NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 135, 12 June 1929, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(BY "VEDETTE.")

RACING .FIXTURES.

June 14, 15—Napier Paris B.C. Juno 20, 22—South Canterbury J.C. Juno 21, i'i— Hawkea Bay I.e. June 29—Waverley K.C. June 29—Ashburtou County B.C. July 10. 11. 13-Wellington K.C. July 25—Walmate District Hunt Club. July 25, 27—Gisborne K.C. July 27—South Canterbury Bunt Club.

Reminders. Entries -for classic events of- the Wellington, Manawatu, Canterbury, Auckland, JJunedin, and many other New Zealand clubs close on Friday. ..'.-■■'. Entries for the Wellington Steeplechase Meeting are due on Monday, at 9 p.m. King's Cup Entry Day. There has been a considerable amount of inquiry; concerning the date of closing of entries for the King's Cup, the race of the year in Australia, in which New' Zealand probably will be represented by the Australian-bred but Dominion-reared and trained' Aussie. The entry day is Bth. July, and the race 'will be decided in.August. /■. . .Trentham Horses for Napier. Trentham stables willbe represented at Napier Park this week by Tresham and Tourist, and the pair left by train to-day. Tresham has done well since racing at Otaki, and should be in good order for the: hurdle events in Hawkes Bay. Tourist Las been entered for hack events and a gentleman rider's race on the second day. He was working well prior to the Otaki Meeting. ."'." ; ' . •, ■ . Wellington Cup Dates. _ The committee of the Wellington Racing L Club has applied for an amended set of dates for its Cup Meeting next January. The original application was for' 20th, 22hd, and 25th January, or. Monday, WedBesday, and Saturday, the Wednesday being the public holiday. It is now proposed to-race on Saturday, Monday, and Wednesday,- 18th; 20th, and 22nd January. The amended dates appear much more satisfactory, for they mean much less.waste.time for owners and trainers, while the holiday crowd on the concluding .day will have the benefit of the two earlier days' form. - ~i ■.. ..'■.:■ .-.: ■

Napier Park Acceptances. The fields have dwindled down very considerably for the Napier Park Meeting on Friday. With only five left in the Steeplechase, the field is of one-dividend dimenKons, with little.; margin for error. Ballyfarnon .looks sure to be a good favour-, ite.: ' The Ahuriri Hurdles presents a rather' better "proposition, with Nukumai opposed by Perle de Leon, Novar, Beau- • mont,: and Home Made. The last-named appeals, for his form on the flat in the autumn was good. Tresham should be equal to beating the not over-strong oppoWtipn in the Hack Hurdles for all his 11.2. Kaiti is an interesting new-chum jumper in ; this event. Royal Damon stands his ground in the Stewards' Stakes, and should ,not be overlooked. P. T. Hogan's Change of -Luck. No owner nor 'horse, not. excluding Hr.-George Paul and his champion Aussie, when the latter won the last James Hazlett ■ Memorial - Gold Cup, was ever j given a better reception from the crowd than when Fabriano won the Otago and Kiinedin Steeplechase, says the "Star/ P. T. Hogan at one time controlled the Jargest and most successful team of horses ever trained in Otago or Southland, but, like public trainers, had his lean' ■■■•.• years.: Unfortunately for him these lean • years extended over an unusually long period, but it would be quite impossible to keep this genial, cheery Irish-' man down for . ever, and his brother trainers and the public were genuinely glad to see his luck returning. With rNight Lad, Arrowy, and JFabriano he has won a _ fair share of races this seal $on, and with the former he will have a most promising three-year-old with which to commence the next season. Tattersairs fclub's New Chairman; -Mr- A. C. Ingham, the new chairman or Tattersall's Club in.Sydney, is one of the leading members in the timber industry of that city. He had been a comttitteeman for five years, and was a big ■worker in the new building scheme of the club, and was one of those responsible lor the. fine premises now owned by the organisation. He has been an alderman of Drummoyne for fourteen years and Mayor of that municipality for four years His circular to members before his elec^ tion stressed'the policy of developing the Social «de. of the xlub. Thi f is a feature of TattersaU's which ■, has fb be experienced to _be appreciated by Visitors to bydney. The club is not wholly'the bettag concern ■ that most folk imagine 2 C?,, s lnstitution Tattersall's Club officially has done a good deal for .the cky charities, and the records . enow that no less than £45,618:16s Id has oeen disbursed, i ■.:.•'. . fTouflh at Trentham. ' The Rivertoh trainer. Andrew M'Kay Jras present at the Winter Meeting at Dnnedin, and only had Cupid's Dart enfaged. He-, informed a Southern waiter hat Rin Tin-Tin was wintering well. In feply to a question whether he was going to_take him to the Wellington Meeting, M^ay replied: "No more Wellington for me. I've tried it, and they are too fast tip there." ■

The Leading Trainer. Gieseler added to his. winning score » the Winter Meeting at Dunedin by the Bdccesses Money Mine (twice) and Waving Corn, making his total now thirty-five for the season—eight more than P. -p. Olaridge, who was not able to add to his total. It looks as if Gieseler will retain his lead to the end of the season. He has headed this list on two previous occasions. Haze Still to Win. It seems strange that a horse who has been racing for several seasons and never yet won a race should carry No. 1 saddle cloth and be at the head of the handicap, comments a Southern writer. Yet this vas the case with Haze in the SilverStream Handicap at Wingatui. He looked well, but is yet on the big side, and the, facing he got at the meeting would do him good. (This is hailly. correct, for although Haze has innumerable minor places to his credit, he has also won—the Trial Stakes at Eiccarton in February of 1927 from Sir Roy and Calcite). iWingaiiuf Fences. When a well-known North Island owner, y-ho once- patronised a Winter Meeting jnth some of his horses, returned home he Sad a good deal to say against the Wingatui steeplechase course, and the water jump in particular, and a good deal of attention was paid 'to his remarks by jSorth Islanders, to the detriment of the club, writes "St. Clair." .It is now some years since there was a spill at the water jump, which most of the riders consider one of the safest and easiest obstacles on the course. The fences at Wingatui certainly cannot be trifled with, but they are not big, nor beyond the capabili-ties-of any "horue that has been l -viled With the exception of Wharnclfffe, who' by the way, has a lot to learn about steepl lechasing jet,, the horses that fell this" year all did so at the smallest fences in the circuit. ■ ■ . Oflln. The class bf hunters seen out at the Great-.Northern Meeting this year was probably weaker than it has been for some years, and the Hunt Club events proved easy for that improved horse Odin It w0..1d ■ ive baen interesting to have - seen Odin tested with a stronger class because he seemed to have a good deal in reserve m both his wins and would have done better if he had had something to make matters a little more difficult. Odin may not yet be a good horse, but his form ■was very encouraging and it iß.in his favour that he is only a young horse, who is mow.making progress after appearing to be nothing more than a moderate On the concluding day Dr. Grant, his owner liad him engaged in both open and hunters steeplechases, and was in a quandary whether to run his horse, who was on;the course, or not. A last-minute decision saw Odin walking off the course, fnd'fhe- scratching pen put through hia Same for both events. His owner had deSjded he -bad-done enough for the meetcngv .

Odds and Ends.

Clockwork was sore after his fall in the Great Northern. Hurdle Race, so his owifjr decider to give him a spell for the time being. 'T>. O'Connor was easily tile most successful horseman at the Dunedin Winter Meeting. It is rather a,coincidence that last year he won the-Otago and Dunedin Steeplechases and finished second in Ihe Wingatui Steeplechase on The Babe, and then he repeated the programme on Fabriario, another South Canterbury horse, this year.

J. Boyd, who has trained at Riccarton for^sonie • time, is transferring his team to Palmerston. North. He has bought the two-year-old Arrowhead, by Arrowsmith from Orange Blossom, and will bring him north. .The lightweight, W. Brown, will accompany him.