THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 70, 17 December 1918, Page 8

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[BY GLUNCOE.]

Pinal payments ami acceptances for events to be decided at the Auckland liacing Club's Summer Meeting are due by Friday. On Boxing Day race meetings will be held at Ellerslie, Mew Plymouth, Awapuni, iuikoura, and Dunecliii. For the Auckland Cup, Kilmoqn is the most spoken of in local sporting circles, whilst for the lUiilway Handicap Onslaught is .still the iuling choice. Client, who tilled the role of runner-up to Nobleman in last year's Mauawatu Cup, is best liked in this year's. Cup. Parisian Diamond is utl'tacting 'most attention in the Fitzherbert-Handicap. A big team of southern horses who claim engagements at Ellerslie are due here this morning from Christchurch. The Trentham contingent for the Auckland Cup meeting will commence its journey to-morrow. J. Lowe is taking Ateneliius, Mascot, and Solfanella; A. Goodman Hose Pink, and J. Ayres Bonnie Maid. S. Reid left Awapuni yesterday for Ellerslie with Birkenvale and the tivo-vear-olds Warplano and Ermine. They will be joinedv in"-the north by Cherry Mart and Neglige, who wore sent up for the November meeting and have remained in the north. ( C. Emerson, who has been laid up with influenza at Iticcarton,■ lias recovered suf iiciently to be ablo'to proceed to .Auckland, and he will ride Kilmoon and the otliir members of the Yaldlmrst team at Ellerslie. It has been decided that the C.J.C. Oaks Winner, Punka, will race at the Dunedin and Invercargill fixtures during the holidays. The Southland Cup is this year woa'th 1000 sovs., and there is every promise'of a high-class field contesting it. Though Suub won the Canterbury Clip when conceding a. pound to Sasanof, his victor, y is generally regarded its a ilulte; and he is not being much discussed in connection with the Auckland Cup, in which he looks like starting one of the outsiders of the field. Not many horses linvc won three Derbies, but it looks only a matter of health for Air. G. J). Greenwood's Gloaming lo earn this distinction next week. Already ho has placed the A.J.C. and C.J.C. blue ribands to his owner's credit, and the opposition to him at Ellerslie in the (.iivat Northern /lieroy dot's not look to be strong now that Punka 'is not to go north, it appears that Gloaming may meet most opposition front Kilmoon and the. elect of the Chokekore Stable, Sir< George Clifford having both Onslaught ami' lleathercote engaged.' Though i Gloaming is suro lo be a hot order, it is doubtful if ho'will carry the support that Estland did when the soil of Finland won last year. _ , Kiljoy, who is engaged;in the Christinas Handicap at Ellerslie on Boxing Day, was responsible for a very smart five fui'longs at llicoarton on' Saturday morning. E. Warner, who rode Mullingur to victory in the Avoniiale Cup', will have themount ,on the son of Marble Arch in the Auckland Cup-. . IteiVi Polo is an acceptor in the Christmas Handicap at the Xaraaaki meeting, and in the .Mauawatu C'up. Both events are run on the same date, and'it is not likely that Eewi Polo will be seen at Aw-ipuni. The postponed. meeting of tho Ash-'hurst-Pohangina Racing Club is to be held on Monday, December 30.—Press Association.