NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 196, 14 May 1920, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Tho first' acceptance for the Great Northern Hurdles. Great Northern Steeplechase, and Cornwall Handicap, together with general entries for the A.8.0. winter nicotine, close with the secretary, Mr. W, 8. Spencc, at 5 p.m. to-day. „,...,, • G Henderson is to ndo Waimai in tho i Renown Steeplechase at Riccarton to-mor-Mr. E. W. Alison withdrew Thrace from • tho Great Northern as a protest against the weights allotted the Australian gelding and in doing 60 forwarded a letter to the \M.C. Committee asking for an ex- • planation of the treatment his horso had Cinna," winner of the One Thousand' Guineas, is it• half-sister to the stallion/ Spearhead, which is now at the stud in Victoria, both being from Baroness la Plcclic.' Arrowsniith descends from-this fomily. . , „" , ' It is practioally certain that K. J. Mason will mako his usual trip to Australia this winter. His team will probably consist of four horses. The Manchester Cup, the next of tho mg English events, is to be decided on May 28. Tho Derby is to run on June 2 and the Oaks on .tune 4. Tho Dcmosthencs-Tete-a-Tete colt scoured for 1700 guineas by Sir Samuel Hordern at tho recent Randwick yearling sales is to race nB Dialogue. It transpires that tho new owner of Demosthenes' is Mr. P. Miller of the Kiora Stud Scone, the price paid for tho son of Desmond being 5000 guineas. Mr. Miller last year cave a similar amount for Magpie, one of the few horses that beat Desert Gold over ten furlongs. The thoroughbred stallion Persian Knight was destroyed in Australia a fortnight ago owing to Increased feebleness. Persian Knioht was a bay horse foaled in 1902, and" was by Persimmon from Perfect Dream, and therefore a' three-quarter brother to Charlemagne 11. As a siro Persian Knight failed to got anything abovo tho ordinary.