NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 63, 9 December 1918, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

' [By Glencoe.] Acceptances for the Manawatu -Racing Club's'first day events and final payments'for the Palmerston North Stakes close on Wednesday at 8 o'clock. Four Trentham-trained 'horses have been left in the Auckland Cun in Menelaus, Mascot, Bonnie Maid/ and- ltose Pink. They are all to make the trip, a Both Desert Gold and Killowen failed "to make the necessary acceptance for the Auckland Cup and Railway Handicap. It. was thought that Mr. J/wry might giro his mare a run. vu the Cup,*b';t apparently he considers the weight excessive. Mr. Lowry r.nd trainer F. Davis, arrived in Auckland last week from Sydney. 80-Peep's iiamo is missing from the list of acceptors for the Railway .Handicap, and the Bezonian filly .will probably be found racing at Awapuni on Boxing Day. Another absentee from the Jillerslie event is Croesus, but Desert Gold's half-brother has ulways shown a liking for the Awapuni track, and ho also may be found there on Boxing. Day. Jockey A, J. MTlinn is to have tho mount on Bonnie Maid in (Tie Auckland Cup. A. Reed will be on Menelaus, L. Morris on Masc.ot, and C. Emerson oil Kilmoon. Wrestler has been purchased from Sir George Clifford by Mr. W. B. Clarkson, a patron of J. Pearson's stable. The Antagonist horse, who was taken delivery of last week, is to be added to the list." Murray Hobbs's trip has been abandoned, but lie is to be represented af some of the southern holiday meetings.^|Tho hurdler Wishful is at present running out in the paddock, and he is not to be taken up again till the autumn, Ukraine, dam oC Susanof, Moutoa Ivanova, and Vasilkov, has foaled a colt to Boniform. Old Sir Solo is to accompany Red Ribbon to Ellcrslie. The mare is regarded to. be a sure starter in the Cup. A winner at the Moorefield (N.S.W.) Meeting ■ last month was Pretty Baby; who is by Alniissa. from Saint Devote, a mare 1y Wallace from Cruciform. When the Inst mail left Home, Lady James Douglas was at the head of the list ofivinning owners with ,£13,410, all of which the crack colt Gainsborough had wou. Tho ex-Australian sportsman, Mr. A. W. Cox, was sixth on tho- list with ,£(527, but, of course, he has not a Gay Crusader racing for him this seneon. S. Donoghiie was first on the winning jockeys' list with 64 successful mounts, whilst the Australian, "Brownie" Carslake, was second with 35. , ■ ' The best two-year-old in England at •the present time is considered to he The Panther. The colt, who is a son of Tracery, winner of .£19.000 in stakes, was offered for salo recently, and, according to the London "Sportsman," a. reserve ot 40,000 guineas w r as placed on him. heedless to say, tho colt was not sold. The French sire, Ivenilwort'i, w-ho wa,s sold at tho Merton dispersal salo for (SOW guinens, is a son of Childwick, who m," to Topiary, dam of Tracery. The Wag, sire ,of Kilbroney, is also a brother to. Childwick nnd Topiary. Childwick -as a yearling was sold for GOOO guineas, which price was a record until that great mare Sceptre was sold for 10,000 guineas at the same age. .