NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 9, 5 October 1918, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fBY OLENCOK.I . ' Local Bportsmon will bo interested i:i the running at Kaiidwiek to-d;i>'-. „ There are'no iN'ew Zeuliuid-oWued horse) engaged in tho ilurdleo but there are representatives in all tlio other cvontß. Most inter- - eut will centre in the Derby, lor whicJi Gloaming and Finmark are the two best fancied hortcs, Tho 'runaway victory of the-former iu the! Olielnißford Stake? entitles him to a lot'of consideration, but it" has to-bo remembered that in to-day's nice he will carry 281b. more, and further, ho i 6 by. The Welkin; whose stock in tho past hmi been noted more for brilliancy . thau for staying. Fiumark was beaten in the Kosehill Guineas, and for this ho'lost many admirers for tho Derby, but tins hardly' seems justified, for according to tho accounts of tho race, ho jmlled himBelt to the front half a mile from home which would, hardly be correct tactics ou a lioreo having liie first ruco of the EeaHon. F. Davis will sec that' the . same tactics do not prevail today. Almoner ie also in the Derby, but the Yaldlutrst colt- raced very badly iu tho Itosohill Guineas, and us he is reported to have bcon lame when working lie can be left ont of calculations. l<) the writer it always seemed as if Almoner was a bit overrated. He certainly won tho Breeders' Plate, but lie was fortunate enough to get what is lmown as n "fly" at the start of the race. His subsequent form *as poor though ho won a race at Flemington and also scored v the Jliddlo l'nrlt Plate, but the heat! division in the.latter race was not vt o!«ssy. aud the runner-up was Eleus. ■> is still a maiden. It. will be a sur if Finmark does not provo the fo'rf Itosohill to be correct as far as A' , -' is concerned.-, I Tho favourite for the hosondicap is the imported horn {Cyglau— Monwiiiion), who won tin Handicap at liundwick, oo the-do Ins scored his runaway victory, neored in the Hantou Two-ycar-r at Newmarket before going to | When he scored at'Bandwick 1 lib. in the saddle/ nnd cut ou in lmin. 391 MC. which would i a pretty Bond Ep«om Handicap i is a very hk field in the railuck of tho draw will play nl part in tlio remit or the race. , It is to be resulted/ that r cone wrom; <Uid will b.-; mmDtsert Gold in the Spring Stair and n half. Not that- he won to defeat tho chauinion. who! ln> an wrll, if not better, thr- gj. was in her life. A New Zeal: - mnn who is just hack from lr" Kr ; . 11,6 wi-i'k stales that Desert -Oold tmff cut- in Brent style on the trwki", ai.., WOKS in rare condition. Ho Hunks that with favourable conditions she Is sure to do some record breaking on the trip. The dWanri- of the Spring Stakes, whirh Di'Mrt Oold is to contest .it Bnmmick to- , . d:tv (u the interests of patriotic tmitif, is oiip milo and a half. Tlio rnco is worth well over £1000 to the winner. Ilii" citirlM'for tin- race numbered twenty-four, lint the. field will lio.ofltuidernMy '' cd '; c ™ before it readies the barrier.. Desert (.old gets into tho race wfW'.led at. 9st. lib., whilo Ootipne.' Linnle, The Fortune Ilimter. and others hnvo to concede her 5!1i.. ninl Wolnvoi h.i 3 to pon"cd(- lier «b. Pnacn Ylridis, I'oitrel, and Thana aro each in receipt of lib. , '. ... Tlio Metropolitan Handicap, m which Kstlaml lias bo™ eccojitcd for, is to be rim at- llimdwick on Monday. Wohioi s top-weiKlit (9st. 61b.), and Mtland is seventh' on tho list with Bst. 131b. Tho field for the Duncdin Guineas, to be run noxt wcok. looks like bcins above tlio ™evw o previous years. It will include ■EMinpJ Sen"™™. " ml 5, ,t P, ft!t *'"• newi as two and thrcc-ycar-olds. l|. W Kichniond'B .Austrnlian purchase U'i'o has nsain uono wronpr, and is K'mik ■iinMlnn-" Uif trnlnor,-0. ,Tr,-ies. is taking J'viral or Mr. W. G. Stead'e team to the Mnstcrton, Trentlmm, and Kiccarton Jtoet■'"tUi ex-!<mt to which liorse-racinc is taxed' intho Dominion w»s *';■! of i>v "'- lion, v>: W. Alipon at H, L . n-nmml mooting or the Tftknnuni -Toc-,-pv Olnli on Wcdn..sr!ov. Ho rfnrf *Ut diirinc tlio 'pant vi-nr raelnir olubs nlonO lion.' ' DonaHoiie i for ™ l, ; i v 0 o t^, |^"'"^i''. ZJiritVf n..'.norti ni ? Ml-Wl'Mlty ™ Indipi-tivi hv OiP fflPt that tli» >pw 7" bnd Vo,iw hnd ™m»~ rnwitlv tint nil «p.rtOn« nrotit? " f Oluhs rt-Hlld 1"> dnvotod to «"'• poses during tho currencr .., . A ohnulteur io o .::.:-V ficp-rs tit Ciimn G 1 : ;';' linnairo noveral t: .'■' • Sensliclls munn . »^ tions 6i tho air, i ,■ ~ able.- are. collected -. . its shape aro broug