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THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS fBV GIiBKCOS.I Acceptances fct the handicap events at the Oanterbury Jockey Clubs Summer Meeting close to-night. At the •same time t subscription ol' 6 sovb. tails due for the Middle Park Plate. Two lioi'sob were killed and two riders .niured at the Takupuna Jockey Club's meeting. A little over twelve mouths ago Lho course was re-I'ormed, ar.d it is pruljably not yet in the best of order. The 'Fahiatua meeting will take place Lo-day Handicaps for the Dunedin Cup meeting aro duo on Monday next. Acceptances for the Taranaki meeting are due to-night. First forfeits for the Jlawke's Bay Stakes are duo on Friday night. Entries for tho annual meeting of the Nelson Jockey Club close on Monday next. Balboa, who has just 'finished a season at the stud, is again in work at Invercargill, uuder the care of P. T. Hogan. . The .well-known veteran horseman and experienced trainer 6. Hope has aeain taken up his residence in Invereargill, says a southern writer, and has a select team of three flat racers under his command. Tho good-looking three-year-old gelding', All Rain, by All Red-Shower, has as a working companion Brass Finisher (Golden Knighb-Tinwald Beauty), who ranks as a half-brother to Guurest. The latter Is a Bix-year-old gelding, who. no far, has had very little racing experience. _ Hope's third chargo is an untried full 6ister to Highwatcr. by Martian—Bravewater. Highwater, by the way. is at the present time luxuriating with the spelling brigade. Tho V.R.C. handicapper has stated his opinion of Desert Gold and Biplane, and in doing so ho predicts that the mare would be successful if the pair ever met at weight for ago In the Newmarket Handicap he puts 91b. between them, while if they raced under weightfor-age conditions the mare would only concede Biplauo 41b. Over the longer journey Biplane Is given Bst. 91b., or Ulb. over weight for age, while Desert Gold gets Sab. 41b., oi'.2lb..over weight for age. Tho handicapper is thUB of the opinion that Desert Gold is not as good a stayer as is Biplane. For her defeat by Kilboy in the Trcntham Gold Cup Desert Gold now meets Mr. E. ■ S. Luttroll's horse on 71b. better terms, which those who saw the Gold Cup run will allow is a fair margin. When Lough Ennell, the full brother to Bunting, fell in the Rangitoto Hack Handicap at Takapuna, he broke a leg and had to bo destroyed His rider, J. Conquest, sustained a fractured collarbone. In the Maiden Hurdles Turner, rider of bylvan Knight, mot with a. like fate. Tho well-known breeders, Messrs. h. Short, D. H. Roberts, and -It. A. M'henzjf, bought several lots at the sale of iho Karamu brood mares this week. An innovation compelling all jockeys riding at pony meetings to wear skull caps has been introduced in Melbourne. Several prominent flat riders in tho Dominion regularly uso tho skull cap. The two-year-olds ■ Almoner and long Range have both earned full penalties for the Middle Park Plate, but as they are certainly the best cf the' laldhnrst and Ohokcboro stables, they are'likely to ho found contesting /the six furlongs event. Mr. G. D. Stead has also got the promising Cyresian engaged, and S : r George Clifford has a. very useful eecond string In Heatherootc. Advice from Hastings states that Mr« M. A. Perry haß purchased Mr. J. Harts interest in tho Demosthenes filly Karo, a winner at Trcntham in the spring. FIXTURES. Jan. 31-Pahiatua R.O. Annual. Feb. J.O. Summer. Feb. 2-Taumarunui B.C. Annual. Feb. 6 and 7—Taranaki J.O. Autumn. . Feb. 7-Gisborno R.O. Summer. Feb. 9-Poverty Bay Turf Club Summer. Feb 9—To Kuiti R.O.' Annual. Fob. 13 and 14-Egniont R.O. Summer. , Feb. 14 and 16—Dunedin J.O. Autumn. Feb. 16-Hamilton R.C. Annual. Feb. 21 and 23-Wanganui J.O. Autumn. Feb. 27-Rotorua J.O. Annual. Feb. 27-Dannevirke R.O. Autumn. March 6 and 7—Nelson J.O. Annual. March 8 and 9-Jfapior Park R.O. Autumn. March 18-Opunake B.C. Annual. March 20 and 21-Rnnsitikei R.C. Annual. April 26 and 27-Hawk?s Bay J.C. Autumn.

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 114, 31 January 1918, Page 7

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670

THE TURF Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 114, 31 January 1918, Page 7

THE TURF Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 114, 31 January 1918, Page 7

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