THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 253, 20 July 1921, Page 6

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS By Gmscos. Acceptances for the whole of the first day’s events at the Gisborne meeting close on Friday next. The South Canterbury Hunt Club’s meeting will be held on the AVashdyke racecourse on Saturday. Acceptances for the three big events at the C.J.C. Grand National meeting close on Friday. Cantoris, runner-up to Hallowvonia in the Crofton Handicap at Trenthani, » engaged in the Levels Hack Handicap, six furlongs, at the South Canterbury Hunt Club meeting on Saturday. Ho in in with the minimum impost, and will be ridden by R. Alanson. A. Oliver, who is at present controlling two stables at A.wapuni, was present on the first day of the Trentliam meeting, but ho returned home the same evening, and though offered some tiding on Saturday, he had io decline, ns his large team required his attention. After the two hard races Strategy had at Trentliam, it will occasion no surprise if Air. A. M'Donald decides <o rely upon his /other three-year-old, Prine* Martian, for the AVinter Cup. Aloutoa Camp, who is now owned at Featherston, ran badly in his AVellington engagements, and evidently he is a long way from his form of last season, when he filled a place several times, though ho did not score.

Kauri King, who has been working at Trentham along with the Parliamentary Handicap winner, Arch Salute, is already one of tho fancied division fair the Grand National Hurdles, a race 11M won three years ago, when he carried lflst. 11b., against a stone more he will be compelled to carry next month. The matter of restricting apprentices from using a whip until they have ridden twenty winners, did not find much favour with the members of the Racing Conference. As one delegate remarked: ".Some of them will not ride twenty winners in. a lifetime.” Mr. Campion has leased Desire to Air. J Fryer, the well-known Hawera ownertrainer. Tho son of Advance ran well in some of his recent races over the small sticks, and should pick up a race or two next season. Coalition’s win in the AA T elington Steeplechase on Saturday brought his ¥ winnings for the season up to Afr. R. Acton Adams left for Auckland by the Alain Trunk express yesterday. He is on a. business visit, and he does not expect .to be able to get back in time for the National meeting, where his colours will be carried by Miss Muriel in the AVinter Cup. Rational is in regular work at Hawera, and he will probably have his first run in the AVanganui Guineas in September. It is expected that the circular course at AVanganui will suit the Absurd gelding .'better than the Avondale course would. Income was tried over a mile on Saturday but he did not shape well, and i« an ’unlikely starter in the AVinter (.up. Too much notice should not be taken of bis failure last week, as he got a very bad bump at the half-mile post, and in going back he interfered with Strategy. Jockeys O. M’Arten, C. Reed, B. H. Atorris, and D. Copestake are leaving for Gisborne on Thursday next to fulfil riding engagements at next week’s meeting. The owner of Volo thinks his hors® is badly handicapped in the AVinter Cup and the bay gelding is not likely , to be sent south. Owing to the heavy state of the tracks the idea of schooling him over hurdles has been abandoned for the present. After riding at the AVellington meeting last week, Sid Reed hastened back to Hawera to attend to his team of rising three-year-olds and. yearlings. He will probablv race the maidens Danger Zone, Cold Steel, and Still Sea at some of the hunt club meetings early in the spring. A Press Association cable message states that the acceptances for the Australian Hurdle Race include Kilowat, anct those for the Steeplechase Forward Lady.