NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 306, 20 September 1921, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

By Glencoe. L. Wilson, with seven horses, reached Wanganui from Hastings on Saturday. F. Cress, with Hyginas and Ben Bolt, left Hastings for Wanganui yesterday. There will be plenty of racing throughout the Dominion this week. On Thursday and Saturday tho Wanganui Club will race, tho Ashburton meeting will bo held on Friday and Saturday, and on the latter day tho Avoudalo meeting opens. After galloping at Riccartou on Thursday, Onslaught pulled up lame, but the trouble is evidently not of a serwas nature, as he is an acceptor at Ashburton. . . Collision/ winner of tho Second Division Handicap at Rosehill on Saturday, is ono of R.’ J. Mason’s team. Ho is a chestnut half-brother to Kilrush, and Mason has always thought rather higaly of him. Perfect Day, winner of the JelJicoe Handicap at ths Pakurnuga Bunt Club meeting on Saturday, was also engaged in tho Avondale Cup, but did not accept on Friday, which suggests that the form in tho big event on Saturday was a surprise to his trainer. In tho past the question of bandages on. horses has always betm a muchdiscussed one, and the Donovan incident will give it fresh lifo. It should be remembered that tho rules in Sydney aro framed to giva'wery protection to life and limb, and on this account sportsmen will as a whole he on the side of the Australian Jockey Club officials. It is quite easy to estimate the awful results in a big field, were a bandime to come off through being imperfectly tied. In this country it is a common thing to sew the bandages on, and this certainly makes for greater safety. Tho form of Furious m -ho Rosohill Guineas, nine furlongs, on Saturday, shows that last season’s .crack two-year-old j 9 again at her best, and she looks like bring the hardest the New Zealand division will encounter in the A.J.U. Derby- , . „ According to tho " A «- l T a ’ a ® ,aD A ln^ o attack of influenza contracted by Gloaming at Randwick was of a severe type, a throat trouble being also included in tho ailment.- The opinion is express'd that Tho Welkin gelding may not be able to race again for some rime, perhaps not for months. Should this statement of Gloaming’s condition prove to be correct, It will Im very unfortunate for his record, for with reasonable luck Reveval thousands would probably have teen added to his stake-winning record n , a result of his efforts at tho A. JA. spring meeting. In the Kiewa Hurdle Race, decided at Caulfield on September 3. the three placed horses were respectively tho produce of Now Zealand-bred mares. Happy King, ths winner, is out. of Gladsome; Bost Steel, the runner-up, is out of Alary Seaton; while Silent Way, who finished third, is out of Goldon May. When a bill for £IG for whisky for sick horses was passed at the Court o Common Council, London, a member remarked that it was a good thing Iterses did not smoke cigars.

David (by Baverstock), who was sold when a yearling for .£42, has so far won ,£10.135 10s. in stokes, and matters look bright for a further marked addition to his winning record before long. Quarrelsome was lame behind after doing a working gallop with Sunny Loch nt Riccarton on Thursday. It is very bad luck for J. M'Combe to lose tho Martian gelding’s services just at tho beginning of the season, ns he was showing signs of being more than useful. The gelding’s hip on the near side appeals to be down. On ami after November 1, according to a now Rule of Racing passed nt the last I'.iinmii sitting of tho Racing Conference, tho system of appointing racecourse inspectors will b’ made by tho Stipendiary Stewards’ Committee. A Press Association messajm from Sydney states that lord Martian has been scratched for all his Jockey Club and Victorian engagements. REHANDICAPS FOR AVONDALE. The following rehandicaps have been, declared by Mr. 11. Coyle for the Avondale meeting:— HACK AND HUNTERS’ STEEPLECHASE—Grand Canyon, 9st. 101 b. PLYING HANDICAP—RationaI, Bst. 121 b. HENDERSON HANDICAP—Perfect Dire. fist. 31b. SWASON WELTER HANDICAP—Navanti, Bst. l()Ib.