NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10614, 12 June 1920, Page 10

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By “Carbine.”) The Xapier Park winter meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday of next week. Acceptances olckso on Tuesday.

The next fixture at Trentham is the Wellington -winter meeting, at which the principal event will bo the Wellington Steeplechase of ,-LTOCO. The dates ror the meeting are Wednesday, July 1-itn, and Saturday, July 17th.

J. O’Shea, L. Hewitt, and E. C. Rae are appealing to the Racing Conference against their suspension by the Auckland district committee.

An attempt as to bo made to convert Thraco into a steeplechaser, and S; Henderson is to school him. Thrace was a fast, cleagi jumper over hurdles and shaped as though ho would manage the bigger fences well. • Luporino got staked in the forearm while schooling at Eillcxslie.

Thursday next was the day fixed by K. J. Mason, for the departure of Gloaming and Karo for Sydney, and presumalfly they will sail then if transport troubles do not prevent them.

News from the Hast Coast is that Chillies is shaping .exceptionally well over fences.

T>av Comet, who ds now at the stud in the Waikato, was represented hy a winner et Cattexick Bridge on April otu. the ch' f Flashawav winning the Craven Plato, of IcO sovs. for turee-year-ofets. She sttu-ted four times last soßson wituout winning.

It is reported that Royal A obey has been sold for 890 guineas. As he is a great jumper and a useiul horse on the flat he should not be a’dear purchase. The South Island sprinter. Silver Peak, who won at the recent Dunedin meenng, is’a very useful mare and has won. w£ll over «£TOOO in stakes this .season. There is talk of her being one of the Winter Cup candidates. The well-bred Macdufi is to be added to the ranks of the hurdlers. He is at present turned cut, and when he is seen in public again he will carry the colours or Mr G. Fulton. A youngster whose career will he watched with inteiest is a gelding by Solferiuo from that brilliant pertormer Warsbep. Like other good mares Warstep may throw 'nothing of hex own class, but her progeny will always hold more than ordinary interest for those who remember the turf career of the dam.

A proposal to make a new rule will be brought before the Racing Conference next month. The motion will be to the effect that in the event of a strike by jockeys the stewards may allow unlicensed persons to ride at the meeting affected. .The proposal comes from the Wairarapa Club. The permission to use numerals in England is now bordering on the ridiculous, as there, is a Lady uird XVII. and a sportsman XVi., wnile The Ghosi XV. and V. were allowed in the Calendar of April Ist. ( That Linac.ro is still popular as a sire was demonstrated when the yearling sales were held in Sydney and good prices were obtained for his stock. The reason for this ■ popularity is seen in the race records of tho country, and this season the stock of the son of Wolf's Crag have won over 9t> races. With The Welkin ho has headed the list for the last three /seasons, but this year Comedy King (to whose credit Artilleryman placed a lot of money) may head them both.

Although there was opposition, the following rule against the ownership of racehorses were adopted at the annual meeting of tho Jockey Club of South Africa last month; “.No bookmaker shall be allowed to own a horse, wholly or in part, or be the lessor or lessee, or shall have any interest whatsoever in any horse for the purpose of racing under these rules. For any contravention of this rule the horse or horses shall be disqualified, and all persons concerned in any such transaction shall he learned off."

At the annual meeting of the Racing Conference in Wellington Sir George Clifford (at the request of tho handicappers) will move a now rule to the effect that at cverv meeting the programme shall include the following races:—(a) One flat race of not less than orra mile and a quarter; (b) not more than one race on each d-ay of the meeting for horses three-years-old and upwards of a less distance than six furlongs; (c) two handicaps of a minimum weight of not less than 7.7.; (d) if the meeting is to be held on any day from June 7th to August 31st inclusive, at least one Maiden or Hack or Hunters’ Steeplechase.