THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 303, 18 September 1919, Page 7

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By Glencoe.)

The spring meeting of the Otaki Racinu Club will opi-n on Saturday, and will be concluded on Monday next. The iirst event each day will start at 11.30 a.m. Owners are reminded that acceptances for the first day's handicaps at the Wawranui meeting close to-morrow night at R o'clock. The well-known jockey P. Brady is now training at Ellerslie, where ho has the useful Ohinewnirua under his care. Tho , Ashburton Racing Club hns received permission from the president of the Racing Conference to hold i:s ndiourned spring meeting on October 16 and 17. Nominations for the Hcrowhenna meeting close ; to-night at 8 o'clock. Entries for the Napier, Hawke's Bay, and.Dnnedin meetings close on Friday next. The local owner Mr. H. Whitney will send Rose Pink anil one or two others of his team to Dur.edin after • the Otaki moDting.' Mr. E. J. Hornby, eecretary of,the Marlboroush Racing Club, has gone' on n health-seeking. trip to San Francisco. He'expects to be away about three months.' - The clearing sale of Mr. G. F. Moore's Bushv Park brood mares, • which _ was postponed in July owing to the railway out. will be lield at Wanganui .next week, on the dav- between the races. • That good mare Warstep is to be mated with Mr. G. 'I. Stead's imported etnllion 'Nassau this season, in the hope that the result will be a colt of similar class to Surveyor. A North Island owner has recently been inquiring as to the possibility of buying Fleetham. - Should a deal eventuate, the imported ■ horse will take "up stud duties. ' ■ ■ Tho New Zealand team in Australia will net another outing at Rosehill on Saturday.. when amongst the races to be decided ie the Rosehill Guineas', of nine furlongs. Tho elder, division can race in the Spring Stakes, weight-for-age, one mile. At Awapuni T. George has again been Having trouble with Orleans, who has developsd lameness, and will require a spelL. . ."' •

W. Rayner has an Absurd colt in work at Wanganui that the track watchers havo a lot of time for. The youngsterwill race as Listowel, and will be seen out at the Wanganui meeting. An .Invercargill buyer was recently after the iocally-owned Risinghaui, but eo the eon of Rnkeby is still at TrenIham. As was only to be expected, the acceptances for the Otaki meeting ure on the small side. This proves that racing clubs are dependent on tho Railway Department for transport, and owners do not relish sending their teams to. a meeting by road. The Marton Club, was very fortunate, inasmuch as it was the iirst to try .the experiment of racing without a train service. Owners ' s«ye it one trial, nnd. when their horses did not do well they closed up, and other clubs are now suffering. .. ■ ■ T. Clark, who has. recently returned from active service, is now acting as private .trainer to Mr. D. Barrett, of Feildinir, and has Idle Talk tinder his care. Owing to the inability, of Mr. R. B. Lusk to attend the ''Wanganui meeting, the -position of judge is to be filled by Mr. J. Cameron. - . .The Uorowheuiia Cup, to be r'uii next month, will be worth'.£2so. The club is giving ,£1001) in stn'kes for its one-day meetinir. ■ - ... The .Great Autumn Handicap winner Punka is doing useful work at Iticcarton. but .she is not likely.to be asked to race'-,until the return from England of her owuer.-Mr. J. B. Reid. , . ■ Bright. Night,., ■ who,. .• defeated _. Golden Bubble ; in. the' Novice, Handicap, at Raridwick on Saturday, and was bred by Mr. E. J. Watt; is now owned by Mrs, C. Ltiinley Hill. He is a son of Wolawa and Lα Notte, ■therefore a, half-brother to such great horses /as Nochiiform, Nightfall, and Midnight Sun. • Scornful, the four-year-old half-brother (by Bonn) G'.cri/ to Snuli, i»- uaid to be training on well at Caulh'eld; and he is ticked off to" win a race at an early date for Mr.W. 11; Kemball. It is not, liow.cyer, suggested'that Scornful is anything above the moderate standard. S. l Henderson ;is lucky with rides secured nt the last minute. At the National Meeting ho" got the ride on Lochella practically on the eve of- the meeting, and at Dannevirke on Wednesday he only secured'thb mount on Bollin, who won the big steeplechase, through the rider previously engaged being late turning up. ■■■:,'■ While riding- Oskaig 'in the Brush Steeplechase at Snndown Park, J. N. M'Gregor suffered another ' fall, but escaped with nothing more than a shaking. ■ M'Gregor has the record of having- steered the winner in four of the six races in which he has played a part this season.-