NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 59, 4 December 1918, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By Glen'coe.]

■ .Nominations for handicap events to be decided at the Auckland Trotting Club's Summer meeting close on, Friday. Final payments for the 1918 Great Northern Trotting Derby and first acceptances for the 19)9 Derby are due at the same time. Client was scratched for the Auckland Cup on Saturday morning. At the same time his stable mate Acre was allowed to drop out of the Railway Handicap. Probably the pair will be found racing at Awnpuni at Christmas time, as they both claim engagements therei From north it is reported that B. Decley' will have the mount on Form Up in the Railway Handicap. It is interesting 'to note that Snub, Menelaiis, Client", Bonnie Maid, Nobleman, Rose Pink, Mascot, Detroit, Bagdad, !Scornful, Dusky Eve, and Risingham, who claim engagements in the Auckland Ctip, havevalso been nominated for tho Manawatu Cup, which is run at the same time. Kilboy's brother, Kill'ein, was sold for lOOgns. at tho sale of Messrs. A. and G. Tye's lacing stock in Melbourne a fortnight ago. Now that the spring racing' is over in Australia sporting writers on the other side of the Tasman are discussing the chances of horses engaged in the St. Legers. On all sides Fininark is voted as the most likely candidate, whilst tho V.R.C. Derby winner Eusebius is regarded as having the next best chance. The Metropolitan Handicap winner, Kenmuiuhair, has not been entered in any of thfl events to be decided at tho A.J.G. Summer Cup meeting. It is probable that the chestnut will do his next racing in the autumn. Though Mr. T. H. Lowry's trip to Australia was not as successful ae was anticipated, it, cannot be said it' was a financial failure. Altogether his team won in stake money. Estlnml won X 13311. Finmark .£1157 10s., Killowen JCflSl, and Desert Gold .£SOO. Youngsters by- the spotted wonder The Tefcrarcli are literally worth their weight in gold in England at the present time. Up to September only six of The, Tetrarch'e yearlings had been sold by auction, and they averaged .EOT each. About 75 per cent, of The Tctrareh's and Hoi Herode's (sire of The Tetrarch) stock are'greys. A winner at. the Warwick Farm meeting Inst month was Sandbee, by, Sands of the Orient from Busy Hee (Gozo—lndustry), who- is a l|alf-sister, tn tho Auckland-owned Housewife. A London exchange.states that a little while back a consignment of 3(i young thoroughbreds was shipped to Egypt by the International Horse Agency, and all but three arrived safely. Among those shipped was Golden Grass, for whom lOOOgns. had been asked, but who subsequently came under the hammer, and was bought for 60gns. The way tho eonsignme.ni was dealt with was by each subscriber pooliiiff ,£l5O, and on arrival they were, balloted for. The man who drew Golden Grass was immediately offered lOOOgns. -for him. All 'those thoroughbreds, after their racing careers endj will Iμ tho nucleus of a horsebreeding establishment for the provision of remounts for the Egyptian Army.