NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 556, 10 July 1909, Page 13

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

rßt Gl ENCO» 1 : Tho V.R.C.- Grand National meeting will be * conclude*!. at. - Floniington to-dayj when ' the Grand National Steeplechase will be run. I',lot is now tho only New _ Zealand-bred torso left m tho Grand • National ■ Steoplo-, ■ chase, though' a 'fiumber- are entered for : other events on the programme. , \ Haurangi, who won the hurdle race on the : first day of the Gisbomo meeting, is engaged :in' tho Grand: National Steeplechase, at,, tho minimum weight.- , .

Another Grand National Steeplechase candidate that was successful at Gisborne is To Arai, who has 9st 131b. fti the big crosscountry event at Riccarton. . Since being bought by Mr. Morse, Te Aral has won half-a-dozen races, and, as he is not up in the freights yet, ho is likely to do his owner further good service. , > , Among the 'jumpers' at the Gisborria Meeting, Te Arai was in a olass by himself; he ' won both his races with ridiculous ease. He Rill probably come on to Trentham on Monday, and,* as the tracks &ro_ now soft, his trainer should have no anxiety, about the Gisborne horse standing up to his, work. Tho Saracon gelding Heathen waa shipped to Sydney from Auckland on Monday Jast. He is afterwards 'to go on to Melbourne. Elysian has resumed work at Ellerslio, and should be ready to take part in the principal three-year-old races in tho spring. I 'W. Young received a wire from Auckland, during tho week, asking him to'ride Bully i in tho.. Winter Hurdles at Trentham , I i 'P Porter was in good form in the saddle j at the Gisborne meeting, riding To Arai and Gladsmuir ill their l double viotorios. " ,) r 'After paynSent of first forfeits; fifty candidates remain in the Great Northern Guineas, ' Jo be ran at EUorshe in November. Sublirao won three races at tho Gisborne .meeting; and Te Arai, Baldos, .and Gladsmuir, each won doublos. > i ■Winning jockeys at tho Gisborne meeting were: F. Porter, four}' E. Lowe three 1 , A. - Selby'two, B Deeley two, P. Howard, W. Young, and Horn one each. / Minoru, the Derby mnnor, is not engaged In, tho Eclipse Stakes of 10,000 sovs., to be run at nex't Friday, nor ore the 'other classio winners,' Electro and Perola, engaged. The field, however; is likely to include Bayardo, Signorinetta, and Your Majesty. , t *, Kremlin will probably be shipped south tomorrow > to fulfil hia engagements in those , parts, and ho should be among tho track workers at Trentham by Tuesday or Wednesday. , , . . * . ' i- Baldos, who won a race on each day of . tho Gisborno meeting, is spoken'of as a very pronlising / hurdler, lie has jumped beauti; tolly on the, occassions that ho has been tried over tho small sticks. ~' Hp is a halfbrother, by Woiuku to Splendid, Idea. W. Young's winning rido at Gisborne was ' gained on the flat, so that ,he is still level with Q. Cochrane.at the head of v tho list ' of ' winning hurdle horsemen. As Young, Cochrane and'Ji'Hall'aro all likely to have good mounts on tho threoi days 'of the Tren"i ' thatn meeting,', the*contest 'fort'supremacy ms-becomes rrforeiintercstirig (than'evefi'fj The Saoretache gelding Continuance, who has shown fair i form 'during the pijst fei? t months), is npder offer .to, a, woll-known .sportsman,'who, is loolring..for a jumper. • t This voar moving-pictures of the Derby jvere taken by ftho kinemacolour process, which shows the horses, riders, and surrounding scenery "in natural colours. Tho pictures were produced at the Palace Theatre,. London, and big business has been the result i i ' Sublime, who won three races at the Gisborne meeting, is a half-sister to tho Wellington Stakes winner, Theodore. ■■ ' , When tho last mail loft P, Woot-, ton had ridden 45 winners, and his victories since that dnto me'udo ft win an Pero'i m tho 'Oaks. D. Maher, who was" second on ,- the list, had only 25 wins to his oredit.