NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1194, 1 August 1911, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[By Glencoe.]

TV. Young want over to Palmerston North, from Feilding yesterday, and schooled Merrie Lawn over hurdles. J. Hathaway's gelding went so badly that his proposed trip to Riccarton will not eventuate. Young leaves for the south to--night. Winiata and Glenmore, a hunter in J. Cameron's Feilding stables, arrived in Wellington late last evening, and will be shipped south on the Mararoa to-night. Gold Lace, who is to go to tho stud, was shipped south last night. So far it is not Known whether , she is to visit Charlemagnn 11, Varco, or Downshire.

Owing to the absence of Mr. T. H. Lowry, who is on a health-seeking trip, no date has yet been fixed for the departure of Bobrjkoff for Sydney.

J. Ayers, trainer of Bracken, was anxious to jump the Epaulet gelding, and, during the course of the Trentham meeting, he consulted the owner on the question. The latter, however, set his faco against the proposal, and the horse will be kept to flat racing. In addition to the Porirua and Endeavour Lodge teams, the racehorses .Toanpra, Odessa, and Ahuapai were shipped south' last night by the Maori. On the fame boat were jockeys H. Telford, T. Pritchard, W. Ryan, E. Murtagh, and B. Hatch. It is stated that there is every probability of A. Hall taking North East to Sydney very shortly. This will explain tho chestnut's absence from Riccarton, where it looked as though he would be sure to win a race. There seems to be no doubt that jockey W. H. M'Lachlan intends to again settle in Australia, as he has cabled "Sol" Green, asking for the mount on Comedy King in the next Melbourne Cup.

M. M Grath has gone on to Melbourne with his horses, Zealand, Gunboat, and Tumut.

A promising two-year-old at Hastings is the youngster by Merriwee—Brown Alice, an inmate of T. Quinlivan's stable.

F. Wootton and D. Maher were having a great tussle for the jockey premiership at the time the mail left England, and a win at Newcastle on Juno 22 brought the former level with his rival, each having i won fifty races this, season. In winning percentage, however, Maher was well ahead of Wootton, but both were behind W. Saxby, whose record to Juno 1C was 25 wins for 101 mounts. W. Huxley was eighth in the winning list, and S. Wootton fifteenth. Tho letter's services have not been greatly in demand, his mounts totalling a little more than a fourth of his brother's for the same period. Frank Wootton will be a very rich man at an early age, which draws attention to the fact that Harry Luke, <it tho age of 64, had, with his wife, to find refugo in Wilksden Workhouse last month. Luke was onco one of England's prominent jockeys, among the races won by him Wing the Two llionsnnd Guineas on Petrarch, and the Cambridgeshire of 1883 on Bendigo, a 50 to 1 chance. Luke refers to his present position as "an ignomrnous finish." It is reported that W. H. M'Lachlan, was severely cautioned at Manchester for not keeping a straight lino wiih the filly by Cherry Tree from St. Tves, on whom ho won the Summer Breeders' Foal Plate. The stewards iu England are much more strict than those here in seeing that jockeys keep strictly to the "rule of tho road." Just nt present, around the=o parts, it is pretty much a case a! "do as you please," and we had an instance of this at the recent meeting at Trenthnm.

FIXTURES. August 8, 10. and 12—Canterbury J.C.'a Grand National.