NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 11, 8 October 1919, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By Glencoe.)

Acceptances for the Ashburton Meeting close to-night at 5 o'clock. Entries for the Trial Plate and Maiden Hack Handicap are due at the same hour. _ Acceptances for tho ifasterton Meeting close on Friday night. Tho AJ.C. Sleeting will be continued to-day'when the Craven Plate ,will lie run. Gloaming is engaged and will no doubt be strongly supported. The Horowheiiua Meeting will tako place at Levin to-day. Visitors from Wellington can travel by the Now Plymouth express, which leaves Thorndon at 8.20 a.m., and will'arrive .at Levin In plenty, of time for the first race. Tho Sfanaka'u Hack Hurdles, run at 11.30 a.m., Is the first, raw. E-ecent form points to Pnwerewero and, Combustion, lwth of whom have been racing well of late. The 'form of the former at Marton should give him an advantage over the other runners. With War Star nn unlikely starter in the Hack SVclter Handicap, the event may go to the top-weight, B.ailand. but Glentour, with a null of 71b. in the race, must ho very dangerous. , There is a field of 1G in the Scurry, but they are anything but a good lot, Haeremoaha has been placed several times and Demndes is a smart galloper in private, but unfortunately sho is inclined to be flighty at the barrier. There is likely to be a field of seven in the Cup. Rose Pink has n big weight and so has Kilrush, nnd if the going is on tho soft side it will be no surprise •> to find them both well beaten. Detroit

likes the soft going; -nna'-'fto And Moutoa Ivanova will be well in the market, but the abaoluto favourite may be War Star, who, despito the fact that she has never won a race, is sure to see a short prico to-day. She is to bo ridden by If. S. Bagby, which means that a few pounds overweight will have lo lie earned.

On her form at Otaki Beloved (Tst. 131b.) may carry most support in the back sprint event, and for the M'Donald Memorial Bonny Briar niay see a very short price in tho event of War Star being successful in the Cup. Sweet Tipperary is the best performed of those engaged in the Open Welter Handicap, and for the concluding event Kcstful and Hautawa read very well. Splendid acceptances have been received for tho Hawke's Bay Meeting. Con won so easily at Napier after getting badly left that he is sure of plenty of admirers to-day. Early Dawn is another candidate that will be well backed in whichever race he starts in.' The two New Zealand Cup candidates, Athens II and.Lovematch, should both bs:prominent in the Spring Handicap, as after getting bad passages at Napier the oair finished'.very fast. Humbug will have to put up a slb. penalty in the Hastings Stakes,..but this is not likely to effect the Absurd colt, who will be all the better for the race he had on Saturday.

While galloping at Hastings yesterday Acacia, tho two-year-old full-sister to Desert Gold, fell and brolco her shoulder. She has been put in slings . by Vet. Brodie, and an effort is being made to save her for breeding purposes. It is a most severe loss to her owner, Mr. T. H. Lowry,. as the filly was reported, to be a great galloper and showed more promise at this age than did. her redoubtable sister.

"The surprise victory registered by the Australian importation, Some Boy, in his initial display in Maoriland in tho colours of his new owner, Mr. E. W. Alison, juii., at Avondale on Wednesday last (comments "Phaeton" in the Auckland 'Herald'),' caught many keen heads napping, and there is also some reason to accept tho view that even the immediate connections of the 'bay son of. Cyrus and The Tart entertained small hopes of seeing him gallop first past the judge. The fact that Some ' Boy bad accomplished very little work since his arrival at Ellerslie, consequent on a slight mishap that befell him while being landed from the Port Melbourne pn September 8, had the effect of causing him to run up on the. bulky s : de, and the size of his middlepiece when be paraded in the birdcage ot Avondale on Wednesday last, it must be.said, seemed quite sufficient to cause his chance of seeing out.what promised ti) be a.solidly-run nine furlongs doubtful.' It really excited very little comment when the. numbers on the total'sator dials therefore revealed that in a field of V there were only one of the contestants carrying less money than the Australian importation. If. require? but a few lines to relate the history of the Taee, for Some Boy early worked his way into the lead, and there lie remained throughout the race. When the favourite, Gold Kip, cimie along with a stiff challenge in the straight, excited cries- were heard, 'The chestnut's got him!' This was not, however, fulfilled. Some Boy proved to be equal to all demands, mid. finishing up his tn.sk with surprising dash, he won in fine stylo by a length and 1 a quarter. Wonderment was reflected on many faces, as the clerk: of the course Tallop'-d down, to bring in Some. Boy and h : s rider, S. Henderson, and the remark, 'Yon never can tell till the number?, go up,' it is hardly necessary to add, was heard in many ounrters. The victory of Sn'ue Boy is entitled to me entered un with the most gnrminn sumrifeo associated with the Auckland turf, and it c tainly furnishes one of the most strikinj.: and interesting illustrations of the unexpected happening in our racing that has been recorded for a considerable time past."