THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 266, 30 July 1918, Page 8

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS fBY GLENCOI.I Acceptances for the Grand National Steenlcchase, Grand National HurdleEace, nuil Winter Cup have to be made by 8 p.m. licit Friday. Kntriea for tho minor eventß are due at the same hour. Next Thursday ia the commencement of a new vcar for the equine brigade, and should a foal make its appearance any timo prior to midnight on Wednesday next it will, according to tho rules of tho turf, bo ranked as a yearling on Thursday. Messrs. 0. A. licvett and V. 0. II ay-bit-Ue have been returned unopposed to the office of president and vice-orcsident respectively of tho Feilding Jockey Club. In seven montlm horses owned by Mr. W It. Kemball, of Mastcrton, liave von prize money to the extent of 5405 so\s„ Hymestra being the principal contributor to the total. Tho Wanganui Jockey Club paid the Government £4094 2s. 6d. in taxes this season, besides which tho taxeß_ levied on the club's patrons ran into £3533 65., making a total of £7627 Bs. 6d. Bon Revo is now running out en his owner's place nt Takapau. This doc 3 not look as if he to race in Australia as was reported. Tho published report that Mr. H. K. Setlars, secretary to tho Baring: Conference, has breii passed fit for active scrvice is incorrect. Anionest those drawn in tho latest ballot is J. 11. Jeflord, nrivate trainer to Messrs. A. B. and K. 8. Williams. Ormcsby is to bo sent south next week, and will carry Mr. 11. A. Kuasell's colours for the first time at tho lticcarton Meeting. Tho Feilding Jockey Club oas doncted £500 to the Copper Trail Fund. Thoso who fancy Bedford'!) chanco in tho Winter Cup will be interested to hear tliat the Grand National Hurdles candidate, Fisher, heat liim over soven furlongs at Ellerslle on Thursday last. Tho crack jockey. H. Gray, has heen suffering from another attack of rheumatism, and there is somo doubt about his being able to ride at Kiccarton. H. Goldfinch is mentioned as the rider of Ibex iu tho Winter Cup. Kauri King, who is in the same Btable as Ibn, will be ridden in the National Hurdles l>v F. Jillis. Silver Kins, a trebling at one time owned by Mr. A. J. Kllinsliain, of Hastings, and who bad a great, private reputation that induced Mr. E. 8. Luttrell to become his owner, and who subsequently dispatched liiin to Australia, was recently found drowned in a drain at Kandwiek. Silver King, who was by Sylvia £ark—Ruby, was related to Moifaa, who, amongst other events, triumphed in the Liverpool Grand National, for tlie latter was a half-brother by Natator to Ruby, who was not by Turquoise. Says a Melbourne writer:—Many a good jumper from time to tluio has come to Brief at the big four-railer just past the sheds at. l-'leinington, which is now so much in the limelight owing to its having been tampered with recently. It was at this jump that Grafuax fell when leading in the first National in which he started at Flemington, and at one time or another the obstacle has proved too much for other croBS-country celebrities. It is just an ordinary four-railed fence, aud is not badly placed. It. is approached from a turn, but there is u good run to it, and the ground about is always kept in firstclass order. A Press Association message from Sydney (dates that Pontoon has been scratched from the A.J.O. Derby and Football from the Metropolitan Handicap. CRAND NATIONAL SCRATCHINCS.

By Telet'raph.-Prcßp Association. Christcliurch, July 29. Paraoa. and Colorado have been scratched for the Grand National Hurdles, and Depredation for the Winter Cup.