NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 12, 28 July 1919, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By Glencoe.) The Manawatu Hunt Club's race meeting will be held on the Awapum Racecourse on v Wednesday next. By the Mokoia, which sailed for Napier and Qisborne on Saturday, the racehorses Vagabond, Torps, Woodlark, Mandrake, Carlysian, Happy Valley, Guanaco, Orawia, Hytlnead, and Tieki, who have been detained here since the Wellington Meeting, were home. A. Shearsby. with Sleight-of-Hand, Reformation, and Miramar, arrived at W ellin»ton on Friday, and left for the south on Saturday. Tho trip from Palmerston North to Wellington ocpupied five days. Mr. Lance Wood has decided to be represented at the C.J.C. Meeting by Sonnino and Risingham. A. Reed will ride the pair in their engagements at Riccarton. ... Tirana as still at Trentham awaiting an opportunity to be shipped to New TlyAccommodation has been booked for Paraoa, Gold Kip, Sir Agnes, and Rangi To Aroha by Tuesday's southern boat. Since the Wellington Meeting Gold Kip has been physicked and given days spell. He has freshened up u lot, and is again galloping very freely on the tracks. The well-bred Blighty (KilbroneyArmilla) has been sola to Mr. J. boring Johnston, and will this coming season be mated with the imported Panmure. Blightv was not a success on the .race track, but\ the blood is there, and it may make itself apparent' later on. . Coalition will be the'sole representative of the Endeavour Lodge stables at the coming Riccarton Meeting. He is to go south on Tuesday next in charge of J W. Lowe. On Thursday last the Wanganui Steeplechase winner was galloped a mile and went well. After racing at Trenthain Matty was given a few days' let up, but she is again in work, and will be racing at the early spring meetings. A recent addition to J. Ayress team, which now numbers twelve horses is a rising two-year-old colt by Boniform, from the dual Manawatu Cup winner Merrevonia. A youngster that is attracting favourable "attention at Trentham is a_two-year-old gelding by Treadmill from Rene. The youngsfer greatly, resembles his dam, but is built on bigger lines. Taken collectively the Trentham stables 6eem to have stronger and better juvenile teams for the coming season than at any previous time. The five in H. Telford's stables are as attractive a lot as will be found in any single establishment. . , After a 6pell of some months the rising three-year-olds Motnihi and Solfanella are again in work at Trentham. The former ITna still a scratchy style of going, but his speed is undoubted as ( was evidented by his showing in the Great Northern Champagne Stakes, in which, jiftnr getiimj oil badly, he soon cleared to the front, and it was only in the last few strides that the high-class Affectation wore him down. • Solfanefla has a doubtful-looking joint, but if he goes on the right way he is the sort of horse that may win a good class snrint race. At the present time ,T. W. T/iwe has fourteen horses in work for the Riddiford Bros,, and several youngsters have yet to bo handled.

Esnerance. lvlio lias boon spollinc sinco the Otaki Meeting, is again unionist 'be active workers presided over by •C. Pritchard at Trentham.

Tho two-year-old American Beauty in still at Trentham under tho care of Mr. Ebb Simpson. She and her stable companion Swanee Hirer are being indulged in light tasks on tho roads. His injured lee; baring become sound. Prince Delaware has again been placed in work by IT. Kingan at Trentham.