NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 7, 3 October 1919, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By Glencoe.)

Entries for the principal events ill the Auckland Itacing Club's Spring and Summer Meetings-close to-nignt. The Spring Meeting of tho Napier Par!;. .liacing Club will |je held- to-mor-row. • . The brood mare Light, dnm Gloaming, recently produced it full brother to the champion.; Her owner and breeder is considering .sending the. vou.'igster to tho Dominion lo mature. The stock of The Welkin are notorious for racing early, but Gloaming was not produced until he was it tluve-year-oldj and ho then enrried all before him. When Gloaming beat Wolaroi in the Spring Stakes at Jtosehill the latter was a better favourite. The pair jumped oil' well, and were locked together passing the seven, six, Jive, four, thrao, two, and one furlongs. Over the final 100 yards Deeley .shot 3 tho New Zealander ahead, and he won by a length. The crowd gave the winner a good receptjon. When Gloaming was sent to Pandwick last spring thero uceompanicd lvini a maiden called Molvncaux (Danube—Pcrle D'Or), that used to gallop with the champion, but subsequently went wrong and wa-i sold for a modest sum to tlio Hastings trainer, J. M. Cameron. The latter got the uridine sound and raced him a few times in Melbourne, but withoui success. At the ?iionrefMd Meeting on September 22 .Molvncaux was produced in the second division of tho Maiden and was backed from a long price to rf very short ; one. He won very comfortably, and now that lie lias struc); foVm he should soon score again. •When llm last mail left Sydney Hi? Comedy King—Cross Battery colt Artilleryman was favourite for the A.J.C. Derby, to be run ou Saturday. Artilleryman finished third to Elfacre and Golden Bubble in the Kosehill Guineas after getting a bad passage. The New Zealand jockey Slan. Paid was successful on Kidman in the Brush Steeples mt Minton on September 111. Jieid had an exasperating run of illfortune on l.iunroy, and out of s'x starts he won one and was placed second five times. Elfacre, who is one of the fancied division for the A.J.C. Derby, is, lika Artilleryman, from a New Zealand-bred mare. His dam, I.Srwifeh, came from Karamu, and is by Birkenhead from AVitehet, by Sir Lanncelot from Elllock, by Nordenfeldt. G. Mnrray-Aynslc-y has decided to take Warlove, Wardancer. Nantville, and Golden Mail to the Duncdi;; Spring Meeting. JL'hey leave ror Wingatui on Monday next. Th» Cliokebore team wii| go south at tho saino time. Inculdec) in the lot trained by the Cutts brothers is tho' two-year-old Winter Wind, who is to contest the M'Lean Stakes. A 1 =o lioyal Stag and Miss Mimic, who will vacC in the JJunedm C-inineas. Glooming is. gradually asci-nding to a placo among the most "important stake earners. His total is now :n the neighbourhood of ,£12,503, and it is only a question of health for him to substantially increase it within the next few weeks. Gloaming has won fourteen races oof ot' seventeen stf'ts. Tho Champion Plate, the mile ar.d a quarter weigbt-for-age event at. the Sprine meeting of the Wellington Pacing Club, has provided some interesting contests in the. past, and everything points' to another fine' race next month. The presence of Desert Gold and Gloaming will be ciuile sufficient to ensure success, but with Affectation, Warplane, lietaua, Starland and Motuihi engaged as well, tho race should serve as a dress rtfiearsnl for the New Zealand Dcrbv.