NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 59, 3 December 1920, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dt Gkbncoe. Tho Woodville Meeting will take place on Wednesday and Thursday neit. Nominations for all events at the Stratford Meeting, to bo held on January 1 and 3, close on Tuesday, December 7. at 9 p.m. • Acceptances for the Auckland Cup ana Hallway Handicap, also general entries, close to-night. , Beloved, winner of. the Apprentices Raco at Feilding on Tuesday, . went through the whole of last season without snoring a win, though sho started on sixteen occasions. The Gazeley mare, who is owned by Mr. Thomas Bevan, of Manakau, seems more solid now. and though she was raised 141b. for her llrst success at Feilding blio again beat all but Borealis. L. Morris rode hpr in behind the leaders on Wednesday, and 6he shaped as well there as when out in front. She looks like doing further scrvico for her owner. When Gloaming won tho FcUding Stakes and Oroua Stakes it was Mr. G. D. Greenwood's first success in each event. It would appear that Tenterfleld doei not always do hi* best in public. On the day that lie won the 0.J.0. Metropolitan Handicap it would have taken a tlrEt-clasn performer to beat the son of Sea Prince. but. sinco then his public form has been very poor. An action was brought before Mr. 1!. 0. Cuttcn, S.M., in the Auckland Magistrate's Court, by the New Zealand .lockevs Association tMr. A. E. Skolton) to recover from a number of jockeys a pcrccniaguof the fees earned by them. Mr. fikelton said a number of similar oaseß had previously been adjourned, and hearing was accordingly set down for the same date, December 7, when a test case will be' submitted to the Court,

Red Hibbon will not be raced at Woodvillc, but she will be taken to Auckland and given a, special preparation for ths Cup.

Bonny Maid has been withdrawn from the Auckland Cup, which probably mvaiu that she will be seen out at tho llannwatu Meeting. Mr. W. Higginß has arranged lor nm English horse* to bo sent out to New Zealand; and they are to make tbc trip in charge of J. Driscoll, who liqb brought several horses to this country. The Trentlmm jockey, Con Reed, rode the winner of both scurry events at Fending. In each instance his buccc6s was largely due to his agility at the barrier, and after getting his mounts out first he was not headed. B. Deeley, who has not had much success of late, was much in tho limelight at Fcilding, where Be rode five winners, lfis successes were gained on Gloamine. twice, and Jutland. Chimera, and Bed Ribbon. / 11. Young was riding at the South Canterbury Jockey Club's Meeting on Thursday last, but he was prevented, on aocount of ill-health, from fulfilling any engagements on the concluding day. At Hiccarton J. M'Combs has Pyjama In Commission again. Ho looks well as the result of his spell, following on an operation for wind troubles.