NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 196, 8 May 1918, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[BY GI.BKCOB.I Trainers ivho intend taking teams t'.i tho Marlborough fixture next Week should note thai acceptances for Hie first (lay's handicaps close to-night. It was tho (ioath of his etep-son that caused th 6 sudden rotirenieut of Mr. K. J. Watt from ricing, and it is stated that ho will shortly ).ay a visit to lub mother at Napier. Red. I'ennnnt who is now being raced by Mrs. Iniinley Bill, won at hia llrst start in Uri&baiie. It, ia stated that Mr. Watt will not iuco again until tho close of tho lighting in France. The Invercargill trainer P. T. Ilqgan will bring a team of Junipers to 'Irontham for tho wintor mcetinc. At tho Canterbury Park meeting this month tho hurdle race (tws miles) waa won by the Auckland-bred Tararu Jack. Amonst recent arrivals from Sydney Is tlio tiouth Island rwiicr, Mr H. 0. Taylor. At tho 83'dney sales last .month «11 tho lota offered were not sold, aud included amongst them wcro four of Mr. G. IV Jlooro'e mnroa. They- were brought back to the Dominion, but on tho voyage ono of them, Armistice, broke her shoulder and had to bo destroyed. The remaining three have landed in good order, In charge of J. liay, and they aro being sent 'back to Kai Iwi. . ' .

While galloping at Ti'enthara yesterday Thoughtful foil and foroko a leg. The fracturo was n ronipound one, and tho chestnut golding, who was being got ready for the Otaki meeting, had to bo shot.

Scadown was given another school over fences at Trontham yesterday. In all he jumped Bix fences without mishap, and hie 'dieplay for a. beginner waa remarkably good. Ho will probably bo nominated for the Napier aud Hastinga winlor meetings. J. W. Ijowo has iußt broken in a. wellgrown yearling fUly by King Kufus from tho Chokchore-bred Commerce. When her time comes for racing the filly will carry the samo colours as Scadown.

Tho fltepplcbasor Coalition and the hunter Korcro vero sohoolnd over the big fences on tho course proper at Trenlham yesterday, and both gavo good displays Tho two races Coalition had at Eastings seem to have sharpened him UP. and ho now displays a lot of pace on .tho tracks.

As there is no other meeting to clash with tho -Blenheim fixture next week it is eure to be well i.atronisod by Wellington sportsmen. As tho gathering takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday .it will bo necessary for visitors to catch Mon(Jay's, ijcat, which sails at noon. Kciuiv.rn. papers report that Battle Eve lias j.c«io sore, and ia unlikely to rare at tho Achburton meeting, which takes place to-morrow.

Elsdon, who won the Adelaide Cup on Monday, is one rf ibo importations of Messrs. Eobinson and Clark, who own Magpie and Shadowland, end who, until recently, wcro tho owners of Laniue.'

Since the season 1911-12 only three two-year-olds have won over 5000 sovs. in Btako money. Desert Gold holds place of prido with 3C65 eovs., followed by Finmark, 3165 sove., with Autumnus, 3070 tovs,, next.

The amount of ftako money- wqh by J[r. T. H. liowry's team during tho present season in New Zealand totals 10,345 toys. Desert Gold's Australian visit realised 4165 sovs., which were devoted to the patriotic funds. Mr. Lowry has during tho last lour years been ,threo times at the head of the winning owners' list, hio wintungs in stake money during that period amouutlng to over 47,000 eovs. To this liaß to be added Desert Gold's Australian earnings, which brings the total to 51,262 sovs.—a big sum to be earned by a team in four years.

There died recently 'in Australia ttie brood raaro I'anara, who was tho dam of that first-class performer, tanncrc. Vnnara was foaled in 1893, beiug by Sir William from Oaution.

Machine Gun claimed a winner at the recent Canterbury IN.S.W.) Meeting in Mythic. Hecuba, the dam of Mythic, is also the dam of Hcndra, who is now beiug spelled. v

An luiusnal incident occurred in connection with the Amateur Handican, the first event at the New Brighton Trottinu Club's Meeting on Saturday last, says n. southern writer. Rcwnnui was one of the acceptors, but as her driver had not reported to the clerk of the scales, it was assumed that bhc was not on the. Ground, and the stewards, exorcising their riffht under the mice, scratched the marc and impoped a flue on the owner for his neglect. It was subsequently discovered thut Rcnamii was on tbo track, doing her preliminary, but tho omisslou to notify the cleric of the scales robbed her of tlio right to start, tho mitro returning to the paddock.

Some time ago il wan reported that the Australian trotter Golden liohin had been poisoned ou the evo of the Easter Oup. It now transpires that hie death was not duo to poisoning. A reward of .€SO is offered for information which will lead to the. discovery of the person or persona responsible for the horso's death.

Tho limn put up by Albert Clint' in the I'l'ottiiiK Derby nt New Brighton is a record for n New Zealand three-year-old trotter.