THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 233, 20 June 1918, Page 7

THE TURF

5 NOTES AND COMMENTS fBY GLENCOE.I Tho Napier Pari; Club will hold their WiiiUt Meeting on Friday and Saturday, when the Napier Steeplechase will couie up for decision. The following additional entries lor the A.J.O. fipriiiir .Meeting have been received 11 J'rom I lie Dominion Ktisom ilandicap:il' Parisian Diamond, Impediment, Sweet TipL- perary, and Stutter: Metropolitan, linpcdi- [. liient. From Australia eotnes the. news that All Mack's list for the present scuhoii is full. '• Apparently Auslraliau owners are goine > to try their best to breed another Desert, • Hold. I. Tho imported colt Gay Lad, who has i! been enjoying a spell, is to bo rccoini. missioned si I. the cud-of tho mouth. Varnish is doing useful work at ll.ic- ,' carton, but his chanco of standing a •" severe preparation does not look bright, says a southern writer. The soft tracks » should he in his favour, however, and ? his owner evidently lias hopes of tho - Varco gelding going on all right, as he .. has been nominated for some .races :-- Treutham. The steeplechaser, Vascular, is going on e nicely in his preparation lit Eiccarton, and ho may make a trip next month to - Treutham. where lie won tho July Slccple- , ehaso two years ago. K. Ellis haß King Star in ,work again at lticcnrton, and tho sou of Martian will . probably ho racing at. Ihc C..1.0. Winter koeting. It will bo remembered that King ' Star won tho Winter Cup at the ilic-arton fixture a year ago. Sir Solo is again in work at Opaki, ? and is to be got ready for the .National ,• mceti nc. > H. Trilford's iea.m to make the journey to the Treutham meeting will jirobnlnv ue Crib (who won the big slee.plceha.se ' here lust vcar), Master Hamilton, and ! Oxenhope. The last named has yet to , make Mb debut as a. jumper, but ho will ) probably be started over the fences at I the South Canterbury Hunt meeting next r month. . Amongst the many novices engaged in tho hurdle events at the Wellington mcot- ' inn, of whom high expectations have Icen 1 formed, none is more discussed than ii& ■ formation. This" (ive-ycar-old son of JlysI tiiication and Iteforinalist was bred hy I Mr. Geo. Hunter, and is owned by Mr, • F. Armstrong, whose preference for jump- , bi'b iB well known. Reformation should ' prove- a, worthy companion to _lei_ut-of- ' Hand, that is, if breeding goes for any- ! thing, as hiß dam was got by J.cnown from Formalist, by St. Legci-i orme, by , Nordenfcldt from Formo. . Harold Dillon was tho most successiul trotting sire in the tJominion tins season, his stock crediting him with 0071 tovs. in slake money. ' . . Jockey Stan. Beid's two wins over the fences at the Gisborne meelin. made his total wins in jumping events this season 17. This is a record which has not been euualled for a, decade. i_st year the Jiuglish trainer A. laylor had chiirge ol Cay Crusader when that colt won tho Two Thousand (lumens and Derbv, and Sunny .lane when she won tho Oaks. This year Taylor trained Gainsborough, who won the Guineas and JJeriiy, and My Dear, who wou the Oaks, lnis is a remarkable record, and it would he difficult to compute the odds against the same trainer turning out the the respective winners of the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, and Oak Stakes two years in, succession, but Taylor has accomplished that feat. And more. The cable news to-dav bring the result of the Newmarket Gotld Cup, the substitute for the Ascot Gold Cup, and Gainsborough has again passed the judge first. Gainsborough, who is a bay, is by Baynrdo from Koscdrop, by St. Frusauin from Bosalme, by Trenton' from Eosalys, By Bend Or from Hosa May. As Gay Crusader, winner of last season's Guineas and Derby, was also w Bavardo, the death of that sire is all tho moro regrettable. Eosedrop (dam of Gainsborough), who was sold as a four-year-old for 4500„n5., and is now eleven years old, won tho 1910 Oaks for Sir William Bass. NEWMARKET GOLD CUP London, Juno 18. The race for the Newmarket Gold Cup, which is the substitute for the Ascot Gold Cup, resulted:—Gainsborqugh, 1; Plant, 2; Dansellon, 3.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.