NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 219, 10 June 1919, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

' [By Glekcoe.J Owners are reminded that entries for all events at (ho, Hiiwkc's Buy Jockey Club's Winter Meeting closo on Friday night, at 8' o'clock. ' The Gisborno Racing Club's Winter Meeting will be held on Thursday aud. Saturday. 'The Poverty Bay Hunt Club will'hold its annual ineetiug-'on Friday next. Whilst racing at Ellerslio Slight-of-Hand developed -bleeding troubles, and the Mystification gdlding is not. _ likely to be seen out until tho Wellington meeting next month. No impovted horse had ever won (ho Great Northern Hurdles until Cynic was successful' this year. The son of Henry the First is to race at Gisborno this week.

For t'hel first time for some years it. looks as if I/inacrc will bo deposed from the head of Hie list of winning sires iu Australia. When tlio Inst mail left The AVelkin held tlio lead, and was .£M!00 in front of Linacre, who was his. nearest opponent. The southern sportsman, 11 r. T. Demean. evidently regretted selling Kilkec afortnight ago, as lie repurchased tho horse at an advance of .£IOO tlio following Mveek. The late Mr. 11. J. Goodson, who, died at ■ Ilawera last week, was well knorfn in sporting He took an active part in racing, and bred and raced several good winners. Jargon, by Cordon Kouge-Lady Hypathin. won the Stratford Cup, Christmas Handicap i.New Plymouth), Newi Plymouth Handicap, and other good races in the well-known peacock blue, black, and gold colours, mid Cheer Up ant] yeoman, both sons of Gavotte, were bred by him 1 . In his younger days Mr, Goodson was a ko'oa cricketer and athlete,. in fact, a good all-round sportsman. ' The Taranaki horseman, H. Gray, hasalready piloted eighty winners this seaEaston, who is jnat back from .ictivo service, bad two comfortable winDing rides at Dunedin on the Birkenhead gelding Moir/imbe. The horso namod ran iu Mr. L. G. Ifazlett s colour*. The Tnvercargill sportsman purchased the son of Film for 400 guineas prior to the sccond (l«y'« racing, and as the Karanni-bred horse won some aiOO in'stakes, Mr. Hazlett soon got evfJi on'his purchase money.' ' * Whon.Nita fell in the Rteeplechaso at Dunodiii last Thursday,' H. Cokor had a collarbone broken. ' ' \mong the team at Ricciuton which }[. ilobbs has in active commission is Counter Attack, an English-tad filly by. Jae<rar—Assertive. Slift snows a lot of qualitv, and should develop into a useful stake earner next season. Counter Attack boasts a very attractive pedigree. Her sire, Jaeger, is by JiagorMes#i)«o, by Persimmon—Golden Tresses, bv Orvieto, while -"her dam, Assertive, comes from tho same family as I ilgnm s Progress, b»ing by Cocksure 11-llie inbard, by Zinfantlcl-Canterburv Pilgrim. Grand Parade, who won the Epsoni Derbv, was bred by Mr. U. Orolccr,- m whose colours the colt's sire. Orby, cap. tural the Derby twelve years ago. P. Hartigan, one of England s must successful trainers in* pre-war days, receivod very scvero wounds whilo on active service. His injuries include tlio loss of an eve and a badly-smashed toot, but this does not prevent him from personally superintending tho training ot tho horses under his charge. A Archibald, an English jockey, who beaded the list of winning horsemen in Germany for several years before war broke out, has eccepted a retainer of 4000 guineas to ride in Spain.