THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 215, 30 May 1918, Page 8

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[BY GIiENCOS- ,

There will lie racing at hllorslie ami Buiicdin on Saturday, and at Otaki on Monday and Tuesday. On Saturday the Great, Northern Hurdles and bteeplcehane will be. decided. Yellow and Black, who is to contest. tlio Hack Steeples at Otaki on Monday, _ia a, member of 1,. Wilson's team at Hastings. He will carry the colours of Mr. P. Armstrong, of Akitio. Tho sportsman namrd is at nresern, all inmate ot a. private hospital at Daunevirki. Hecently Mr. AnnBtrong gave .£IOOO to tho JJawke's Bay Patriotic. Funds. Mr. T. }t. towry, who will ncain head the list, ot winning owners tliia reason, hua during the past four years won over £50,000 in stakes. The general opinion is that owning horses is not a payable proposition, but if so M>. Lowry can claim to be an exception to the rule. H was thought that after his two' failures at Wniiganui Mr. James Bull might reconsider his intention to send Colorado to Ellcrslie, but the latest news is that the Frisco gelding is to take his place in the Great Northern Hurdles field. Ktaceato was found to be sufleiing from a cold at Wnnganui, and tho Husbandman fllly is , to be turned out for a spell. Verne Oolldo, who trains Bracbuni, has a great record in connection with the Wanganui Steeplechase, as horses trained by him have won the big event on four occasions, viz., Kadador in 1907, Oorazon in 1911, and Braeburn in 1916 and 1918. In addition, horses trained by Collelo have run second twice. At Waiiganui Gang Awa' won the Hack Hurdles with the greatest of case, bin display being po good as to cauEc many to write him down «.s u, urobable winner nf the Grand National Hurdles, and Mr. P. S. Easton looks to bavo a big chance of whining the two Nationals with the Provocation gelding and Master Strownn. Gang Awa's jumping was remarkably fine, being very quick and clean. Comlr.g at ouo obstacle, there were three horses in front of him, bu£ when they landed ho was In front. Ho certainly appears to be the most promising recruit to the hurdling gamo seen out for a long time.

T'\ Gray will have the, mount on Ya?cular, Wellwood, iind St. Glutiis in their oneaecnients at )lio Duncdin Meeting. The proposed trip of Adjutant, BraniWetyc, and Go.mcrock to the Dunedin Meeting has been abandoned, and the Chokebore stable will uot be represented at the southern fixture. Tt transpires that the rising two-year-ftld colt in V. T. Hognn's stable, u son of Calibre and the English-bred maro Wild Oats, who was imported to Southland from India, is in future to be known as Wildsliotl. Tlio juvenilia's dam. .Wild Onta teays an Inveivargilj writer), is a mare of (ixceptional tirecrlinc, as she woa got by Tinchdor's Button from Lolnli, by Surefoot— Oulbeyan, by Bend Or—Rultann. by Oxford. At. the present, time TViklshot ig nt Wimratiii with Regan's raeiiic brigade, bis northern jaunt beinc part of his educational schemn of thincs. 11. Kiekcy telegraphed tn I'ljlcrnlin on Monday cancelling accommodation for his team, which inrlnrlad I'urscfiller and Hexton, while ,T, Jt'ryer also advised that ho was not taking Paul Moore, or Welcome. NufjKct to the meeting. This is a. result of tho acceptances for the horses named >for races on the opculnp day having nrrjred lair, owing to telegraphic interruption. Desire, who ran fourth in the Puma ITack Handicap at, Wangauui, is a three-year-old son of Advance out of a fullsister to OrloH. Ho has been showing steady improvement on the track recently, and is likely to enrn distinction next season. He is engaged in the Maiden Plate at, Otalti, and should run prominentia Ho is a very nice-looking little gelding, and lotos after his eire in colour and conformation, except that he is on the small side, but ho is still growing. EULEFISLIE NOTES. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Hay !9. Thero was no work of importance at Ellerslio this morning. Harton, Colorado, All Over, Bore, and Charley arrived last night. Marqueteur has been withdrawn "froia the Jcrvoie Handicap.