NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 214, 3 June 1908, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[BY Glkncoe.'l Racing at Ellerslie, Otaki, and Wingatui to-day. The principal event to bo decided at Ellerslio is the Great Northern Steeplechase; at Otaki; the Ratikawa Cup, and at Wingatui, the Birthday Handicap. Albert Jackson took King Post through to Otaki by yesterday morning's train. The Seaton Dclsv.il gelding is engaged in the Flying Handicap. Frank Higgott took Wailethe, Tupono, and Moata to Otaki yesterday morning. Moata is not ongaged to-day, but if conditions are favourable he may bo given a run to-mor-row. • Len King will have the mount on Lady Disdain in tho Tradesmen's Handicap at Wingatui to-day. ,Tho Officer maro has been showing fair form on the tracks recently. 1 . The Raukawa Cup at tho Otaki meeting has never been run in very fast time—the best on record being 2min. 135e0., registered by Sir Tristram in last year's race. Unless the tracks are very heavy to-day, this time is suro to.be beaten, for tho field ongaged is tho best that has yet been seen in the event. From the top of tho handicap. tho names are Mahuta (ligmont Cup), Waitapu (Dannevirko .Cup), Bourrasque . (Fcildin« Cup), Cross t Battery (Ashburton Cup), All Red, Aboriginal (Marlborough Cup),- Signor (St. Leger), and several other good performers, follow! If Cross Battery gallops up to form sho will break 2min. lOscc. for the. mile and a quarter, but Mahuta, Waitapu, Bourrasque, and All Red will probably compel her to do something better than that if sho is to win. Probable, who ran two seconds at the North Otago Jockey Club's meeting, is rapidly coining -back'to form. Ho is engaged m the . Birthday Handicap at Wingatui 'to-' day. - Seaman, who,has not raced since tho Wellington spring : meeting, will make his . reappearance at Otaki to-day, and Llanwern (Pilgrim's Progress—Led'a) will bo seen under silk for: tho first timo. W. Dimes took them through yesterday morning, along with Ballarat and Yosami. Tho two trotters, Woodburn Lad and Special Form, which passed through here from Blcnhiem oh. Friday morning, aro both engaged at the' Plumpton Part Trotting Club's meeting to-day. i '_ G. Musscn, the apprentice' who was injured by a fall from Mango in the Stowards' Handicap at Oamaru, is-still confined to his bed. His thigh was badly bruised by the fall, and ho was unable to movo his log for several days after the mishap. Tho brown maro Satisfair (Birkenhead— Content), who has been racing well since her .arrival in' Queensland last year, achieved an important victory on the first day of tho Queensland Turf Club's autumn meeting,, whohi 'sho' won tho Strsdbroke Handicap. There were'twenty starters in tho raco, and the Birkenhead mare, with 7st. 91b. in tho. saddle, won easily, covering tho six furlongs in lmin. 15-Jscc. On tho second day of'tlio meeting sho was niised : a stone, and finished unplaced in the New Handicap, seven furlongs. . 1 V

| Tho New Zealand horse 3 Pink 'Un, Idealist, and Swimmer, raced unsuccessfully at the Epsom (Vic.) meeting on May 23. ■ The Now' Zealand pony Ruatamata (Mahalri—Amouroux), ,'which was sont to Australia a few months ago, won tho Flying Handicap;at the-Kensington races on AlaV 20. ■ 1 . Acording to tho Sydney "Rcforeo," Mar r 'guerito was purchased by the Bombay sportsman who races as R.R.S." . Tlid Stopniak mare was greatly admired , as sho. passed through Melbourno. - The Officer mare Otira, an inmato of D. J. Price's stable, was heavily' backed for a race at the Epsom meeting a fortnight ago, but sho could only nm into second place. Maori Girl (Stopniak—Lady's Maid), who has been rather a disappointment , in tralia, won a six furlong raco. at a . country meeting last..wcelt: ' .' NEW ZEALAND CUP. (BY .-TELEGRAPH,- —PRESB ASSOCIATION.) •.,.Christchurch, June -'- .i The lire'tho nominations for the New Zealand ' Cup, of 2000 sovs. ;i second horse to reoaivo 300 sovs.; and the third 200 sovs. Two'miles:—Frisco, Apa, Lark, Ellortony ■ Lamsdorfl:, j ■ Lawn Rose, TJlilandoj Glonullin, . Camp Eire, Stratagem,' Coraho, Tangimoana, Miss Mischief, White Lie, Drl - Shimtnosc, Shujai'.- Cross Battery, NoVee, 1 Ring Dove, Count JVitto, Downfall, Bobrikoff, Cohort) Bourrasque, Mahuta, Red and Black, Field Gun,' Restless, Interpreter, Fandango, , Oirilander, Maharanui, Mallet,' Tiptoe, 'Prime, Bonny Glen, Truce, 'Tho Rand, Formative, .Uonuku, Lapland, Don Orsino, Zinamerman, St. Aidan, Diamond, .Star, Bollin, Riflemaid, Moloch, Saga; King Post, Multifid,| Moral, Aboriginal,' Grand Slam, My Darling, Master Delaval, Master Soult, Seaman, Landwern, : Annamento, ArtiUerie, br. g. by Menschikoff, _' Durus (2yrs.), Uhlantler, Signor,' Carissima, Guilding Step, Paragon, Sir Frisco, Waipuna, San Fernanda, Crichton, Benefo'rm, St. Joe, Zetland, Heorthen, Tho, Probable, :Kilts. ' THE FftENOH DERBY. ; A DEAD HEAT FOR FIRST PLACE.' ■ MY TELK3EAPH-—rilL'SS ASSOCIATION—COPYRI3H7 London, June 1. Tho following is the result of the race 1 for tho Froncli Derby (Prix du Jockey Club), one mile and a half; run at Chantilly, near Paris (last year the race, was .worth £7260 to.the winner); Mr. W. K. Vandorbilt's b. o. Sea Sick 11, by Elf—-Saf 5af.....' .„. f M. Deschamp's ch. o. Quintette 11, by Gardofeu—Dinotto^• t M. E. do St. Alary's Kenilworth ............ 3 Sea Sick, is a stontly bred animal descending from tho declining line of Herod. He is iui interesting horsti for English sportsmen, because'he is engaged in and has been solidly backed for the Derby,' to be run to-day. Last season he ran at Deanville in August, when he finished third in a field of eight for the Prix Yacowlef of 10,000. francs, fivo furlongs. In September, ho won the Prix do No/.el at St. Cloud, 3000 francs, seven furlongs, .beating three others. At St. Cloud, on September 30, ho won tho Prix de la Marcho, 4000 francs, seven furlongs, from eight opponents, and on October :3 ho was third at Maisons-Lafitto for tho Prix Eclipse, beaten threo lengths from the winner, LaVnaneur, who was conceding 3 kilos. This season ho won a three-year-old raco at MaisonsLafitto, but was oasily beaten by Binion at Paris. . Quintotto II won tho only two races hp started ill last season, and ho won a- tluec-year-old raco in March.: ■ ' Kenilworth had not been on tho winning list until the first week in April, when ho ivon a. maiden, threc-ycar-old raco at the Paris spring meeting. Dead heats in classical races are of'comparativoly rare occurrence.