NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 257, 24 July 1920, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Bx Giencoe. ■, Trainers and" jockeys should noto that this is licensing time, and applications to rido and train during the new season should bo forwarded to the different district committees at once. A Wellington owner was negotiating recently for tho purohase of All Over, but a deal wns not made. The son of Ail Red is nicely handicapped in tho Grana National Hurdles. ' It is not likely that any of the Stead team will be sent to Sydney for the A.J.C. Derby meeting but R. J. Mason will take a tuam,. though whether ho will. have a Derby candidate is another matter. In Sydney Tfessady Queen is the early fav* ourito for the classic, and if R. J. Mason does not' want B. Deeley for one of his team, the Aucklander will bo oflered the mount on Treßsady. Queen, on whom no has already been successful. _ Tort Askaig,. by Wallace, who is one of Mr. T. M'Grath's Oaulfleld team, recorded his third successive win when he won the Steeplechasers' Flat Race ■ at Flomington. Ho started favourito at Flomington. • Captain Ral Parr, one of the joint owners of Paul Jones. ,tho Kentucky Derby winner, presented tho jockey. E, Rice, with £1000. , , Tho Enelish sire Buckwheat, who has a likely representative at Trentham, had a winning four-year-old at Manchester on May 26. when Eniskeen won the Mark l'ricc Welter Handicap, which was worth £571 to tho winner. ' ■ Though he failed in the Plemington National Hurdles, Bright Plume subsequently won tho Doutta Falla Hurdles, in which he was followed homo by the National winner. Sandnle. Bright, Plume was a goon favourite, but Sandulo was again the outsider of the field. •The successes of Checkmate and Nisthtraidor at the South Canterbury Hunt Club Meeting on Thursday, will now bring the winnings of Sir George Clifford for tne

presont season to £10.146. -but it does not niter bis position on the winning list, which is third, bohinil Mr. W. K. Kemonii and Mr. F. S. Easton. Ono of tho most prominent, high-priced failures of recent times is tho'-Australian-bred Spanner, who coat his owner, some MOOgns., but up to tho Dresont , 'h.is only won in stakes £125. The son of Tho Nut has been solded since ho last raced, and as ho iB a comparatively young horse he inay yet como good. Sir Fisher has failed to stand a proparation, and is not to bo persevered with further. Demos is now tho only active member of M. Hurley's Awapuni team. 6. Prico is keepine Hurry, ITp going at' •Awapuni, and the black. gelding is to be a runner in tho Winter Cup at Riecarton. WarplanoAvho gave great promiso as a, two-year-old, but failed to train on, has again joined the. aotive brigade at Awapuni. , ■ • ■