THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 276, 10 August 1918, Page 9

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS fBY QLENCOE.I Owners arc reminded tliat final payments for the three principal oveutß at tho National Mooting are duo on Monday. Acceptances lor tho minor events closo at tno sainu time. It is now less than a month to the Marton Meeting, which takes placo on September 4, and with which will start-the flat season. Entries for all events closo with Seore'tary A. Way on Friday next. ■ For the one-day Spring Meeting of tho Egmont Earing Ulnb, to be held on Soptember 19, there ie a programme of eight events, including three hunters' racee. EnI tries for all events Thursday, Au- ! gust 29, with Secretary V. B. Stratton. Brambletye, a place-Better in the last Winter Cup, and one of the most fanoied candidates for this month'e race, is reported to have pulled up lamo after working on Wednesday last. Mr. Q. h. Stead has lost Petrosus, by Birkenhead—Fetrovua, through premature foaling. She was in foal to Nassau, and was to have been sold by auction next week. _ . Jtoddito is reported to be an unlikely starter in tho Grand National Steeplechase, but the Auckland horso will contest tho Enlleld Steeplechase, run on tho same day. Tho oontinued wet weather in Canterbury is seriously interfering with training operations at Kiocarton, and tho tracks oannot but be on the heavy Eido for next week's racing. As to how the different horeoe will fare in heavy going is not known in all cases, but. Master Strowan, Ganß Awn', Collector, and Gladful have all won on heavy tracks. Though the first acceptance was made for Crown l'enrl in the National Hurdles it naß been decided not to send the old follow to the meeting. The haok Cadet will also be allowed to forfeit liis southern engagements. In addition to tho horses already report eu as gping south yesterday wero the steeplechaser Qaekwtir, who is to be a runner in the Enfleld Steeplechase, nnd Lady Louisa, who has an engagement , in tho Winter Cup, and Arlington, who is to race in tho Enfleld Stoepleohaso on the first day and the Beaufort Steeplechase on the seoond day. The Demosthenes two-year-old Amythas, a full-brother to Silver Tongue, who was purchased by Mr. F. S. Easton at the November sales In Chrietchurch, is now an inmate of P. Tilloy'a stables at For'loll. Tilley also trains Gang Awa' and Montoa Ivanova for tho Foxton sportsman. At South Australian TatfersaU's Meeting last month there was a Held of twentylive in tho Hurdle Race, and in the scramMo for positions at the first feuce six hores fell and two ran off. 11. Gray, who is to rldo Hydrus in the .iVin'or Oup, went south yesterday. Ho has iiulfe recovered from hie attack of rheu.iioti?ra. A new addition to T. Pritchard's team at OpaUi is tiie fiarto SPldins; Tuticorn. ' :atcly tho tracks at OpaVM have bnen very I much on the heavy side, and trainers have I not been able to do much work with their 1 'earns.