NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 148, 12 March 1918, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fBY QLENCOE.I

The news of Desort Gold's second defeat dunns her Australian campaign will bo received with' regret by ail Hew Zealand sportsmen. TJio marc started in tho King's Plate, two miles, and finished sec- , ond to that consistent performer, Wallace Isinglajs. This is her eecond defeat over a two-milo course in as , many starts. Kilboy and The Toff were both ahead of the mare when she ran in the Trentham Gold Ou.p a year ago, but on tbat occasion' the course was heavy. .At one stage of yesterday s race Desert Gold had a break of twenty lengths on the field.

Big teams from tho various Trontham fetablea and from Porirua and , Otaki are duo to arrivo at Featherston 10-' day and to-morrow for the Wairarapa, Meeting, •Which takee place on Thursday and Friday of this week. H. Tclford, ,T. W. Lowo, and A. Goodman are each taking six horses while 0. Pritehard and J, Ayers will take fonr, and J. 51'Laughlin ono. A patron of tho last-named ie now negotiating for tho purchase of a two-year-old.

George, Gold Soult, Eajput, Talitha, and Blighty are to leave Porirua to-day fo* Featherston. The team will be in charge of J. H. Prosseri

At the thoroughbred sale at Otatara on flaturaar ttie brood mare Strcsea was sold to Mr. 0. E. Twist. Kerry, by All Black, from Muskerry, was Durohased by Mr. Jas Bull, of Huntervillo. The whole of the catalogue was sold with the cxceDtion of Nocturnal, who was Daseed in at 50gns. At Trentham J. Lowe has .iust finished Awaking .in the full-sister to Informal. Thie youngster is still on the small eiflt. Lowo will shortly put the gear on the Solfenno—lntelligenco colt, and tho Haitian

—Grand Opera colt purchased in Olirietchurch at the Novombcr sales.

Tho Autumnns—lieno colt, owned by A. Goodman, is now regularly being ridden at Trentham, and la, so far, well manliorod. Goodman is aUo busy with an Autnninus—Acma yearling, and a two-year-old by Danube—Historiette. Tho two latter arc owned by Mr. H. Whitney.

The steeplechaser Coalition is fairly well forward, and will ho nominated for early cross-country events, lie is to be given a run in the Hack Welter Handicap at Tauhercnikiiu on Thursday.

»*l «? i, .. w i 1 , 10 J IB 01 ?SWd 'I both tho Cup and Wardcll Handicaps at tho Wairarapa Meeting 1.3 expected to start in the Cup. in previous years sprinters hnve done well m ton furlong events on the Tanhereniliau

Kr. f. Preston was bo disappointed with tho showing of Lingerie at Napier that he decided not to eend her on to tho lauheremkau Meeting but instead *h<? ft to be given a spell. His filly Oratress, who haa been placed in h« last three starts, is to lie sent to the Wairarapa Meeting. One of the biggest three-year-olds ever seen at Trent lmm is the BoniformJJreamer mare just broken in by J. W. Lowe. When first purchased she was turned out because she was on the small ewe, but during the interval she has grown considerably, and is now well up in the aw.

The Otaki trainer jr. Williauie. with Waimatao and Manu, is leaving for Peatherston to-day. W. Price Is to ride the pair m their engagements. The AV'ancamil horseman seems to get the most .out of the firat-Damed, and he has been associated with most of his vlctorlns. Acceptances for , the first day's handicaps at the coming Kaugitikei Meeting are due on Friday night. . Parisian Diamond is to be a rnnner in tho Easter Handicap at Ellcrslie. and it is reported that the services of H. Gray have' been secured for him.

Nominations for the Hawke's Bay JoeKey Club's .Autumn Meeting have been postponed for a week, and will close on Friday, April 12. IT. and A. dutts are breaking in :i two-year-old sister to Br.imbletye, by Tread-mill-Bonnie Brae. The youngster is reported to be more like Heather Brae thau Brambletre.

Tho Australian-bred Gloamin?. who went wrong last spring, has been taken in hand by R. J. Mason.

Defence, who won the Australian Cud last week, is ono of the lust of Oirbine'* Block racing JTn was foaled in 1910, and was brjd by the Duke of Portland, nnrt imnorted to. Australia by Meßßrs. Baillieu Bros., who subsequently disposed of the eon of Carbine to her owner. Mr. A. TV. Wonlliscroft. He has put tin a ;*ood • record during thn last four wp»ks, I'Hvlntf won Ihe Bond Olio at the V.A.T.O. Meeting, the flnmswiiik Stakes on the first day of the V.H.C. Meeting, and fmishmr no with the Australian Cup on the second day of the same meeting. Jt is a pitv that ono of the last of Carbine's stock racing should bo nnsexed.