NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 262, 29 July 1908, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

tßv Gusncoe.] The Hawko's Bay Hunt Club meeting takes place at Hastings to-day, , ■ North Island owners and trainers whu journey to the Grand National meeting at Riccarton should not' overlook nominations' for the Marfan Jockey Club's meeting, which fall duo in Grand National week. The Winter,.Cup''candidate. Maharanu! waa snipped to Rieeartoii last night. ' '■< ■' '.The owner of Loch"Fyno priced Sen' Sim , oil Saturday, but as tho figure at' which the ■ ; chestnut.,was. quoted was a rather, substantial one, no business resulted. ■ , coiritnitoee' of vtlii) - Taranaki Jockey .- .' s Club has elected Mr. C. Lemper,'Chairman ■' for the ensuing yeah :tr ■ . A writer in" the Field," in diEoiiesSg the". . breeding or )'':Eveh where..' . pedigrees of hef have been published .1 saw . lione that quite correct, and it is iin» poi-LEtllfc tO'notice that the filly conics from, a Figure System, tapteot of wiiieli the. late-.. Mr. &-i. fact kayes, (jiiite out in-the cold." .In double business transacted-it the'reCeht. Trorithain Meeting,'backers plumped strohgly , for Penates in the Winter.Cupi -while Scbtty, :• P&rittittt,' ahd Aoraiigi, \vGte iti d6fiiatid v tbr ' • the. Grand.National Hurdles.. ; s -.-j-.,-. .Percy Johnson'was'absent fre'm'.'New' : Ply- r "' mouth for a. fe\v days.last week, . time R. Barlow had care o{ \ ' -:- : t W.: Mobberley took Loch Fyne south' ' ' night as the Loehness gelding is to fulfill-his •' engagement-in the Grand National Steeple- • chaße. next, month.-. Last year; Loch, Fyne failed .to get round the big.. eounttyVat: Ric-. : •-. carton, but lie has .been jumping. sb. wMl'dur- "• nig the mfet two months, that his-tra.inor.coiK :V fidontly expects lis will give a good' account' ' of himself m the big event. >■-. , Twc. other-steo'plcchase- horses;'that, went; south last night wore Le Beau and-Pierre, v. ~i . < The form' exhibited- by Lo, Beau at" Tite v-' " tham, .wag- c.oi'taiiily not very' eucouragiiig,'but tha liesji three weeks will give his owner- : time 'to -work some'improvement in'''-'-111111. ; _ Pierre, who, injured his shoulder when ha fell, in, the Welliiigtou Steepleehttse, 4iFpra<V"i. ! -- tically. right again. He is a- hardy s little" V horse< alid it. will not-surprise me if.,he gets" on the winning, list down 60uth. „ The, ann'lial Te'port of tho" Hawbb's', Bay ' Jockey Club to be submitted at the annual- J meeting of the Club next week discloses a • ; satisfactory state of affairs. The' s(im of ; £7490 was distributed ill stakes for: the vari- s ous meetings, and the year's operations'resulted in. a profit of over £2000. The cbmmittee, in the report thanks Sir W. R. Rua- : J sell for presenting the ■ Silver-Cup at tha A-'utumh Meeting. Tip, one of tho horses engaged in■ • the• steeplechases at the Fleet meeting, is, eight. •'/ een," yea'rS. bid, ■ and: Pipi, another of tho candidates, will' be fourteen when the fixture' comes round; /" ; ' Says the. "New Plymouth Nowi" :—"Mr.... F. Ni, Jones, tho-well-known.totaiisator- pto-'- ,' pfietor, ■ received asmall amount -of ■ '-'con- > . science -moneyi;.,the:.bther day...oln an" enyolope, addressed in-disguised handwriting,; Mr. • JOnes. fo.und.six.shillingsfin postal,notes",- the: -• piltt of onei of- fololwing 1 :-. belongs::to.you, as at: n-rftcS. i meetmg :ono8:;you-.,paid .'me-: 6sf-iocnimuch.—' ; n Horsey. - • ; ' Y al '? a was railed-te'PaliiiehWff yesterday ..' and.-.will be taken, on tp Pahiatua l next wees 1 .to .-compete: at - the---- Woodlaiids '-Huiit- Club - ; Meeting.'-:.; -- -. /';VSloi'.Tom is Mporfed'tb' :i of. work, .'and: 'as, the'-'majbrity "' ißland. chasers have had plenty "of racing; re- . eehtly they'should bo'better fitted..to get to the end of the trying' jotirney' aV RiccartonV, ; ;S6otty was .taken on to Riccarton last-night - to Undergo his final preparation for the Grand ' National Hurdle Race. Aorangi and Truce, who are still quartered at Trehthata; will'' * ■most likely make the-journey on Thursday. •. .. One ■ of i the mo^V'sporting' matches' of ' modem times has been-arranged"and 'Will ' take.plaeo at one of the Neffniarket meetings. Lord Durham, has matched his.three-yeai--old .' Miasma .-'against" Mr'. 'James de Rothschild's three-year-old '.Chimbprazp,. the conditions being that John Osbornci is to ride the former, and Butters, the Newmarket trainer, the lat.t^r."'"Butters",'.'like Osbomej -was in his day a ' famous jockey, and, also like Osborne, rides regularly "tVexercise. ,The Evergreen-John' Osborne is seventy-five years old, and Butters cannot, bo many years , "Sportsman.""'.'.'..."-V:'.y'" -The' jSoult gelding.,Waipuna- is- - going along satisfaotorilymi Sydney in preparation, for. tho Spring- events.. -It is saidr..that his specialM: missioiris the.Caulfield-Cup.^. Rheumatism is said to- have'affected' several of the horses at 1 Tr'enthahi last'week.Some"'> ■of them appeared to be ver^'-'stiff .when gal- : - loping.' ■ ■ ' ' •' . The New. Zealand-bred Delaware, has been ;: performing..'consistently, in Meibounie, lately,.' but ho Beoms to bc mecting .with, moro.-than : his share of bad luck, for .-he has filled second -, position, in three good handiCpas : during, the . - . last-sis': weeks..; On July.lß he was.beaton a■ , !neck : by,. Proceeder- in - the : -.Murrumbeona- .. Handicap at Caulfield. .The"jiair met,,at a.."''' difference of 21bs. only. In' November last. , - when Procoeder beat tho Seaton — Delaval horse in the V.R.C. Handicap, the latter was in receipt of 161b5,, .-but he has evidently in tho' estima'tioii-'of the handicappers .since. that date'.' "•. ■ .. i";; ' \ tV I Highland Reel (Stepniak—Strathspey),'has-.-been sold to an Australian buyer, and 'Will ■ . be shipped to the other-side-at .the! conclii-...-sion of the Grand National meeting: ' \.' ' It is much t-o be : regretted "that -the'- \ posals .'of tho.Hawke's Bay , Jockey Club to place a race of at least a mile and a* quarter :; ■' on tho programme of each day's racing, and 1 ' to placo at least ,two steeplechases on eachday 1 s programme in the jumping. season;-mot ~ with such a poor reception ■ "by, tko .Racing - Conference. There can be very little doubt. .. that. the carrying' of those , two.. would have done much to'improve, racing as.-', a sport, and, indeed, none of the delegates ; at the, Conference appeared to question this phase of the matter. The .main argument' , against tho proposed amendments was that they might diminish .t-lifl - revpnuo of the v smaller clubs. -Tho.Hon. J. D. Ormond and Mr. G. Hunter put forward.many; good: rea- .. sons in favour of the changes, but they fell en deaf cars, and it is evident tli.it th<? Confer- • >: once -does, not welcome' innovations that are' ( likely to prove is, cer : ' tainly busirioss-like, but' is" it sportsmanlike ? V