THE TURF
, —: —-♦- NOTES AND COMMENTS [By Glekcoij.] Owners are reminded that entries for 'the . Wellington Bacing Club's Winter Meeting'close on-Friday next at 9 p.m. ■ Present appearance's point to Elierslie'trained horses iiguriiig .largely at the Trentliani'meeting-next month. The Winter Meeting -of .the Napier Park liaeing Club,will be held on Friday and Saturday of this week. Much interest "will be taken in tho meeting, as several fresh aspirants for hurdle honours aro due to run on the days mentioned.
The Now Plyiiioutli-traiifed Lady Black and-Dainien were railed to Napier allotthe Levin meeting, and will race at I" Park-meeting this week. Another early arrival at.Groenmeadow.s was the Damicvirko trainer, A. Pluniuior, who has six horses under his care.
A recent mail froni. Sydney states that the Martian gelding Snub has been .regularly schooled by'Sta'n Ueid, and'has jumped well. He'i? to bo a runner in the V.B.C. Grand National Hurdle-*,, three miles. .Beltane is also in the race with !)st. 12lb. He, too, has bceu schooled-by Beid, and-has jiiinped'wcll. The Auckland-owned- Thrace, who figured largely at the Great Ao'rthern meeting; has -.been entered for- tin, HawKe's Bay Hurdles,. to bo run next week. '■
The Grand National winner, Kauri King, who failed to show up when well fancied at Ellerslie, is to be raced at Trouthaiu next month.
• Tho live leading sires in England for 1918 were Bayanio, Polymclus, Sunstar, Chaucer, :and-Orby. Tho last-named got a distinct lift this season as tlio sire of Grand .Parade, 'tlio--Derby winner.. ,He has had quite a. number of stake oarners. At Greeumeiidows S.' Waddell is jumping a. six-year-old gelding that is closely related to Audax. The Great Northern Hurdles winner. Cynic, is to bo'entered for tho hurdle races at Trentliani, .and after racing here "lie will go on to Biccarton. The rising three-year-old full sister to Desert Gold will race .as. D'Oro, and a youngdr sister has beeit named Acacia. ; Tho Calibre gelding Silent Way" has been put to hurdle racing on the other side.'-- He finished second in a. jumping event at Bendigo last month. .- 'The chestnut gelding Gunwalo ar-rived-at Napier yesterday, and will facb in tho hurdle events'there this-week.
The ex-New Zealander, J. N. M'Grcgor, is once .more, in -a hospital in Victoria. This time his .trouble, is concussion of the brain, received when his mount, Louvro, foil in a- brush steeplechase at Ballurat early this month.- ■-. While the war was on bloodstock almost went begging in .-England, as racing was;at a-standstill and the markot vyai glutted. Since the cessation of hostilities, lioiveyerf conditions have changed.'Buyers, according to an English writer,, will find it difficult to get anything- at _ all fashionably-bred for pre-war. prices. Corses that would perhaps have gone for 200gns. a little time back would now "bring a thousand guineas.. The'six-year?, old' horse ' Furore- (Fugleman—l'-appol) has recently been sold for GOOOgns; Control, a tkree-ycir-dld- bay colt by Chaucer, found-a-new owner at 4500gn5.; an2200gns. was paid for Damar, a three- ■ year-old'colt-by Polyinelus from Damage •[Desmond— Stopgap). \ ' ■ It is' estimated'that the 'bloodstock left behind by the English sportsman the late Sir. A.- W. Cox was valued at •■£200,000. Ho bequeathed it to his brother. It is believed that,if the tripkrcrown winner, Gay-Crusader, were offered for sale, 'the Bayardo liorso would realist between .£10,003 and - JC50.000.
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