NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 34, 4 November 1919, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

> By Glencoe. [ Tho New Zealand Cup Meeting will open ; at Riccarton on Saturday, when amongst ' other races to bo decided will bo the . big two-mile event, tho Stewards' Haudi- : cup, six furlongs, and the AVelcoino Stakes, four furlongs. Rose Pink, who has already won the At-hhuvst Cup twice, is again nominated i for this month's contest. I The Melbourne Cup, which is annually deoided on tho first Tuesday in Novem- [ her, will como up for decision this afteri noon. Tho public fancy is last year's winner Nightwatch, who nt Caulfiold , showed that ho was very well by running second to his stable companion Lucknow in tho Cup. Though he has a ' big increase in weight Nightwatch is [ such a proved stayer that he is suro to give a good account of himself in tho | big handicap at Flemington to-day. The r New Zealand-owned Surveyor will probably be allowed to tako his place in i the field, but though his success would i be popular it seems to bo too much to > hopofor, and both Richmond Main and Artilleryman appear certain to hold, him safe. Latest . accounts from Riccarton are most enthusiastic as to tho track work of tho New Zealand Cup fancy Gay Lad. Twice last week lio galloped m good style, and put up fast times. Tho consensus of opinion is that if he is - beaten it will if becauso lie was unable i to have a race before tho Cup meeting. : Somo sixteen yearlings bred at the ■ Waikanao Stud are to ho shipped to I livttelton early next week, and will bo 1 sold at tho Christoluivch sales on Thura- ; dav, November 13. Amongst the munc bei' are a half-sister to Weary Willie I and a half-sister lo Chakwana, both by : lloniform. ' There is a really good field of Hacks ' in Die Spring Plate at ilie C..T.C. Meet- [ ing, which opens on Saturday. Amongst 1 I ho number are Scasprite, Bonnetter, 'Vleethnm, Mobiihi, Acquittal, Bonnie ■ Heather, Lucid, Nightraider, Mouloa • Ivanova, and Falstafl'. 1!. J. Mason has not engaged Gloaming " in the Ulcctric Plate, w.f.a., four fur- , longs'at the C..1.C. Meeting, but Rossini . lias been entered. Another very prominent absentee is tho unbeaten two-year-old Humbug, i l'oalings of (he Waikanae Stud marcs this season are as follow:—Lovesick, b.e. 5 i-o Kilbrimev; Thame-, b.c. to Kilbroney; 1 Peace, b.c.'to Roniiorm; Pcronilla, b.f.

to Claronceux; Bebe, b.f. to Boniform; Murgarethe, b.c. to Boniform; Mistime, b.f. to Boniform; Lady Jean II (imp.), b.f. to Boniform; Desrina (imp.), b.f. to Boniform; Glen Helen, b.f, to Boniform; Snowlike, b.c. to Bezonian; IxulyStowurl, ci. to Solferino; Paphia, b.c. to Martian; Vicereine, br.c. to Boniform; Pcirene, b.f. to Boniform; Killena, b.f. to Sunny Lake; Rosyth, b.c. to Kilbroncy; Secret Link, b.f. to Boniform; Snow Waif, b.f. to Martian; Ribble, b.f. to Boniform; Philomel, b.c. to Boniform; tnnbird, b.f. to Boniform; Satisfaire, b.f. to Bohiform; Snowstcll, b.f. to Boniform; Khamsim, c.f. to Boniform; Bonny Helen, c.c. to Bezonian. A Pros Association message from Christchurch states that Bonnie Maid was scratched for all engagements at tho C.J.C. Meeting at 3.50 p.m. yesterday. The winner of the Cambridgeshire Stakes was given in the local papers as Bridgent (Syi'lad—Destination), but other New Zetland papers publish tho winner as Brigand, a five-year-old hurtc by Leiuberg from Plyte, owned by Mr. J. A. de Rothschild. Brigand did not race at tuo years old, and in six sUirU the following season ho did not win. season he won the Chesterfield Handicap, on the same dav My Dear won the Oaks,-with 6st. 121b., and followed it up at tho next Newmarket merii'ig bv carrying (Ist. ]21b., including a 101b! penally, and winning tho Stewards' Handicap,, which was won this year by His Majesty's Viceroy. He started in six other races without success. At tho Epsom meeting last June he won the Royal Stakes Handicap in a poor field, carrying 7st. 81b., but it was a six furlong race, which appeared to be his best distance. He is trained at Newmarket by D. Waugh. Diadem, second, has been a good friend to Lord d'Abcrnou. At two years old she won £UU in threo races, at three yen re old ,£4702 in the fame number of races, but the Ono Thousand Guineas was worth .£4150. This season she has won five racks up to September 15 worth 42(542. The Molynenx Plate, five furlongs, at Liverpool, being the best performance, when she carried 9st. 71b., easily beating a fair field by one and a half lengths. My Dear, third, was out of the early spring engagements owing to the death of Mr. A.- W. Cox, and has not yet won * race so far this season, but last season she won the Oaks and three other races worth .£5702, and her only two starts at two years old were wins, which included the Dewhurst Plato.