THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 139, 1 March 1918, Page 10

THE TURF

FLEMINGTON GALLOPS

(ltec. February 28, 5.5 p.m.) lilolbourno, February 28. Desert tiold and l'ah Kins went attractively over six turlont's ia iaiiu. 16Jseo., We lust five taking lmin. 3sec; kinm... did six furlongs on the grass m liiilßseo.; l!ed l'cuiiiint, six funuiiss in luiin. 18Jse(! ; Wallace Isinglass ran a mile and a half iu 2niin. 45aw;.; Prince Virdie, the aame distance in 2min. 4!sec; Poitrina. covered six furlongs in lmin. 17sec; Hoprig, .five in lmin. 4soc; Pa nacre six in lmin. 16!scc.; Aleconnor did the best half mile of the morn-ing-48i9ec—Press Asen.

NOTES AND COMMENTS

/ \m GLENOoli.'f Entries for the C.J.C. Great Easter and Autumn handicaps will bo received by Secrotary IV. il. h. Wanklyn till 9 o'clock tnis evening. Acceptances for the first day b handicaps lit inn iSapicr l'aik Meeting ai-c due on VhoAkaroa. Mwtins will be held on Tiii.'flday next. On Wednesday and Thursday the Nelson Jockey Ulul) will race, and on Friday and Saturday the Napier Park ilei'tiusr «i)l be hold. _ . . . Handicaps for llm Wairarapa. ilcctine nrc due to-day and acuepUuccs close on Tuesday next at 8.30 p.m. The owner of Marenga writes from Illsborne denying the report that was published in these columns that his liovse had been galloped over half n mile twice on the morning of the Poverty Bay Meeting. Mr.. 1,1.I ,1 . Hall, jiin., says the report that Marenga had run hair a mile in 47sec. is untrue. He wishes it wero true, for he would.then take on Croesus, and not maiden company. , One docs not expect to find horses improving at the ago of 14 years, but it really looks as if Parewanui is now staying Better than was his wont. The Advance- gelding led the whole way in the Jumpers' Flat at, Dannevirke, and when the favourite Colorado tried to head him oil a furlong from home, the Levin horse ran on again and won very decisively. Advice has been received that the Minister of Internal Aflairs, having given further consideration to the request to allow the transfer of ft one-day totalnator permit from Marlborougb to Methyen, has determined to grant the application. The steeplochaEe fences are now erected at Kiccarton, and the jumpers \ascu ar iiml Wellwood are being regularly schooled 01, The' wrii-knnwn Melbourne racing man, Air Andrew Robertson, formerly of the Dominion, who has .just returned from a visit to England and the United .Slates, gives some interesting particulars of the ,progress of turf transactions in the latter country:-"A feature of the season which concluded while I was in America was thn phenomenal success of the English-bred horses. In the two and three-year-old divisions the champions were sired in England In this season the American breeder found himself up against a tog task, bora e he was beaten in all the high-class era ts by the imported horse. The great ?wo year old was Snpbtiar. by SunbridgeSweotbriar, which post 1200 guineas as a yearling. He was {he biggest money winun" horse of the » M on. his stakes otallinK £11,905. There aro scventy-ronr tracks ini America." said Mr. Robertson, in Jonctastonf "and 902 racing days. The stake money paid out last Beason amounted, to £(".1.251. the average being £901 a day. Desert Gold has a tryinpr campaign before her at the, V.E.C. Autumn Meeting, which commences on Saturday M. Femineton and extends over.Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday of .the coming week. On Saturday she claims an enKPsement in the Bsscndon htakes (one mile and a quarter,- and the Governor'!. Plate (one mi e and a half) on Saturday (March 91 . the King's Plate (two miles), all run a weight-for-aVc. It is interesting to note that the New Zealand crack may meet. Wedge again on Thursday of next week in the C. J . I Uoyd Stakes (one mile), when there w 1 lie no penalty to carry, and Desert Gold will have another furlong in her favour as compared 'Wth the seven furlongo raoea on Savfn the Caulfield Futurity Stakee. U the same time, it has to be remember-, •pel that Wedge put up a fine race over eight furlongs'in the Epsom Handicap, in which he ran second some time back. . The tiiccarfon trainer H. Mlis has received TnWion to his team in the Jhfine- of a yearling filly by BirkenheadSecrot Link. The youngster, who is a cood-looking sort, ia half-sister to Siher Tjink, a smart two-year-old performer in A'"-lr!and this season. Estland having <eor">d an easy victory over Biplane in the decision of the Wansanui Guineas, fnticli curiosity :s winced ns to the nature of tlie "m'""* ™ n of Finland will receive m the A.B.C. Ensl.e>' i r 'indicap. , . V Press Assoniation mes.=aec from hlimbouvne states that them arc twenty-one acceptors for the Australian Cup.