NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

' Tho' Thompson Handicap will bo > run on . . 'Wednesday; '' ' Herfeward (Stopuiak—Fairymaid) has done • ' no Work for noarly.two months. He-will not, be raced again this season. • • .' . • .'VStcpehild - (Stepniak—Cobweb), won. ai hur- - < dlo race at Adolaide on' April 11., There were twelve: starters; ■ ■; Though Exmoro has been in work for somo ■ 'little, time- now he., lias done, no -jumping; up, to the present. •'• •• i "•.. ; 'v' ■ ; t White Lie, winner of - the; Easter Handicap at-Tauherenikau,. has,-arrived at Trentham. Tho Merriwee mare is , engaged m'the Thompson Handicap \ - i i 1 A; two-year-old by Conqueror, owned by Mr. 'J. It. M'Donaldj' has T>een sent '.to-'-Por-'-'irua.to, be brbten ;in.. .!.I , have;notseen ..the ; . youngster, ' but';.:.rep6rt ! ; says';lie ( -.is.' 'the";besjtlooking colt ' that' the -Medallion horse - has' yet sired. Another: two-year-old; by St: Am-- .! brose—Seasholl, has. also joined the ;Porirua team. ( ; Dawn , arrived from < Auckland, and v went out to ■ Trentham :--:yesterday .'morning.', - The : * ;.r. others members :■ of 'Ithe ;Karamu, ;;tem ,-tllat' ;w t cr6'rrracihgV at-vAuckland-; have',;been ' ! sent' ! ~ '^home". •Jos.- Prosser 'has nine horses -located; it' Trentham. They ."are.--: Go]d,Grest;-.-'Mar- : guente, Taitoko,. 1 Gipsy. Belle, .Diabolo, ;Ku- >- ku,TjfPlaymatey' Kurawakaj'rand;,'Allj-Red. • .-. Kuku, looks very,';big. : --I{';ii.no certainty ;. ' that*he''will .'be'rkfffiftefl? Tlie.' whole of. the team will bo on the-..tracks.. this morning.: J ■ f ■'■ ■ ■ Tho.v tracks.. atv-Trentham appear, -to be b , in,; very good ■ ortler, ;;and.;if i tlie nwfeather; , :, keeps-'fine the going should bp • cscellont 1 on Wednesday. 1 r ' The • jockeys' quarters vat} Trentham'have been:, considerably enlarged .l and improved;-and-should meet-all, requirements,,now. ; . horses are expected to,arrive from. ; the-Southvthis ■ morning, and, th(j- majority. >.- of . :the-. visitors ' should ; be on:'the sceno by Monday night. " v Llanwern still appears to suffer, from ; the effeots of the accident'he^met-with;-last n •.; v<'y^»»T®®d-Xiii v is'"^bul>tfiiJ^i£^'lhißA|gpiiid-4pQj££B® ? , - . V ' to-win a race. -. W. Davies has :been most' unfortunate with this - colt,which ,is par- . ticularly well bred, and was, expected to turn.out very useful.,V.Leda,:;dam of Llanwern, was a No. (3) mare, and Pilgrim's Progress,, his sire, belonged to the No. (1); family:: According, to Mr./'Meek's statistics,, 'No. (1) sires, which-get a lot of winners ,in : 'England;': areVmost , 'successful ~when mated with''maros of the' No. (3)': family,- / 'so.'fithat'; everything . pointed: "'to a successful .; ; carGfer . for- Llanwern prior his accident.- 1 _ Perhaps Mr. Davies may be more fortunate with ; the colt's sister, whorhas not yet-been , taken in hand. • . The cflvner of . King Post informed me ■ yesterday ; afternoon: that - , ho intended to scratch the Seaton Delayal gelding for-the / Silverstream Hack at TVentham, as .ho considers' lie: has been weighted too heavily. Through PirstjMate, -Post' appears, to' be badly treated, asSjrst Mate beat King . Post':''at-. -Nelson: receipt'" of 101b., , and now; the'lßlnejacket' horse '-.'receives 161b." from King Post. -Nelson Meeting,' - however, second to Probability .in -the ; Halc*3ni,b<i Welter >.. .and the; Wellington handicap,br may.-have : placedBome value on' t%: Nevertheless,- Mr.; Liskirk- must -bo ' accounted rather .unlucky, for-,his horse has?bmy ;.wqn:;two: small races during the .seaso4;v'bit ; ''|lias .'been unfor- . turiate.'enough' and third . position on occasion's. - .'; .- D.' Maher, .wo<;ii|ieo,- was riding work' at Newmarket 'receatlyr'so that -his stay at 1 St. Moritz haS .ciimo to' an end.. Before leaving,'.he and'/J.' H, Mavt-in gave special . prizes'in cbnllajfcjon with'some' bob-sleigh races. The''"winner-of the jockeys' prizes proved to be J Lpifl Northland'with his bob" ■ Sleigh ll.—lfonjlon..''Sportsman., - PlaymatcAhas boen nominated -for-,the, EtcoplechasS-gyents •at Wanganui ■ and Eliershas 'coriie' in for a- little; criticismjTor-fliis . handling of ' the' Pilgrims' ::Prdgres?'C(ilt|'.ui'the Great Autumn Handi- . cap;""- I can gather, the lad rode ' strictly't-O/Hi'structions; ' ' - ' .. : from the Riocarton meet- : hig. sjiy must 'be easily 'the '-best J)egijfiGr?in-New.Zealand, but those who ; Trcrqi :at /i 'lsnei l sliQ'say that; Soultline would .- .ruufltptip, from -.tho barrier as: fast . as aiC'r-jlorso/. . ' i jho Jockey • Club's- Autumn concluded at Bandwick this "Lionheart and Waipuna are en- » Plaoe Handicap, one mils and a . *. in-'.the A.J.C. three ' ' in; the Steeplechase, ,'aiid -Wai- / ' Pinal Handicap,. one mile' and » a'quftrter/ ' . ' . an Australian'exchange of the v."ho wclcom«l tlie brilliant Nov.' % Mnnjeet in her'rcceiit victories, ,- a'* W6CBA able -'to .form' adequat'o estimation ,of ho#s#rg<sly •' Australia was indebted to" the lato-'Mr. J. Baker, of Morialta Stud, importer of-her ancestress.-'Munje'et's-ancestress ■ •vraaVLovi'ty, a bay mare, -brought out to Adc- . laido'jn the early sixties, and to Levity, the sister State ow«l a good deal of its initial - success in the production of racehorses, llad- '-. . d-ei- (Gbsooon—Aladras) was bred at the Kirlt- . liain Stud in' 1895. f 'She did not sell 'as a yearling, but when 'tho Kirkham Stuil was disbnAded in 1898 Mr. J. B. Ileid secured • kcr'for a morri;4o guineas, while, Madras and her Ayr Laddio loal fetched 155 guineas, and ' Madras's. yearling foal 100 guineas. Madder ; wis ;br«l into Galopin, The Flying Dutchi man, Hermit, Macaroni, Pocahontas, Yat- ) ■ tendon/.Stbckwell, S.A.-Conrad, S.A. Lncir fer, Talk of tho Hill, and English Kingston, \ potent strains which have hit with Stepniak m tho production of Rose Madder, Rubia, Mungista,'-, and Munjeet—all good winners. It is clear that tho master of Elde-rslio brpuglit off a rare bargain when'ho secured Madder.