NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 195, 13 May 1919, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[Br Glencoe.] .. Nominations for all events of the Horowhenua Meeting, to bo held oh June li, close on Friday next at 8 p.m. .Tlie E-ginont .Meeting will.take place oh.Wednesday aud Tnursday. ■ -Messrs. J. b. Ai'Lcfld,and Ji. A. Russell have been appointed to repiesent tlie Hawke's Bay J,.C. at the New Zealand Racing Conl'ereuco, to bo held iu July. A. Oliver recently wrote to a friend in Chrislcliurch staling that hediad beeu engaged'to ride tor the' -Hon. Ucorgo ■Lambton.' Tho last-named trains lor Lord Derby, and next to' the famous Alec Taylor he has tlie biggest team in commission in England, so tnat Uliver is distinctly fortunate "in becoming as'so-, ciatcd with such a, stable. By the Kia Ora, which arrived at Lyttelton, the well-known hurdle horseman, •W. Emerson, returned from active service. /At the sale of the late Mr. D. Buick's racing stock ias.fl week,""'the woll-periorm-ed Taiigiinoana was sold for 21 guineas to Mr. D. Buiok, junr. Other lots sold •were;— Brown colt by Sarto—Tangimoana, C. H. Washer, Huwora, liigns.; chestnut mare, Abermoana, by 'Aberbrothock— Tangimoana, J. A. M'Gill, 15gns,; bay filly, San Francisco—Tangimoana, J. M'Gill, lSgns.; black mare. Rangihenc, by l'apakura—Elusion, W. Jewell, Wgns.; chestnut filly, California—Rangihenc, J l '. Williams, Wellington, llgns.;' brown filly, Aberbrothock—Rangihene, C. Jones, Woodville, 23gns.; chestnut mare, Kuralitzer, by Pupakura—Austerlitz, A. J. Toxward, 30gns. At a meeting of the' Hawke's Bay Jockey Club held last week, it was decided to increase the stakes for the winter meeting by ',£7OO. H. Gray will be on Simonides, Marqueteur. and Cadet in their Egmont engagements. A private message receive'd in-We.l-i lington yesterday states that Hie A.J.C. Autumn Meeting, which has been postponed on account of the epidemic, will open on Saturday next, when the Done.ister Handicap, one mile, will be run. Tho Sydney Cup comes up for decision on Monday. Crown Pearl, who is engaged in the Tongahoo Hurdles, has • been racing for several seasons, and when at anything like his best ho is a top-notch hurdler. Ho has not raced since tie ran second to Thrace at Avondale in tho spring. Spanner cost Mr. E. W. Alison V 5 guineas as a yearling. The Auckland sportsman won iiSOO in stakes with the Australian horse and then sold him to Mr. W. Richmond for 3000 guineas, so tnat he did well on his outlay of 75 guineas. ... Though he has not had a race this season, Yellow and Black is-reported lu be well forward in condition, and Mr. P. Armstrong's chestnut is not likely to bij neglected on Wednesday at the Egmont Meeting. The two-year-old Golden. Bubble, who was injured soon after liis arrival at Greenmeadows, has again joined the active brigade-uiider G. Jones. : Included in R. Gooseman's team at Hastings is a full-brother to 'Ma, and a coming three-year-old by Mystification from Bliss. Both are owned by Mr. <i. Hunter, M.P. The Marlborough Meeting will be opened at Riverlfwds to-day. The Holds will be on|.thi) small side,-and several of the horses are in two events. In ihe Cup B. Deeley will have the mount uu Rose Pink, and Henry Clay will be ridden by P. Johnston. The Pateona, which sailed for Picton yesterday, had on board the following horses:—Rose Pink, Trentham Rose, Pervola, Russett, and Rakaia, in charge of A. Goodman, J. M'Luughlin took Comment and Red Signal. M. Williams took Mantalvo, E. Carmont had Metallum, Gold Problem, and Ladify, and E.' Penman went over with Some Girl, .lockers, B. Deeley, A. Reed, C. Reed, C. Price, B. H. Morris, L.--Morris, and I l '. Corlett wero also on board.'