NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 116, 10 February 1919, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[Bγ GI.EXCTK.] The Egmont Racing Club's Summer Meeting. will bo hold on Wednesday and Thursday. The two champions, Gloaming and Desert Gold, arc engaged in both weight-for-ago events, and if Ihe club is forl'iinntc enough to bR able to stago a meeting between the pair it will bo ft big factor towards ft successful gathering. At Riccarton on Saturday lleathereote ran a mile in lmin. 42soc, and' badly bent Onslaught. He is now a popular favourite for the Dunedin Cup, to bo run on Thursday. • Entries for the second dny's events at the Wnngnniii trots oloso to-day. The local trainer, H. A. Talford, turned out three winners at the Tarnnaki Meeting. His icam is to race at. the Hawera and Wnngauui Meetings before returning lo Traitham. J. H, Prosser look Restful to the Tarnnnti. Meeting, but ns nt Pahiatua. a minor place was her. best performance. The half-sister to Chalcwnna ivas railed home on Saturday and will not race at tlio Egmont Meeting, Tho Incnl owners, the Messrs'. Riddiford, were buyers at the Elderslie' sale, find the lots secured by them were a yearling full-sister to Kilboy,' which fetched only 3Ggns,, and a brown gelding by Kilbrone.y from Ruthful, for SOOgns. In addition to the stallion Kilbroney, which cost 400flgns M Mr. Lan Duncan also secured this brown mare Killona : for 2'lOgns. A filly foal by Kil.bronoy from Cliristmas Eose, for UOgns.; the imported mure Esther, for s(X)gns.; a filly foal In- Kilbroney from Esther, for lSgns.; a filly foal by Sunny Lake from Showano, for laflgns., and the bay maro Rosyth for 200gns. Trainer L. AVilson, who represented the Doughs Estate Trustees at the Elderslie stud last week, returns to Hastings this morning , ., The tiro mares he purchased will be shipped to.Napier .at the earliest opnortunity. ; Adjutant was a trfle unlucky to lose ; Hie Methven Cup. Ho was'well tilaced five furlnn.es from homo, when ho suddenly rushed tn the front, and though ho was poiiiff well at the entrance to the' sh-aiirht, his h\<> weight settled him. in the lost bit. It transpired subsequently that .his .rider, K. Youns, hnd n faintiii!r turn while the race was in progress and narrowly planed falling , off.his mount';.po that the horse did well to run m he did while, receiving so little assistance from his. rider. The Masterton Racing Club, recently drew up n programme for' its autumn race meeting, and .ormlied tn .the R.ncihir Conference for. its sanction of the 'life. .Thuridn'v, Awil 10. The secretary of the conference has telojrvnphod asVins if til's club is nwnre of t'ie fact t'>nt Hir tlnte selected is tliot fixed by.Hie Government for th» l ; eensin» poll. This [act, of course, -will necessitate a ehangiii" of Hie" date, nnd nr-'nlirhtion' will pro-l>-il>ly he..made to hold the races on T''"vsdnv, Mni-oh 9.0, Mr. G. J,.. Stead purchased the Iwo-vpjir-old geldiiiq Rtnrland prior to th» r.vHelton Plate nt. fliccarton. . is the first of Stardancer's produce to appear in public. Stardancer is a sister to Warsten. • ' . Acceptances for the Wanijanui Meetin", closo on Monday next.. .'The Dunedin Cup fixture wjl! open at "Winijntiit on Thursday and will be. conclivlnd on Saturday.' Wheii. Desert. Gold bent Gloaming in the Tnranaki Stakes, the-six'furlongs ■was run in lmin.. 13sec, which is a record, for the course. ■v Bnynrdo again topped tho li«t of winning' sires in England,' with -Polymelus ■ second. 'Siinstar was third, and The Tetrareh was ninth, a creditable nerformance seeing that it wne only iiis first season's stock who were old enough to compete. ~''''.''. W. Holmes, who used.to do a .kit of liglit-weight riding for tlie Tnldhurst stable, arrived back nt. Riccarton' this week, looking none the worse for threo years' hard campaigning. He reports t.li,it Bert Wormald. T. O'Connor, and F. .:.\V.'irCnbe,- who are, among the>Cnnterhu'ry men 'that were detailed to go to Gnllipoli and attend to the graves of our men who fell there, -were all in the best of health when he left them. ■ Gold-Gloaming race is still much discussed in spf>rtin» circles, and as the-latter is generally held to havo been-unlucky the next mee.ting between the pair is-,being looked forward to with keen interest. ' ' A well-known commercial gentleman 'who lias just arrived from the Auckland district , states that there.' was ii lot of interest in tho result of the Taranaki ; StaTie.s, and at every station (here were queries as to the result. A lecal owner, who motored homo after (lie decision of the race, states that at every town ho : passed through be had to tell groups of people just.how the race was run..