NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 242, 1 July 1918, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

. fBY GriENCOB.I The committee of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trottinir Olub lias decided on tlio conditions for tho New Zealand Trottlnir Cud. The race will be confined, as was the case last year, to horses who have done 4min. 3430 c. or better, with a special provision perniittms the nomination of horses who liavo been handicapped inside the qualification, even tltoucrli they may not liave douc the time specified The toll of the turf has added Midnielil. St:n- to its lint—iilrcndy o. loiiK one this season. Midiiiirht. Star was killed while cVntcstiiiF! Ilif Ti'riMiioa iimrtlcs :it !ln«tiniN o'i Sair.rd.T;. !I- v.- ls ;11l (urc d (rcidiiiL' by R'ariiiii—Lady Flora, and was .iliauinp fairly well at the hnrdlinc came. As to biH enreer on the flit-t. hio last important win wns in the Maslcrtoil Oup, ■when on a day of. big dividends, lie Btnrtod ai

an outside, price and won by about a length from another outeidpr— Manioroa. Tho No. 6 grass gallop at Hiccarton was open on Thursday for fasl work for horses ont'agixl at Welliut'lou. Adjutant unit Bnimbletyo were companions in a slronir working siillop over eight rurloiiKa. Tho pair ran together all i lie way, and finished Elrongly. Jcannot, with a. light-weiglit up, left a mile behind him in fair time. Bon Francisco and Varconin. were raced over two flightd of hurdles. BoUi geldings fenced well, especially Vasconia. Merrett has taken Mnrgerinc up again. She is looking rough, but is nice and big. Eed Cent mid l'renez Garde wore turned looso in the jumping ring. This pair arc promising jnmpcm. vntting on n lot more pace than is usually done. They Hew iho fences in grout style. Cortes was also tried round the ring, lie would nol .inran by himself, so Jt'llullan got. on him bareback, and ro'de him round, when he jumped well. Ngapata. was given a solid snllop uTer a mile without being nsked to do hie best, ond registered good time. Ohnrley was cantered round to the head of the straight, and then rntUcifhorau on the bit. He went well. Marc Anthony and the five-year-old gelding Fairy Knight, Golden KnisfU-Fireny, have'been pu; into worlt.