NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 62, 7 December 1918, Page 12

NOTES AND COMMENTS

' ' [By . Glexcoe.] Owing to mail delay due to the slip on the Alain Trunk line, says a Press Association telegram, liio Auckland Racing Club acceptances close at noon to-day. Sweet Corn has been leased a further three months by Air. W. G. Stead to Mr. J. A, Colehourne. The Australian-bred mare is engaged in the sprint event at Awapuni, with Bst. 131b. The Chokehore pair, Wrestler and Long Range, are not going to be raced at any of the holiday meetings. Says the sporting writer of the "Bulletin.-" about Mr. T. 11. Lowry's idol:— "Desert Gold struck two or three snags, but'there is no doubt about it that Mr. Lowry had very, good reasons for thinking 1 her unbeatable. Even after evesy- ■ thing has been said, it still true as ever that Desert Gold is a beautiful mare, the finest specimen of her 6ex ever raced on an Australian track. In conformation, action and disposition, Desert Gold is the kind of thoroughbred seen at only rare intervals. 1 hough beaten in Australia, her share in the victory of the winning horses was almost as great as her own. In every race she started in at w.f.a. the winner both on this trip and the last had to do the journey in record time. There is no reason to suppose that she is not as good now as ever she was. She must have a constitution of iron." 1 Euripos, who was operated on for 1 throat trouble ten months ago, and Post Haste,'who was turned outat the name : time, have rejoined F. D. Jones's team atEiccarton. Euripos is to.bo tried over 1 the small fences aB soon as he is for- ; ward enough. ,H. Gray is at present at the load of the list of winning jockeys with sixteen 1 successful mounts. C. Emerson' is next '■ on the list with thirteen'wins, whilst G.' ' Yoiing,' who is riding particularly well • this season, is third with twelve successes. With Gray out of the way for ' some time (as a result of tho Riccarton accident) it is probable .ho will lose his • position. ' Says a Christchurch writer of Gloam- ". ing's 'good training gallop on Tuesday V last.—"Gloaming was inclined to bo a ' little fractious, "and was trotted round • the middle until he settled down. He ', then jogged round to the mile post on ' the. grass, and, jumping off, ran the best • eight furlongs that has been done- for a long time, although it must bo taken ■ into consideration that the track was 1 excellent, and tho morning a glorious 1 one for fast work. Beginning smartly, , The Welkin gelding ran the mile in ■ limn. 40 ■t-osec, tho various times being: ! First furlong, 11 4-ssec.; quarter-mile, 23 2-ssec.; three furlongs. 36 l-osec; half- ' mile, 4!) 2-ssec." " The Masterton sportsman, - Mr. W. R.' ' Kemball, has no fewer than sixteen 1 horses in training at present. t Nothing has been definitely decidedl on » regarding the disposition of the late Mr. t A. W. Rutherford's horses. In the mean- ' time, A. M'Aulay is keeping them going ' with plenty of useful work, and they ■ should be ready to race whenovor they are required. It is understood they are ' to be offered for sale shortly. 5 Patriotic funds in Victoria are likely - to. benefit largely as the result of the lato V.R.C. Spring Meeting. The surJ plus of receipts over expenditure is said 5 to reach in tho* neighbourhood of ,£20,000. The New Zealand Racing Conference ■• has agreed to the alteration of the date 3 of tho Auckland Racing Club's Spring Meeting from November 9 to January i, > and everything is now in racing order for that date. 3 African Arrow, a three-year-old by Javelin out of African Slave, bv Kano, - son of Trenton, keeps on illustrating the | efficacy of the Carbine and Trenton com--1 bination. says the London "Sportsman." • He won the third race, of a mile and a v quarter, at Saratoga on September 22 in ' 2inin. i 2-ssec. This time is a frac--1 fcion faster than that .established by Cctigno in the Graven Plate at Band-w-ick recently. r • I A Press Association message from Grey- : mouth states that a conference of the West Coast racing and trotting clubs, in--1 eluding the Westport. Reefton, and Grev 1 Jockey Clubs and Trotting Clubs, and the Westland Racing and Trotting Club, ' decided to adhere to the Christinas and New Year programme, provided 'die embargo on sports is lifted by the Minister of Public Health. The Reefton Club. , will not race on Boxing Day, but will . hold the meeting probably on January 10 i and 11.