NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 202, 21 May 1919, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By Glw-'cof..] Acceptances for the Tar.itnhi-Carter-ton Meeting close to-night at 9 o'clock. I'lie telegruph office at Carterton closes at .8 o'ejock. .',' . • 'lhe; Winter (Meeting .of the Wanganui Jockey ,Ciul>' will open to-morrow, and will be concluded on - Saturday. The' North Otago Jockey .'Club's, Winter Meeting -will be held to-niorrow ami. on Friday. The Oamaru Club does not eater much .tor jumpers, ami the.ru is only-a hurdle'race on. each'day lor lcpj/jrs. While, schooling "Naupnta at Riecar'ton on Saturday L. Hegarty got a bad fail,.but. luckily no bones were broken, and alter being'knocked out for a Unio lie .was able t,i go to his h6me. ■" With :thc exception of Euripos and' Bore none of the Canterbury, team. uiw to race at. the Wangainii Meeting.

A. Shearsliy -will, leave Awapuni today, '■ with Sleight-of-Hand, and RolMniation,- who. have . engagements «i Ellerslie next, month. .', .' Tho Eiccarton-trained Art passed through Wellington yesterday on his •way to the Great Northern Meeting. He •will be ridden.at Ellerslie by I l '. Doiiji-lavwho-luia just returned from :lU* front. „."■■'■ , J. M'Combo took Bonsign, Pyjama, and Subterfuge back to Riccarton after ilw Tiinaru Meeting, but JBelair was sent, on to Oamaru-, and will race there' im Thursday and Friday.-. ' Wrestler, who has been spelling for some time, has again commenced work at Riccafton. ■. Thrace schooled, so. badly over the big •fences at Ellerslie on Saturday that it La s been decided not to go on with his engagement in the . Greiit Northern Steeplechase. . A two-year-old. sister to Braid change hands last week, having been purchased by a Dunedin Bportsman from Mr. G. L. Stead. ' .„• : The A.J.C. : Autumn, Meeting will w continued at Randwick to-day. Gladfut is engaged in the Hurdles, and as ho lad..not had a race for a considerable time'when he .ran on Saturday, lie ■should-do'-n.,10t-better- to-day.. , ; ,

■ ; The acceptances for. ..the jumpniß events at Wanganui are disappointing, sind it looks as if the winter sport will •no) be up to the standard oft'previous -years.. It may be that the continued bard state of the tracks has knocked a lot of 'horses out, but whatever the cause clubs have reason to view the prospects in anyhing but a hopeful light. . The Auckland Racing Club has decided in hold a spocial general meeting to consider the question of) erecting a '/new and up-to-date, totalisator building. .There: is a disposition to make Yankee Jack.the fancy for the Century Hurdles at Wangaunj.yfor which the field is not a strong oneV The Frisco gelding will have to lie taken'on trust as a 'stayer, , but he has a nice handy ■ woight, and seems to finish on well in his races.

iVimoa, who is one of the prime fancies for the Great Northern Hurdles, will be a runner in the Century Hurdles to-morrow, and a win for him will bring his Ellersiie weight up to list. Paraoa has not had a race ovsr fences •for some- time, but let month he beat a useful field in the Feilding Cup, one mile and a half. 'He is certainly (ho best stayer in the race. He is to be' ridden by J. Deerey, who hits been at New : Plymouth frequently • of late to school the King Bnfus gelding.

Though he has been accepted for in both the Hack Hurdle? and tbo Century Hurdles at Wnngnnui to-morrow, it is generally expected that Euripds will bo slurred in tho big event. 'Polthogue, who won the Opeke Steeplechase at the Egmont meeting on Thursday 'last, is ah aged son of the. Ans. fralian-brcd sire Patroims. Pc.ltho.ijue is engaged in the Wanganni Steeplechase, for whieu event he was originally weighted at Sst. 71b., but a 101b. penalty follows his victory at Haweia. and as u ■ result his impost in the Wuugaiiui race will be raised to 10 ; f. 31b.

The Caiilfipld Cup winner-of IS9B. Cremorne, died .Inst month in Australia.* mid would have Attained the. ago of SO years had be lived another few months.

Cable advice received in Auckland tin Friday was to the effect I hat .1. O'Shoa had left Melbourne for Sydney during the- week. • This can ho tnkfii to mean that the Auckland .horseman has made ,1 Rood recovery from- Hie attack of influenza which seized him.

The brood inn re -Dearest met with a serious accidont at Wniltanao some time buck, and it took all the efforts of Stud Groom Handley to save Hi? dniigl'ter of Sou't. Dearest has a tine colt foal to a Boniforni, mid is again in foal to the same «ire. Already a good price he* hecn refused for the .colt.

. Most of the trotting'studs in Russia, have been confiscated by the Bolshevists, and ATillV. 2.05 was sold for 285., while General H., 2 013. and other famous horses nhared a very similar fate, says an English paper.