NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 513, 21 May 1909, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

:,,V;: : --'-:'-C- ; - : '-' y rBY-Gr.ENCOE.I-:. : '- '■•■/. ■^Writingi'td \ a 'frieai ■ at:kiramav, T. Tddd. states that'lib is iidt likely to remain.long;in Sydney; ■ Maid -of All Work's-leg 'had filled, and. there.: appeared •to be. little or no prospect of the .wdrkniari, inaro'.standing.a preparation oh thb-Kard tracks in Australia.. Maid of All' Work: and ''.Herculean, who; is also: in Todd's cliargb;. li'ft'd' both-, got:under ,the 14.2' Standard,-, lviiile llerfie Oliver,"; who" ivent to other Sidai''.B;,'forthight .'ago,Vhad.beijn granted a: 14.1. certificate. Tlib/riding fee. on'the Sydney is-Ss; for;a losingfinoant on the'. flnt::hßd:..losi; iA-.-a of {lay which:does hot.seem to road to fortune." For sbmo.i time .'past the committee of tho iWest 'Australian';; Turf Club .has .'had uiider oonsidbfatibrt dl. revised,''Sdheiiio ill', connection withV the. stipendiary;-stewards. ; According, to: the' Perth Bbrrespondent of ;thb.'"Austral_asiah," it has hbiv;.been; decided ..to dispehsb with ,tho : services'of^the:paid stewards oil AiigUst 1, btita's/ybt it is not.known',-.what.ne* scheme-the: club will -..' Presumably the bid system. ■;of iTiohbfdl'ystewards will be'faVertfed'to.: : . -.Itl'the p'tihlished list:of .hbmihations for'•' the ■Wellington .Pony and .Galloway- Racing Cldb's 'Juh'e/.ihfbtihg in'yesterday's issue,;'-tho'. follbtvirig.'wM'b'bmiftb'd:'—Maiden Handicap': After Dark;- York Handicap!"After'Darka; Vacation Handißbp:.',After'Dn'rk and Pbtt-oilcl;. Hnri'di- . clips for all events will lie dbolafed. t'b-inorrbw.

; "A.-'patent jndge's,record..(Can's)'is now being' ;ttsed';dnisb'mft;.4f the racecourses in,, Victoria, and the 'invention,- by an ingenious contrivnhes df :SPi'iugS;;cliiibles tlib jiidgO'tb'hbist' the wlhning: numbers over, his box almost immediately thb-horseß, have passed ..the post; ;■ ■' ~.- —•■ ...Sonie jockeys in.the Wahgamii Steeplechase' tb-morrowwill beVTilsoh (T.Fritchard), Nogi i(J.'Dela"tiby),'•■-Jackpot (D. Watt),.M'occosiu"(H. Gairhsli*<Orvx::(Morfis), :PdiVa •(Young); Playmate (A, M'Cbhtton). D.: AVatt, who rides Jackpot, .won-the race in 1901 on/Moifaa, andT. :Pritbliard,:ivho rides Tilson, was on the back of th'bXethb gelding when he won last year's i'a'c'eV?.'''::'■'•?': ■'■'■/ '.. - : : ;•'/.. : *. ■:..-. '-.. "■■::

• to--,"rac« - for ,'tha' Century..Hurdlcs::at ..Wttgahui: was; instituted, in.. 1901, only /once, lias it..hben:wbh bjr/a horse carrying more than .io'.4.';- That,'\yas Vheri.Waiwcra' won in 1902, In fiV'b "bf the; eight; 'contests, the'.winner'. has, car-' fied. .less.'than 'lOs.t;/The,.paco is, always' -a .oVicker in : this race,' and' it ,rsnWfe6 an ung'bbd'lib'rs'o tb see out tho full-dis-"..tih'ck with,ii bi?-Weight in. tho" saddle.' '■ Tlib .trend' of ,the : donblb betting. this, year- his been iall;'towards''the heavily-weighted 'division First.lCftiiroma; list.- lib.,:was favourite,"'and; .wheh'he:fejedbd inithe-cbetting,; ilaidi, ,'llst. : 71b.,' and, Master".-Douglas', .llst.81b„: were supported, ...while' yesterday, tho moneyCwas for Exihoor, list;" 51b. /, ~, '...-."', ..;.-/;■.-'='

.Er'dmisiu'g hurdlers'/among the .liglit-'iveight {division, such' as Rarigihaeta, 10st, Bclario, 9st; 21B.; hud .Compass, 9st. ; 121b., do not appear to be '.tibko&cd with, 'and yet Compass' showed good lorniLat the back end; of last season,' and Eangihaeta and Belario have both done well in theirfefettempts over , the battens'this season, '/After Rangih'aeta had run .second. to; Kai-. rto'nd aV,Tre'ntham; many sportsmen 'Were very eltnil'siastio 'about-.him, because had-Kairoma • not. started -.the;, Rangipnhi horse' would' have madd. an:/o.yiibit!oA Of the remaining candiadtes: What lias h<J done fcihc'b to recede in favour? . • ; Inthe Argentine,. where I have' recently b'&'eiV i(saS'S ' the 'fecial commissioner of tho Lbndbn "Sportsman ) aud seen sorae racing, the 'garter is given d .ffee hand - tb either wMk'iiis ho'rses iip or start .them from-a stand. He :.admirAbljr.in, walking .them Tip for fill', the loh'gehdistatice races; but for {lie sprint races he'failed every time to. brihg, off a walk-ing-bp ; start*' &i\d - After several. -€ii'deiVours, ; which.mennt;breaking the tapes every time, he lined tffftm up and made them do it at a stand. .This, information is .worth .having,'. 1 frolh' .what'l have 'Seen with liiy. Swn,;ej-es. I; ,whs f'always 'certain' that, a starter cotild not. walk-up • liirsea for a raco»\bnt I was none the less convinced tile\t it cbuld be done .for the? longer, ,distances, and ,tlii§ view fraS exactly citofirmed' by what U sa# ht Bmgraho, Very It is really l .wonderful how well they;. manage both, the starting and the betting,m.the.Argentine, and Xtyish'that.ohf;future, in the lifiter respect, were as well scoured as theirs is. InvereargilV; sportsmen ;.are movitfg iii &5 direction-bf .fofihing.C'tfbftiug club. A largo number, of;useful trotting horses ;aro bred in Southlin'd,. iifetl. it;ii? considered , that" a club with ■ its hea'dtjua'rters 'in 'Ihvercargill would V. , Half a-doien horses,br'ed iHthS' North Isliftdwill ■be ■ racing at the North' Otago Jockey Club s .m'cMirtg V on . 3 'Saturday - and Monday. Eoftus, and Southern ■ Cross "are . among tho 'nnmbW,' '"j .'.o" Scotty, 1 ! who -niust. be the: only. one of St ' Lfegers. jjrogeily ni)\v oil tho' racing track, is ; eftusred i,ttr the.pririciiiiil 'event' at the Tdkapuna Jockey. Cltib'e meeting on Saturday.' Reports'irdin ; Aticlclahd state, that the old fellow ib shaping .well'.oh,the.i.tricks, v V sijatecli.on what 'appears to be good authority, that Audax and Kairoma will bo railed .tb the- Main . Trunk line next' Wednesday.. ' ' B.- Deeley. has it last taken to riding'hui> dlersi and.'has been schooling Irish at Ellerslie during ,tho past, week. ; Moral is stated to .be. making good' progress from his injury, but it,' is .not intended that the. 1 big" son of The .Possiblb .frill' ever race again.," Ho ought tb .prbvb iisefiil ins a siro I though. ' ■