THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 270, 3 August 1918, Page 3

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS !

fflr GLEN'COB.I At the Koatauui 6tud last week Mr. G. M. Currie's yearling colt, by the imported lioko Abeurd from Our Lady (dam of lironze), met with an accident which necessitated his deseruction. The Auckland horses Bedford and Fiehec liave reached Xiiccanon Trainer J. Ixiiiibess. with Ibex and Kouri King, v.-ns oh the Jlaori, bound for Riocarton, yesterday. The pair have been lucatiMl nt Uaetiiißs for some weeks past, Iml, their efforts thrro havo been notlun? lii culhuEe over. 'Ibis is specially bo m tlio case of Ibex. At the annual nicctiiif of tjip Hawke's Cav Jockev Club Mr. J. O'Neill, a wellknown farmer, was elected Jo tin- committc" Mr OWcin has been connected with tun Bpo'-t. for a long time but he hue not been succcsHful an an owner. The lirst foal announced for the new ronton made its appearance at. } £. W. bStead's stud at Flaxmcre on Thursday, •rhe new arrival is a colt by Demosthenes from Sunlight. . , i>ce the Nnlioii?.ls run. st Elmn who did not bear at all an unnitracUvo appearance when he raced at Trentham, has been dome lull worn, it hi w"rh"« Rl'carton in improved condiUon his consistency and his jumping profloiency will not lie forgotten. In the Wairarana old Sir Solo is well fai ried for the Grand National Hurdles. It if reported from Chriatchurch that H. Thompson will ride him. 6 S«"w S»,,d horseman, O.O'KeiU. a v^ ce srsa?ioia-i, i*hea seeoud to Cobram. "Frank Wootton, who for eqroe Beasoiia vus the most successful race rider in MS' and ts been nfixing riding winnersMVitl, . his military duties in heynt. The younc Australian, now ft lieutenant, took a, hand at an improvised race meeting at Bagdad flnme weens aeo, and won tlio Grand Ka< Uonal, about Uvo miles, on a maro named Venus I'lioso who remember Frank Wooti ton as a lightweight may be Interested W hear that his riding poundage nowadays is about list. 71b.