NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 179, 24 April 1919, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By, Qlencoe.] Gay Lad has been withdrawn from all engagements at. the Wellington meeting. , .Cnvuers. are reminded that entries ior the coming MarllJorough fixture close tomorrow, night at 5 o'clock. Acceptances lor the first day's handicaps, at tho Wellington meeting close on Saturday, at I) p.m. Returned visitors from tho Auckland meeting stale that L. H. Hewitt got a good reception from the crowd when ho won the'ilas'ter Handicap on Uncle Ned, Hewitt has not keen'much in the limelight of late, and his friends were pleased to see .him {jetting a winning turn. Visitors to tho TauhereuiKnu meeting on Saturday should note that arrangcnients have becil made with the Railway Depai'tui«ut to run a special tram from Lambton Station to the camp siding, which'is within easy walking distance of the 'coui'soi ■ The .Wairarapa and Aromlale meetings will open on Saturday next. The traiii arrangements for the Wairar'upa Racing Club's mooting at Tauherenikau, oii April 2(1 and 28, are advertised in this issue. His win at Feikliiig.will run Waimatao into a 51b.-penalty for the Wardell Handicap at Tauherenikau;. while Sinionides will have to put up a 101b. penalty. • . ■ ' An extraordinary yearly happening in connection with the Great Eustt-r Handicap running is that the favourite for the Great Autumn Handicap invariably runs a .smashing race-in tho seven-fur-longs ' events, but regularly fails in tho louEer race. This was the case with Expect in li) 14, with. Menelaus last year, and with Red Ribbon this year. It seems as if .tho'first race is run at too fast a pace for the. horses which «re. used to longer distances, and the hard efforts to keep"within striking distance takes too much out of them to enable them to saddle up fresh on the following day. 'According' to a message published yesterday, the 'Randwick yearling sales evoked little interest. The progeny ot the d.uaV Derby winner Bcragoon (Mtilti-form-Wigelmar) topped the market. This is Beragdon's second batch-of yearlin"s to come on to' the market, ana it present indications .ore' any guide, he is going to turn out a good , sire. One ot his first gets a colt' known as Bigaroon, has an unbeaten Tecord so far this sea-son,-and isbeing/.tallced o.Mii connecrtion with next year's Derbies. . Of the yearlings sold on' Wednesday . a Uera-goon-Lady Rufus. colt brought 725gns. Lady.Rufus was never raced.. She is a half-sister to Largesse (the dam of.,the •Dpu'ro-Cup winner Palm Oil), borne by Kins Eufiis from Keepsake, A colt by the same sire from Gcmlet brought 550 gns. This colt comes of a good family, his dam Gemlct- being by Bobadil from Ringlet (a sister to font good performer ■Armlet), by ■ Menschikoff from. Armilla (dam of Armigcra, who gave tho turf Poitrina, Aries, and the. 1909 N.Z. Oaks winner Ingoda). The New Zealand-bred Reputation (Martian— for the first time reprsented at .the. sale, when a colt out of Disniay brought 410 gns. Dismay is a half-sister to the dam of Wakefield (Insomnia),'aiid is almost a sister in blood to the dam. of Bon Reve, being-by Mostyn from .Nightmare (dam of Mentor, Dreamland, Class, and La Tosca, and granddam of F.J. A., Noctuiform Nightfall, Midnight Sun, and Bon Ton,'etc.). . . '.. It cannot be said that good luck has been.with J. M. Cameron, who tqok__a team over to .Australia last winter. . So far Cameron lias faied to win a race.. Impediment up to date has been placed second thrice (in the Geelong and St. Kilda Cups, and in the M nonce Valley Handicap). Lingerie and Molyneux have

each run second once. St. Elmn broke down alter running third in a steeplechase at Randwick last spring. He was sent home, only to meet his death. The .National winner not caught in a fence, and was injured so severely as to ncccwi.tate his destruction. A.J. M'Plinn had tho mount on Desert Gold- in the A.R.C. Easter' Handicap. According to Auckland writers the mare looked very well, and ran a. great race under her big burden. It was only tho weight that beat her. and she is at the top of her form again. The well-bred Golden Bronze again came to light at Roseliill this month, when the gelded son of Bronzino-Golden Slip per started at a good price, ami accounted for the field in tho Club Handicap run over a tcn-furlonj? course. At tho' same meeting Pinmark ran tourth in the Raivson Stakes to Wolaroi, Bursar and Rebus. A peculiar incident in connection with the running of the Onlcaparmga Cup at Adelaide on Monday is noted m the niacin" of Dependence second. Dependence has contested the Cup for the. last three years, and has filled a place on each occasion, being second in 1917, third in 1918, and second again last Monday. Australian writers, through enforced idleness, on account of the influenza epidemic, have set out to try and discover the next likely Derby winner. Amongst tho youngsters mentioned is Perseis, a New' Zealand-bred colt by All Black from Pershore, by Positaho from Urce, by Castor from Cissy, the' last-mentioned mare being a sister to Trenton (MusketFrailty). Perseis is oyned by Mr. h. ,T. Watt, and is trained at Randwiek by the ex-Wellingtonian, J. Whitworth.