NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 124, 19 February 1919, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

■~'.,. [By Glencoe.] If Gloaniing'wins.the two classic.evente he is entered for at Wanganui Ke will increase his earnings , by the sum of .£750. The Jackson Stake are worth £400"to the winner, and the.Wanganut Guineas' i3jO. . . . ,• . While contesting the Haslett Memorial Plate at Wingatui on Saturday, Killjoy went wrong,, and is unlikely.to fulfil any of'ha , "immediate, engagements..-. •.. ; -.

' Tliere ia a likelihood of Sasauoif, Desert. Gold, and Gloaming meeting in the Trenthain .Gold Cup, to be decided at the autumn : mebting of the Wellington Hacing.Club. If a meeting of the trio takes place'there'will be a lot of interest in the' event; : 'and this card alone should bo a'great draw to an already popular meeting'. '■. When last Sasanoif and Gloaming met Sasanpff won. This was in -'the Stead Gold , Cup. Messrs. Lowry and Greenwood afo both staunch. supporters j of ;the Wellington Eacing ,Club,. and if

possioie their liorses are rare to 'see'the >>ost.

" Mr. 11. Chisholm, tho Sydney an tioneer, who. was present at.the D.J.C meeting on . Duriodiu'- Cup .Day, slate that he was sorry to sod Mr. W. '1 Hazlelt se.oure Sprig tjf Erin at. tli Eller.slie .Stud dispersril sale, as he wouli very 'much- have liked to hnvq bough thei" Iriah-bjreil Imntron for Australia. Tho well-lniown New South Wales blood stock salesman also said that, of all th foals ho saw ,it Eklerslie he had no hesi tation in placing tho baby daughter p Rilbi-oney and- S\mg of Erin, first- ii order of merit of the fillies. Hn de scrilml her as a beautiful, youngster. "Sir • Modred" in the "Southlnni Tiine» v says:—"At H'o. finish of th< Cimmpninie State at Duuedin norliini was galloping better than the thin iuvenile Smiart. Ho got away slowly but. was finishing in great style and witl an easv, sweeping stride. Ho is a colt l>; Sunny' Lake, and if Mr. J. B. BeijV: stallion is going to sire racehorses witl action like the youngster referred to, thei his fame is going to live again throustl his progeny—in his dav Sunny Lake, b; Sandridge— Pearl of the Loch, proved speedy horse, carrying tho colours o: the late King Edward. .-.•■' •Minister, who was successful in.tin Tβ-Kuiti'Cup , on Saturday; scored ii the'raco two .years ago. He had liieli an -his-side in Saturday's race, .for tin favourite. Royal Irish, got tangled ii the tapes and lost a lot of ground Otherwise it is almost certain he woiilt have reversed positions with the Spal peon gelding. It appears that the start for the Wai hola Handicap at Wingatui on Saturday was -such. n, bad one that on Bon Spec returning' to salute the judge,- the stewirds would not' allow him to cuter the paddock as a winner, until the startei returned and declared that it was a ,tart, • •'"■' . ■ , t i .1 ■ Palamona; a winner at Launceston tins nonth, is a four-year-old mare by Carto -rSimilette, by" Similo-La :Eeinc, by St. Gertrude. She was bred by •ho late Sir George MT,ean, and as a rearling was sold to a-Tasmnnian sportsnan for 40 guineas.- -. '-. Lao, by Canteen, has been-racing well ato'ly in Tasmania. Like her sire, who von the New. Zealand Cup, she is grey Ii colour. • ~ ■ ■: : • ■The racehorse Biplane, was on. board :he steamer- Moeraki, which came out of lUarantino this morning,-says tho Sydney 'Sun" of February G. Tho. steamer has jef-ii held no for a week since her arri-,-ul--.frqm New Zealand. Biplane .was Vurchased some-time ago by the Sydney iportemaiii'Mr.-T.-A. rStirton, and the >rice ivas said to. be- 3000 guineas.. It vas, expected that .Biplane would win >ack n share-'of this.big outlay at the iutumn> meetings this season, : but the jrpspect of-immediate racing.is indefinte. The .postponement of the fixtures nil enable the trainer of the four-year-ild, to.have him ready for his engagen'onts whenever the sport:is resumed, dierens, if-the, original dates, had been dhered to, the period of quarantine ,-onltl -probably have interfered with his (reparation • ■ to.. such an extent. as to irevent-hi,i striking his best iorm in ime for the big events. He needs a reat deal'more fast work .than, most liorovtghbreds.7, .Biplane was; ho steamer.Jloeraki-this. morning to his iewJ qnar.tera.'at. the • ntable Of T. , F. Iciilly, at" Ranilwiclc, and despito his coninement on the. steamer for nearly a ortnight,. lie.lqpked well. Biiilnno has iro'wir, into.a' particularly handsome .riiinal. .... . .■•'.-. ■■ : ' Trombone, ■ who ivon : the ■ coucludiii!? ivenf at the-Egmpnt E«cing Club's nnetiriK last ~-week, is ;by Zimmerman ro'm. Orchestra/ so that he is a halfirbther to The-Cnrnet, a successfuL.perornier a feff years .ago on the colours ■J Mr. D.vH. Koberts. ■ . The CJ.C. Stewards' Handicap winnor, ?orm 'Up,• is an acceptor in both'the 3up and the Stowards' Handicap, run in rtho openin? day- of the v .'aiiKaiuu iiefeting/. As the .Formative gelding has (V ,far ■ failed to: get'. a distance successr , iilly, his owner' will probably elect to tn.r't him in-ihe. owning event. ,' ' ■•,:■ The ' defection of .-Nobleman from' the Cun was hardly expected, but ividently his "owner" thinks-that a mile m\ threc-quartors is ii bit the ether of. the .Sir Laddo gelding, and nost likely he will be reserved for some if tlie smaller autumn meetings. There, is a-di*i>osition to'mnko Silver .ink j a . good -fliyonrite -. for ■.- the Flying landiyvp. - TIIS Achilloß ]']v is at Sst.Glb., which'is 121b libro.s than she carriecr , successfully at ?rcntham. ■- ' ; ■''■':■■ '' ■'