THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 257, 25 July 1919, Page 9

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By Glencoe.)

A final reminder is given all concerned that acceptances for the three big (ivents at tiio (J.J.C. National meeting clo.-e to-night, ami at the same time genhmi onirics are line.

Wood acceptances have been received for the Manawatu Hunt Club's meeting wliieli takes place on tlie Awapuni course on Wednesday next. ' The jumpmg events liavo iiiled well, as have tlie Hat ra«-». and given fine weather, a. sueccsst'u! lueetinu seems assured.

So fai" there is no indication from R, J. Mason us to whether ho intends racing any of his team in the Winter Cup. The three horses lie lias entered aro a particularly strong Irio, and a_ suggessr.iou that any of them would face the starter would be the means of installing the selected horse as favourite. Ulonmiiw. list. i;ilb., has a good weight, but i<: is not as much by 81b. as was allotted Chortle some years' ago, and taken any »av at all- the lop weight seems well in. Take the case of Parisian Diamond. l;i:dcr a lighter wnle of weights he certainlv would not be placed within 71b. of, GloaiiiiiiK over a mile, nor would Viisnbond bo within a stone of the chamuioii. Then Mason has another strong HlriiiK in Afterglow, winner of llio Tara-n-iki and Kguiont Cups . and the iirf.it Northern and New Zealand St. Lw:i;rs. and runntr-up in the Great Northern Oaks anil 'J'rentliam bold Cup. Hpv uublic form is certainly better than that of Karoi yet tliero aro many who would-pin their faith to the latter in a iiii!i> race, and it is noticeable that tlio hnixlicapper only puts 31b. between the pair, ivaro is a Bigger mare than Afterglow and would bu more ssuitable to caiiv welter we.ght than would be the <;tii) winner. Jinny sportsmen incline to the idea that Mason- will- start one or more of hie charges, ae liad He not been ■Kumii to do so- he would have scratched tluuu -ere. this. -.The Kiccarton. mentor has previously-, won■ tlie race -with Bauk-

It- would seem as if the report re the i.widimt to (J.- Emerson has bten greatly BTaßK'eruteci, as the well-known- liorseinaii wre«ularly riding work.at Riccarloii. lie- leiegrapiied Mr. P. Soames, in answer to a tjticiy, that he would be .ahk-to ride.Battle array in the Waiter flip. • .'.- ■ ■ • , , S. Reid is going south to-morrow liigut to lido at-tlie UUnstciiurch Hunt Club meeiimr. One of. His mounts will be Comment in the open six furlongs. - In well-informed circles it is regarded as certain that the double-machine will auuin be in-operation on the racecourses in the near- luluri'.' • This being to, it mav bo a good thing if the racing clubs went into the nutrer of rearranging dieir nroirrammes somewhat. At the present time the open sprint event w uiUiillv the last race on the card. lh« writer -suHßesis that as the double is usiiallv on the Cup and Fljmg or the rstci-iT which correspund with, these events, it, would be a good idea to run the events named in nuccession. Also a further imniove.uicnt would be to have tlie siii-int event the first leg of the (limblo insleadof the last. This would do away with a large number of Iho eleventh-hour scratchings which at presm.t tiiko place. 'l'lid reason of the Vile scratehirißS is well known to anyhni'.v who cures to make inquiries, and is cenernllv due lo tho fact that the first K' of a' well-backed combination has b.'ftri defeated. Wore the sprint race to (k> run'first all the. horses would start, iin'l a similar state of affairs would proVvl in the second Ipk, a.s owners would not scratch lor a llioiisand-poniid ftveiit 'ailw all payments were made as easily as they du in. a two hundred pounds Tlie crack Sydney jockey lv. Bracken recenflv «triiek I rouble in Sydney, and was suspended'until September 1 for alloiviii" his'nioiint to cross anolliei , horse in tho Ilißh-Wiiisht Handicap at MoornAmongst the winners at the. Wngßi moetiiiK last mouth was Sir Maranui, who as his iiaiiie suggests, is by the latn D»n ' O']lrien's 'old favourite Maranui, witiix-r of (ho G?nilfioU! Cup- • ' ■ Tho Foxlon Uaciiijt Club i.i extendinx tlio freeiloni of its loosp-lmxee «ml oilier nviiilabh; fiu-ililies lo owners and Iranicv-: tiavelliiiß their horws via Foxtnn lo mill from meetings .while the. _ existing rnilwav anauK'-ments continue in furea.