THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 7, 3 October 1918, Page 9

THE TURF

NOTES ANp COMMENTS HBY GLENCOB.V Kominatious for tho Ancklnnd Cup, llailway Handicap, Summer Cup. Bacing Olub Handicap., and IsiinKton Plate, to bo. run "at the Auckland Kaeincr Club's Summer JUetinu, .will tloso on Friday, October. ;4, at. , 5 p.m. v .-. Acceptances, for the New Zealand Cup close ou, Friday. ' ' Jockey L. Wilson ■ has been discharged from the CI Camp, and socs homo to Hastings to-day. Uα will shortly lake a trip, to Sydney; for the bcueiit of MB health, ■ , It was a tery. unfortunate thing: wiab tho imported horse Meetham should go wrong at this stage of the same, just When, the stalliou lumber had boon stripped from his frame, and he stood forth tho beau ideal of a. thoroughbred racehorse. Tho seat' of thn trouble is difficult to locate (writes "Kir Modred.i but, in the meantime, he is in the paddock ] walking lame in front. The trouble may mot he- very serious, but it has caused, a halt, iu his preparation. He had been galloping with' Hod;? , ? Drift in work, and on a- recent occasion put m a- twomile task that more than encouraged, the belief that he Wib. a stayer,, heiico the fact that ho was lieted for the Now. Zealand Cup had more reason m it than was generally realised. . Percy Mason has had two additions to his team . lately. One is the four-ycar-old Humbcr, 6y Danube from the imported, maro Addra, who has not been tried yet. Tho other is tho high-priced two-year-, old: Eossini, by -Martian-Grand Opera. This'youngster, who is-a brother to hoidier's Chorus, TannhnuEer. and Cherubim, was broken in some time ago, and. wae then turned out. He hag Krowii into a fino colt, and if he- goee on all right ho should, make his presence felt in some of. tho-big events in the autumn. TWo well-known horseman J. Olsen is amongst the latest reinforcement to. pro■ceod overeees. . . . ■ Lieutenant U. B- Brouchton, writing, to a well-known Wellington sportsman, reports, that he Jias just iimahed: Paris, leave, and that while in the-city ho had, run across A. Oliver, who, like himsof, had. pufc on. a lot of flesh since his sojourn in Franco. , It is definitely stated that Hose Pink will, not bo a, runner in tho bie event at Kurow to.-day ' Her owner psear/ls. her as, fivvourably- weighted, at. Dunedin, and will reserve her for the bis event at next week's meeting at Wingatui. When Finmark raced in the Uosehall Guineas he started an oddß-on favourite, while tho other Now Zealander, Almoner, was second, choice. Finmark pulled very hard in the. race, and.-hit the front at tho half-mllo,. hut ho had nothing left in reserve when Woorawa.; a, rank putsldor ran to him <A. the distance. Tho raco can be depended upon to sober down Finmarl:/.<wd. he is sure to do o, lot better in tie. A.J.C. Derby on. Saturday. When Kilmoon won. tho Kosehill Handioap he was the biggest outsider of tho frold, and. his victory n«i e crcat eurprise to a!l concerned. The Yaldhurat colt was ridden by- D. OlConnor. whoi kept him In hand till well into the straight, •when he made a rush at Thana, and., after o, dose-finish, got the verdict. Biptoo stripped imp of his shins irlwn ■ contesting tho-SprinM.Stakes at EoflehiU, but though he. .wore a. bandago for a couule of days, his trainer stated tha-t he had suffored no ill-effects. ■ Nobleman ti&s the first horse scratched, for tho New Zealand Cup. His owner, Mr. wT J Phillipß, had tho pen nut through his namo at noon on mbnday. . . . The disoflpointlng Kftminohe was tried in the Mhoolinir Tinp at Bicoarton this week, au*l after a few lessons(.ho shaped well. At-. Kurow to-day the first event is timed ■to-start at noon. There are bis events and two' trottme. races on the pro--for tlw-flrst clay's tojXfW at tlie Dunedin meeting close on Friday. . A'Press Association messaßO from Sydney states that Mr./W. Richmond s.trildin> St. Blmn-has been scraVh'd-f(ir■ tho First Hurdles, to-be run at. Eandwiek on Saturday. - The National, winner ■ yas allotted: list. '21b. in> ,thcjaco-mentioned.