NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 201, 20 May 1919, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By Glenuoe.] , Owners with horses engaged at the Otaki meeting should note that acceptances close with Secretary O. J. D'Atli at 5 _ o'clock to-night. This year the New Zealand Grand National Steeplechase, three mile and a half, will be. worth 1500 sovs, the Grand National Hurdles two miles and a half, 1200 sovs, and the Winter Cup, ono mile, 1000 sovs. As -was the case prior to the war the meeting will ng'ain be a three days' one, and will' be hold on August 12, 14, and IG.

The Trentham 'minora, J. W. Lowe and J. Ay res, left for Wanganui yesterday. • The former had the jumpers Coalition tind Seadown, and Avrcs took the Connolly'Handicap candidate, Risingham, and Astinome.

With the exception of Cotillion, who is being kept going for the Taratahi meeting next weejv, the whole'of H. Telford's ieniii are spelling in the paildoclc. The Martian yearlings have been broken in, and are being jogged about' on "the I racks.

J. M'Laughlin returned from Blenheim on Saturday- night, and brought with 1 him the two mares, Comment aiul Red Signal. The former was successful in * the big handicap on (he. middle day-of the Marlborough meeting, but Red Signal failed to score. The pair are to be given a few days' spell before racing again.

The syndicate of owners who purchased Comment during the Wellington mpfitinx is now more, than even on the Letho mare, consequent upon Her 'win at Jtiverlnnds, where she v paid . n good price;

At Trentlmni, on Snturdny. ■ (jjonlition mid Sendown were schooled over fences, .nnd-both jumped well. A. Reed has been engaged to ride Astinome in her engagements nt the Wongnnui meeting ; i:his week. Ynluablo rain foil at Trcntham. on Sunday, and nil <),-iy yesterday, nnd tli.o ('raining tracks got a much-needed sonking. ... "

. During his absence at Wanganui and Ellerslie. the four yearlings in J. Lowe's slables are being jogged'-'about bg the tracks at Trentham, but' their tasks are of the light order.

A recent addition to tho Endeavour, Lodge team at' Trentham is the big Martian' golding Johnny Walker. The runner-up, in the New Zealand Cup lcoks remarkably well, and is as sound now as ever lie was. Present intentions are to have him schooled for hurdle racing. In addition to the two Martian youngsters , already reported, H. Telford has also; taken in/hand a couple of yearling colts, by (Bezonian from Sntisfairo and Paphia. I C. Pritehard is takiiig'Mni.itua, Esperance, and Rienzi to the Taratahi meeting next week. J. Ayres will take Bonviilc and Justification, arid H. Kingan will take Pacific Slope, and J. M'Laughlin willt'he represented by Comment and Red Signal.- 8 Owing to the difficulty of getting'back to EUorslie in time for the Great Northern meeting, J. Lnmbess has decided not to tako JCaiyri .King to the Wanganui. meeting, which is to.be held on Thursday and Saturday. j Mr. Ernest Alison, of Auckland, lias received advice that} a- yearling by Limelight from Fleetstreet,', was purchased on his "behalf after the Sydney sales.