NOTES,AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 16, 14 October 1919, Page 7

NOTES,AND COMMENTS

(By Glenooe.) The Masterton Meeting Mil be held oh Thursday and Saturday of this week. On each day a train , will leava Opaki at 6 p.m., and -will run right through to Lambtori Station. It is expected that Jockeys B. Deeley , «nd.H. Gray, together with R. J. Mason Md the racehorses Rossini, Afterglow, Karo, Taunaha, and' Golden Bubble, will leave Sydney on the Itiverin ft, which is expected to get away some time to-mor-row. • • . Tho Wellington-owned trotter Lieutenant, who has been an inmate of J. Bryces stables for some'time past, is ™returned to R." Hall, at Ellerslio. •t? il S ! i flmc 'd trainer iron several raced with the old gelding in and around Auckland. . . It las been stated that Scottish Knight is to join a Trentham stable, biit or in?i! n ? r ,y es ' cr< 'ay the writer was informed that there was no truth in the statement, and the four-year-old will continue -.r Coleman at EUerslie. Mr. W. R. Ivemball, of Masterton, contemplates returning with his team to tho .Dominion at the conclusion,of the racing at Flemington next month. ; Torfreda, the full-sister to Hymastra. Jias only recently recommenced' work &£ ■ Opaki, ,but the fact that 6he has been nominated for the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap would suggest that her trainer is satisfied that she will remain sound. For some timo past there have been ■ rumours that nil was not as well with -the imported Gay Lnd as it might bo. However, the s fact that he has bcon freely nominated for the vwious events at the New. Zealand Cup Meeting proves that there can be little wrong with,the son of Cellini, and, all going well in the .meantime, there is little doubt that he , will be on hand to. contest tho New Zealand Cup, for w.hicib race ho has been a firm favourite for some considerable , time. It is not often that one finds tv horse . that has been successful in steeplechases entered for a race like the Canterbury Cup, but Silenus has been accorded that; honour. On anything iho has yet done, the Bracelet and Steeplechase performer , will have to improve considerably to have a chanco of success in tho longest flat race in the Dominion. • Apparently there is little chanoe of Mai aim and Hetaua contesting the New .Zealand Cup for they aTe not entered for the Auckland Cup, and the form of the pair up to the present certainly suggests that they would do better in sprint events than over a distance of ground/ It is interesting to note that R. J. Mason has engaged Gloaming and Afterglow, but not Karo, in the Canterbury Cup." The latter, however, has been entered for all the middlo-distauce handicaps. Brackenfield, whom it will be remembered made a runaway race of the Avonhead Handicap at Riccarton in August, is in Tegular work at Blenheim. Ho lias been accorded a nomination in the,principal sprint ovonts at the C.J.C. Cup Meeting. The postponed spring meeting of the Ashburton Racing Club will be held on Thursday and Friday. The Cup favourite, Gay Lad, is to be seen out in the principal ovont, and as tho. opposition team is not very strong he will ng doubt have plenty _of admirers. His owner, Mr. J. C. Grigg, ig a prominent supporter of thp_ Ashburton Club. Affectation, who has been a much-dis-cussed New Zealand Cup candidate since Ibis victory in the Wanganui Guineas, will be a runner in the principal event at Opaki on Thursday, and as the field is not by any means a strong one the Kilbrony colt may start favour'to. Tho stakes offered by the Waipukurau Jockey Club have been inoreased from ,£ll4O to JGI-itO. 0. Carmont is now attached to Mr. E. Alison's stablo at Auckland. '■ The colt by Absurd—Lady Eta, in J. Williamson's charge at Ellersie, has had the name of Irish Knight claimed for him. Desert Gold has beon nominated for • the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap", but Gloaming's name ia missing from the . event. ' ■ , ... At Eamarama, the Messrs, Eynch's mares Sweet Alice and Tripoli have foaled. the former a filly and the latter a colt, both to Poloa. The former will be mated this season with Thurnham and the latter with Lucullus. • ' ■ . Privato advico from Australia states that H. Gray has accopted an engagement to ride Dunedin in tho A.R.C. Welcome Stakes, Humbug, whiohi hag now won twice in two starts, gives promise of turning out something above tho ordinary, and should