NEWS AND NOTES

NZ Truth, Issue 804, 9 April 1921, Page 7

NEWS AND NOTES

. The Trentham Gold Cup will be run to-day. Acceptances for tlie Manawatu meeting close to-night (Friday). . The Manawatu meeting takes place on Wednesday and Thursday next. Nominations for all events at the Egmont meeting close on Friday, April 22.Nominations for all events at the Ashburton meeting close on Monday, April 25. Entries for all events at the Marlborough meeting close on ' y rhursday, April 'l4. Followers of "form" got very much m the soup at Feilding when results favored the bookmaker. A. McAulay is shortly leaving Hastings and will take charge of Mr. W. Higgin's team at Trentham. A greatly improved mare, Miss Maid. Remember, she is good when the sting is out of the turf. President A. C. H'anlon, of the Dunedin Jockey Club, was a visitor to Auckland for tlie Easter meeting. Owners should not overlook the closing of acceptances for the JVJanawatu meeting. These are due to-night (Friday). It is reported, that the Napier trainer, Joe Oldfleld, will m future act as private trainer to Mr. E. R. Murphy, of Gisborne. Weights for the Hawke's Bay meeting will be declared next Friday, .and acceptances close the following Monday _ at 8 p.m. The Ashburtpn Cup will this year be worth £450, which Includes a silver cup valued at £40, presented by Mr. I-I. F. Nichol. It was intended to sell Surveyor at Christchurch but there Avas no market and the horse was returned to Hastings where he will be turned out. Herring, one of the big guns of the English ring many yea>s ago, retired to a palace m Mayfair, and ended by leaving a great fortune to the Salvation Army. On the completion of his term of en-\ gagement as private trainer to Mr. F. J. Lysnar, H. *I-lickey will relinquish the position and again set up as a free lance. There are 60 horses m the racing team m charge of the Hon. G. Lambton at Newmarket, England. Diadem, Gold Age, Plantaganet and Stanislaus are m the string. Owners of second-class horses will get an opportunity of picking up some stake nioney at the- Blenheim meeting on May 6 and 7. Entries for all events close on Thursday next. Tireless was a big tip for the Juvenile Handicap at Avondale on Saturday but got . well lashed. He was out m front and had every chance at the turn but then punctured. . . '. The imported horses Auckland and Callaghan, have been freely nominated at the Trentham and Awapuni fixtures. This' Is not giving them* much time to (become acclimatised. Evidently the fall Eurythmic got On the training track at Rand wick did not affect him as the-Westral'iah was able to clean up the weight-for-age events m addition to the Sydney Cup. Three yearlings were handled by G. Jones at Napier prior to his move to Riccarton. They were a Feramarz— Phi-ill colt, a Kilbroney — Grey Linnet filly and an Absurd— Ursula filly. Johnny Walker has been showing a bit of form of late and il is quite on the cards that he will win a race and m part repay H. ■ How.c for the trouble he has taken with tho aged Martian gelding. T. Quinlivan was at Trentham last week making arrangements for some additional boxes at the stables recently ■purchased by Mr. E. Riddiford. The stables will not be occupied for about six "weeks yet. Eurythmic still continues on his winning way m Sydney. . After scoring m 'the Autumn Stakes on yie opening day. the Westralian crack came out on Monday and won the Sydney Cup with 9.8 m the saddle.; . The Grand National ..Steeplechase course at Aintree is considered the most formidable m the world, and there are frequently many falls. The race last month was a record m this respect, the winner, the Irish gelding Shau'n Spadah (lflaster Prize— Ruxialka) being the only • one of the 37 starters to stand up: Five others were remounted, and four completed the course, the rider ol* the second (Mr. H. A. Brown) doing .so with a broken collarbone. Probably when full accounts of the race come to hand,* we shall find that the chapter of accidents was partly accounted for by there being such a huge field.

Galore is now trained by D. Hands, at Trentham, and looks well. . Miss Mimic and Silver' Link, winner:; of the big Easter Handicaps, both started ninth fa,vorit*e. •Backsheesh has gone sore, so J. Mcloughlin has decided to spell the Bezonian gelding for the rest of the season. Risingham, who broke down m December, is still running out at Trentham, He seems sound again; but as his wind is affected he will not be put into training. The first annual general meeting of the North Island Owners' and Trainers' Association is to be held m the Empire Hall (next Empire Hotel), Palmerston North, at S p.m. on Tuesday, April "12. Included m Mr. AY. Higgins's active team at Trentham is the Egypt-^-Pour-parlcr yearling, given him by Mr. B. .1011. The youngster was formerly a maneater but he is now very quiet and goes along like an old horse. The three-year-flld Martial Dance has again been put into work by A: Mclvor. It was intended to start again on Primum, but he was kicked by Mantua so will have to get a further spell. Marble Alley, the half-brother to Radial, is trained at Hawera by J. Brown for Mr. James Bull, of Hunterville. Marble Alley was sent to Trentham along with Rational, but Is not engaged at the meeting. Roseday is a. big, overgrown gelding that bears the appearance of having been raced too soon. He will not be much good until he gets through another winter. He is a full -brother to Solfanella, so is worth giving every chance. Tlie English horses, Callaghan and Auckland, are m regular work at Trentham, and the latter has already done a lot of galloping, but he seems to be favoring one of his fore legs so may require a let up. Callaghan is a qual-ity-looking.-.thoroughbred and is being given time. •