Mi=s de Ta-1" pulled up very sore, and sne will require a spell. Kangitcro, who has been off the sccne since the January meeting at Trentham, is to be given a race in the sprint events at- Woodville next month. In previous years the crack horseman B. Deeley .has. had many successful seasons. but it is doubtfjl if any of tliem have paid him as well as this season has done. Although it is not half gono yet, the Auckland horseman has already ridden tho winners of the Eosehill Guineas A.J.C. Derby, Y. 8.0. Derby,' V.E.C. Oaks Linlithgow Stakes, and two good handicaps in Australia.

C. Emerson has been engaged to rifle Bose Pink, in the Ashhurst Cup. A Heed will ride Merrie Poto, Idyllic, and Proba-

tion in- their engagements at tlio samo meeting. Teka has already won moro monoy tills year than ho <iui last etui son, when ho won cloven rauos. He and Indigo are good advertisements for Mystification. J. Olsen lias been engaged to ride Polynesian, liraduinanto, and King's Armour at the Ashhurst meetiug on Wednesday. Tho two-year-old iilly, Guuulcrscarp, by Antagonist—Countermine, has resumed ! training in GuUs Brothers' team at l!ic- ■: carton. She went amiss during the wiuI tor, but she iu now quite sound again. At the recent sale of thoroughbred* hold at Christchureh, Mr. T. 11. Lowry Purchased oiw of tlio Demosthenes tribo, This was a son of Fedolma, by the Englishgot stallion who was bred by Mr. J. 0. N. Grigg, of Ashburton, and lor which tho rooai Bportsinan pave 2CC guineas. Fedolma is a uie.v bred marc, the head lines of her family ireo heading as follow :-]iy ijJijsy Oronfi-Nnva, by Stepniak-Whir-pooi. by St. tiCnrge-Watersprite, hy Trtuueer-Waterwitch. 0. 0 Pilehei', v.-'jo is well known at l!iccarton, where bo lias resided for many year:-, ivili Irave for the north shortly, to take up an appointment as trainer to ilr. .v. J. 'forward, While bein«f exercised on 'the tracks on Thursday morning, Yurilla knocked a. leg, and will not. fulfil his Ashhurst engagements.- It vrill necessitate his being eased in his work for a few days. Commenting on .the racing at Flemington on tho first day of the Victoria Bac- | ing Club's Meeting, a Melbourne writer had the following:—Thero were many visitors from other States and from New Zealand, but. tho one that'attracted most attention was Biplane, the New Zealand colt, who was favourite for tho Derby for weeks prior to the race: Home of tho horses were led round the paddock, but lsiplano held his reception under a tree. lie. remained very quietly-almost dream-ily-in ..the shade whilst hundreds of people walked' round him and admired "fyPOint in one of the finest three-year-olds that "has been seen in Melbourne for 0n tlle course Biplane threw ,6ii all his languor. His starting price was .very short, but most backers declared that even then ho was the best bet of the day. The .result justified the estimate. From the start it was evident that nothing but an accident could prevent his winning, accidoDt .Y? 8 guarded against in tb« <Vnni Wa f p 9, ssll)le - Biplane plunged to tho fiont. despite the efforts of the rider f i° stc ? dy him- There was a genthS iinrt 6 w S ? aSS ? d ole iudge ' 8 bOl in the lead. N p boohmaker- would have been thpn e S ous i to , ta . kc the ' starting price wis -nt J n ' g nn "l g ,!° end Ilis Position oftiL' ft i' , y cJla l' e need, and as he canio to - the distance T)eeloy was merely giving the colt his head, and both rider J lol ' Bo appeared to be enjoying the run home without any stress on cither.