NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 578, 5 August 1909, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

"'...'.;'.-.:'. IBt Gr.ENcos.l ,' Tho. Victorian Amateur Turf. Club's meeting conimenoca at ,'Caullield on Saturday.'. ..,'Bonas; (Birkenhead— Industry), who won a maiden, raco in Melbourne ■ recently, is-en-gaged ,in the Caulfiold and Melbourne Cups at the minimum. "Mr. E. J. Watt's horses,.Maori.King and Bally Shannon, have been withdrawn from the.AJ.C. Derby.; ' , /, .' . , R. W! King, who went across to Australia to tide 'Sareriado, returned/to New'.Zealand by.tho:Manuka,;which arrived, from!, Sydney yesterday morning. .'■' .',:'.;.:'' . Tyrannio was'the only double winner at thoWoodlands Hunt Club meeting yesterday. , 'Trie Riccartoii traok-watchers are'pleased v/iti the way Ben Jonson.is shaping over. thbhurdleS: The majority of them have not seen. ;.Tauira ; jump, so it will be interesting to 'hear their opinions of Ben Jonson after Tauira has been/"schooled, at Riccartoii.... • ', 'Half, a-dozen*, horses wont to ißiccartbn by tho.;;Tarawera yesterday, and■ over, a.'dozen were.on /board ',;■' the "■'■ Maori! - Tho latter vessel's J shipment v included Penates, ' the Winter Cup/favourite, and Tauira, the Grand National Hurdles,favourite.'. ■ -.'■■'.•.. '~':/ -Penates /appears to bo/in great, heart--everyone admits that—but some express tho opinion that -he would have.been better had ho started, in a couple'more races' during the winter. he'will bo out in front "at. one part of. the. Winter. Cup to be admitted'a's x a : natural, conclusion. But will he _ruli. the : mile-right out?, is; also asked. ,/■ There,are.arguments, too, advanced against , Tauira's 'chances in/tho'.hurdles.- The bookmakers" s'ay that .lip is not nearly suoh a hot fayouiifco' as was Battlcaxo a few years, ago. ■'•'And;'',. they 'say, ■-'Battleaxe )vas beaten!'' ' ! jno.O'Cohticll; who .Went to/Melboiirno to nde\Waipn and Kiatore, was a passenger by tho'.'.Manuka,,.which arrived;, in. /Wellington yesterday'.morning; Ho states that- Kiaterb' injured:.his' leg! in the ■/'train'; journey from Sydney .to; Melbourne,, and poisoning, set in. fie was, 'started in flat, race, and showed a fair 'turn! of pace, but his leg was in' a/bad;- way. afterwards,Vand : it .will bo sohie./.timo. bcfore'lie is right. > Waipu galloped /well on tho track before thd i Grand ■ National Hurdle Race, but. ran'badly in-that event. ,He /developed, rheumatics later,, arid had'to bo; placed .in, tlio,hands of a veterinary /.surgeon./ J.. Cameron will. ; probably return to the' Jboinihion.by,way of Auckland this Waipu and Kiatere are, to be left in Australia, for the present; and, il Ikon IB' well enough to go oyer; in the spring, ;they ;may'bo ; raced'again.... '-; ■;'The Caulfield Cup,winner of 1904—Mur- , ."'been : figuring 'in: a now role." Ai ,' 'th6l.BijoU.'',Theatrp, t . Molbourno, the ; Irish ; .'tomMy;., ''S\Veet/'County Kerry,".,; is/,/ being ' played,'; and' a'moh'g! "the .'stage rsconbs is '. o smithy,' in! which real .horseshoes .are. : fitted '.toSii'' J l[ve^ahihwl , ( -.';;Thc'.equihd;':who''Jias, iii? feet;'', ndjlfti'te'd.'/there -is ,/Munmir,! and-;if>v if • stated .'that he submits-'td the operation/ ai quietly as if'ho had been all his life. ; on the ' stage. ;■'■''',! .■..'.■'.:■'.., /'Oyv •'■ i-f. "■.'.■!• '■>-.''■''■'■.■<