NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 198, 17 May 1920, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS

By Glencoe. Acceptances for the first day s events at the Wanganui Meeting close to-nigllt. The Wanganui Jocltcy Club will open its Winter Meeting on Thursday, when tho Wanganui Steeplechase, Century Huidlcu, and Connoily Handicap will be decided. Pitprop. winner of a double at the 11maru gathering last week, is an Loglishbred three-year-old by Newmarket from Pilbrow Lass. In each of his successes Pitprop was ridden by T. Metcalfe, the English horseman, formerly attached to tho Highden stables , / Onslaught went wrong in the suspensory ligament last week, and lie could not race at tho Eoyal Meeting on Saturday. Another Chokeboro representative, in Checkmate, had also to forfeit his engagements owing to having bruised one of his heels while working. ... (Strangles is visiting many stables in Riccarton and the southern trainers have been having an anxious time during tho last week. , , ~ It has been decided not to send Coalition cn to Duncdin, and the 1 atronus gelding will leave Riccarton to-day on his way to Auckland. His stable companion Seadown is to be returned to Trcntham. | A recent addition to the team controlled by V. Costcllo at Hastings is a rising two-year-old Ally, by Boniforin from horganatic. The lakt-named is the. dam of Manavapango, winner of tho Renown steeplechase on Saturday. . The coining two-year-old son of Maiuan and Bcbe, purchased by Mr. Greenwood for 525 guineas, when the Waikanne yearlings wero submitted for sale at fellington in January of tliis year, has had tho appellation of "Cupidon bestowed upon him. Oupldon is a full-brother to War talk and Dincolo, who the engaged at tlic Winter Meeting of the Dunedm .Tockey Club, are already at the scene of action. After doing the southern fixture, Trainer Hickey will bring his charges to Hastings, where they are tfl be trained in futuro. • . ~ . Since his creditable showing at l',gmont Xjochella has come into strong, demand for the Great Northern double, in wluch lie is nlceiy treated with 9st. 81b. and list. Lochella has not raced over country since he won the Grand National Steeplechase at-Riccarton last August. The stipendiary stewards who are actin under the Queensland Turf Club have laid down a rule with regard to overweight that will not, it is stated, bo departed from under any circumstance. • Tlicy have adopted' a .sliding scale, with 61b. as the maximum overweight, and then only In connection with horses that are handicapped between 6st. 711). and 6st. lain., for horses handicapped between 7st. and 7st. 71b. only 41b. will be allowed; between 7st. 71b. and 7st. 131b.: the limit is 31b.; and between Bst, and Bst. 21b. 21b. In the case of a horse handicapped a_boye. Bst. 2lb„ no overweight will be permitted. A Press Association message from bydney states that the New Zealand horse Master Jfouton fell in the Hurdle Race at the Tattersall's Club Meeting and is crippled and unlikely to race again.

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