NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 111, 4 February 1919, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By Glencoe-T The Taranaki meeting on Wednesday and Thursday, the Gis'borne meeting on Thursday, and the Poverty Day meeting on Saturday will engage the attention ot sportsmen this week At the tat-named •fixture the principal event will /be lie mcetin" of the two champions, Gloaming a id Desert Gold in the Taranaki Stakes--The three-year-old has earned a 101b. penalty making his weight fct, against the tot 111b. carried by, the nwre, who has Escaped a penalty. F. Davis profeseltoTc[most consent of the mare, but as the two-year-olds were able to, beat heir last year, and as. Gloaming is able IV beat the best of the vounsters this year, it certainly points stiongly to a. victory for' the tSftree-vear-old. It will be no disgrace for the sik-year-old to give way to youth. The old , maxim "Youth will be served" applies most especially to horses. . At Gisborne this .week the dip, one mile and a quarter, is the x pnnoipal event In the absence of Vagabond and Athens 11, form points to Cleft as having a chance second to none. An Auckland waiter reports that Mr. E W. Alison, jun., recently refused an offer of 1300-guineas for The Spanner, who seems a greatly improved \°f> The Winter Meeting of the Auckland Racing Club will this year be a three days' affair. ' « o u^» "Whalebone" in the Auckland btar states that had Teka won the <Takapuna Cup the placing* would have been reversed bv the stewards as Windorah had all the worst of the run down the straight. H. Gray, rider of Teka, was cnulicned for %n%oa < rd the Riverina, which is due to arrive at a late hour this morning, is the well-known horseman! J. 0 Mica, who went to Sydney last Angus to r d Desert Gold, and has been held up there S 'the acceptances for the Taranaki meeting to-morrow augur well for the success of the gathering. It looks as'if the Hastings-owned Ladogcur will ? art. favourite in the Cup, but the Trentham dead-heater, Rewi Poto, M emlow, and Form Up will all have plenty of frjends 01 The e Ha R stings trainer, T. F. Quinlivan, is at present on a holiday visit to Ko-

torua. „ ~ , , , r ■ w At tho sale of the late Mr. A. \\. Rutherford's hors.es at Chris church las week the two-year-old Some lud realised 350 guineas and was bought by Mr. i>. »• Rutherford. The same buyer secured Jingo for 40 guineas. _ A Sydney writer reckons Mr. b. .1. Watt's* Alii Black-Persois colt, Pershore the pick of Sydney- two-year-olds, and says he will have lo be reckoned with next year. ■ , . The locally-owned Ros.e Pink figures amongst the acceptors for the llelhven Civ) lo he decided on Thursday next. Golden Grafton, by winning twice at Takapuna, has incurred 121b. penalty tor her New Plymouth engagement, and it started will carry list. lib. Margerine and Larissa have hern scratched for all engagements at the Duuedin Autumn Meeting, states nlress Association message. Margerine was scratched at 12.10 p.m. yesterday.