NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 4, 30 September 1918, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

TBT GLBNCOE.I The Kurow Meeting will bn held on Wednesday. It is tho only meeting in tho Dominion this week. A lot of interest will lie taken in the A.J.C. Spring Meeting, which opens at Randwick on Saturday next. As in previous years,' a big contingent of New Zealand horses is engaged, both in tho wcight-lor-aso races and tlic handicap events.

Very good entries have been received for the llnsterton Meeting, which takes place, on October 17 and 18. Weights will be declared on Friday next.

, The entry of Biplane tor the Champion Plate at Trcnthani will not make pleasant reading for his supporters for the Caulfield Cup, for which race Comedy King's son lias been favourite for some time past. The entry probably means that E. J. Mason lias conic to the conclusion that the brown horse is not, himself, and that lie is more likely to pay liis way in weight-for-age events in the Dominion than in Australia. Gloaming is also in the Champion Plate. It -is evident that the Chelmsford Stakes winner is to bo returned here to rnco in the C.J.O. Derby. Most likely Mr. Mason will leave with luh team after witnessing tlio first three days at Itamhvick.

By general consent Red Ribbon, 7st. 41b., is voted the best-trcate;! animnl in the Now Zealand Cup. In tlio Auckland Cup, won, by Fiery Cross, the Opaki mare ran second with the same weight, sho has vow been asked to carry at Eiccarton, It will.bo no surprise if she is an early favourite for the race. Trainer W. Garrett will race Ms charge at tlio Masterton nml Trentham Meetings beforegoingon .to liiccarton. Of course, it is absolutely necessary for a horse to fret what is termed a racing preparation for a big event like the New Zealand Cup, as it is next to impossible to get ,i horse seasoned enough to see out two miles except by plenty of racing.

A notable defection from the Champion Plate is Desert Gold, who has won it. the last tlvrec ycare. P. Davis has engaged his fhrce-yca.r-olds, so it looks as if some of them will be sent back immediately pft»r rneing at liandwick. while .Desert Gold will go on lo Flemingfon, and will continue her engagement in the Melbourne Cup.

The stallion Caiinie duel died recently, from the effects of ..i cold, which ho contracted while on the way to Westland. where he was to have done stud duty this season. Hβ was bred by Sir fie.orgo Clifford in 1897, and was by ClaumnaU— Wpcthcroyc. by Ihlnxini-Gnlatca. He had a long career on the tnrf, during which ho earned n. very unenviable reputation as an in-and-out performer. On I.ls day it required a good horse (o brat him, but he. frequently let his admirers do"-n very badly. On his retirement to 1!io stud hu hart limited opportunities, but li» left a few mart gallopers, one of Hiom, WinniiiK Way. won the Welcomo Stakes and other good races as a two-yc.ir-nldi

C. Emerson is now at the head of the winning jockeys" list, bavin* been on six winners since tlio opening of the season. Jus nearest attendant is H. Gray, with five wins.

J. 11. Prosser's Porhm si able will bo ronrcjfmlDd at the Dunedin .Tockey Clnb's Meetinir uey.t month hy Lisn, Stirrup Cup. Talitha, and Nocturnal.' The flat iors"s will be ridden in their engagements by O. Emerson.

A yoiit'iful member of the fair. sex has been noticed at Epsom bv an Auckland writer ridins out some of the light-har-ness brigade nt road work. There appears to bo a scarcity of canaMc boys on all tlin Dominion trotting tracks. At the conclusion of tlin Geraldinc Cup, t'n .hylieinl Committee.held an inquiry, tie stipendiary steward reporting that lloso Pink crossed Sedd-el-Bahr at the entraiwwv to Hie .straight. The coiiunitteo cautioned A. Seed, the rider of liose I'liik. to be more careful in [rfurn Katiuft. winner of the Ascot Thousand i>. t Ascot Melbourne) on September ]4 is a. three-yea r-old filly owned by Sir Eupert f.lnrke, for whom she i? trained by ,T. (•'■oliie. Xγ an Adelaide Cnti winner Eyo Glass, and out of a. Caulfield Cup winner, Rwcßt NpII. Bho rtipu'd 1-e al-lc to Tallon thomrb last eeason she failed to win any of the two-year-old races in which sho ran.

•Rin-< Rnnrtiiip. silk at the Grand National meeting; tun has been n<o» nr I--, lpine. jimi liin trainer h.-s decided to turn t.i" KcWiin." out for a leiH'lhy spell. The Auckland inrap-r. Jolin'Uiinnv, was amonirst the field that contested the FtoenloolKiso of. TaltersaH'e meclinp- on September 14. Ifut he- ran off at llip' flr-t fence. On the same day lien finished 01 ! „",' ,'m " lacc in t,,n Si.rmi; Handicap. Pilot states in the Sydney "IMerce" of September 18 that he noticed Almoner limpini; ono day during the week, but he does not consider flint anything serious is wronrr, because track watchers told him that, Jfr. ff. h. Klrad's colt, had been i\\»t- way ever since he arrived at li«ndWICK.