THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 187, 4 May 1920, Page 8

THE TURF

v — NOTES AND COMMENTS (By Glencob.) Owners are reminded that entries for tho Otakl Maori Racing Club s Winter Meeting close on Friday. . „, . Handicaps for the Wanganui Steeplechase and Century Hurdles are due on Saturday. , ■-■._ , _ Acceptances for the Canterbury 7ockey Club's Royal Meeting are due to-morrow _ ' The autumn meeting of the Marlborough # Racing Club will be held at Blenheim today and to-morrow. The injury which caused the retirement.of Snsanof from the Hawkc's Bay ami Ormond Memorial Cups was traced to the shoulder, arid it is. not thought to be very serious, so that there is a chance of tho champion sou of Martian being sent south > to measure strides with Amythas and Ar.rowsmith in the Marlborough Stakes at Riocarton this month. / During the season just ending the Walkanac sire Bczonlan was represented by six winning two-year-olds, viz., Blackmail, Weary Willie, La Pais, Fortune Teller, Pure Laiiness, and Rouen. The total winnings of the youngsters was £3490. During the progress of the Hawke s Bay Meeting, some thirteen additional members of the Jockeys' Association- roeigned ' from that body. ' Amongst the runners in the Maiden Kaco at the Marlborough Meeting to-day is tho two-year-old Martian filly Maritja, who showed a lot of pace in her only start at Trentham. ' : , , Tho Wellington-owned Mannish, Lady P"nzn .Coalition, Arlington, and fieadown; have been entered for tho principal jumping events at the Dunediu Jockey Clubs Winter Meeting, to be held, in June. Other North Island horses engaged are All Talk, Foeman. Biavolo. Gang Awa', Gackwar,; Luke, Master Webster, Master StroWau, Tirau, and Wirokino. The Napier Cup winner, Battle Song, has been schooled over fences at Trentham, and he has pleased his owner by the way he has taken to the jumping business, 110 has now been -withdrawn from tho sale list. ' ' - Mr. 0. L. Stead has taken up his residence at Cambridge, but so far it is not known whether he intends having hw horses trained in that district.. If Ainytbns, Arrowsmith. Silver Link, Karo and Sasanof go. to the post for th» Marlborough Stakes, to ,bo run over a- milo at the C.J.C. Royal Meeting, southerners should witness the most exciting race or the season. . Paragon, who filled third place in tho Two Thousand Guineas, has an interest for New Zealanders. He is a half-brother to Panacea, the dam of Panmure and lievnlenta, who were brought to the Dominion by G. Price. Risingham, which has been showing fairly good form on the flat of late, has been nominated for the hack hurdle events at the Wanganui Meeting, but is also in the two principal flat events at the fixture. The competition for the yearlings sent from New Zealand by Mr. T. H. Lowry to tho New South Wales sales was of a very spirited character.. The brown colt , by Demosthenes from Tetc-a-Tcte was knocked down to the Randwick trainer, T. F. Scully (acting for Sir Samuel Hordern), for 17O0gns. - , the highest price paid for any* ( yearling at tills year's Eales. Mr. C. L. Mccdonnld, of Victoria, cave 1300gnB. for Bobrikofl's brother (Finland-Gossip). Tho bly colt by Finland from the Hotchk'6B mare All's Well found a lot'of keen men bidding, and the youngster fell to the bid of the Randwick trainer. H. J. Robinson. The chestnut colt by Finland from tho , Stepniak mare The Haquc was voted plain but that did not stand in the way of Mr.' F. Musgravc of Victoria, putting In the'concluding bid of lOOOgns., at which prico ; he secured the youngstei.