NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2109, 28 March 1914, Page 13

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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Tho Southland meeting takes .place on Wednesday and Thursday best. Very goad acceptances have been made for tho first day's handtonps. ■ There will bo racing at .Alasierton on Thursday a.-nd Friday next, Up till 9 p.m. oil Friday next Mr, A. E. Wli.yte, secretary of tho Wellington Raehig Club, will receive .entries far liiiG AuttVmu Meotiiig to bo. held on April 23 and 25. Weights for the Waijiukurau meet- ■ ißg, to bi> held <m Baster a.ro due oa Mosday next. G, l'rieo lias returned from his trip to AuoMa-nd,- and states that fyp. has teased fSattlo Abbey his breeder., . -Mr, G. M, Carrie, mr his racing career, rrieo says that liattlo:Abbey.is a fine*, locking horse, but liig knees havo been a source «f trouble in tile 'past. .'The Hijjhden trainer is hopeful that tha good tracks at •A..wiipi:iii n ill assist .Bi'OiWa's brother tg keep- Soiim}, Mr, Donald M'Leod, owner of Zens I ant] Tavistock, is leaving on a trip to England nest week, aiitt it will not be able to see his horses -race at Etlers.lie. Tho death of tho'veteran horseman AV. 11.' Smith removes cue cf tha bestknown %wcs on Sydney and Slollioiiriie racecourscs. Smith was getting on for fifty, but it was the general opinion that he had nothing to learn from the present-day riders. Ho has { ridden tho winner of .nearly every im- j porta-ut handicap to tho two principal States, and Inst' year, whew he'scotej'l in the Canlfiekl Cup, lie downed a very hot favourite in Hiuia Car'ovna. Smith j leaves a, widow and two children.

Tba fatal accident in the lios.eh.il} Cup this year recalls tlio fact that another well-known jockey in 'f k . Clayton lost Ms Jifi! in tho same race when Loyal Blud eanie down with hini in Barle> Brew's year. When Uoscmead Wan, and Colliirit, ridden % L. fi. Hewitt, ran second, there was also a fiiflash-ftpj ■Oiu! th-o racehorso Sleeper was killed, The Auckland horseman, 3. Conquest, who was severely hurt at tho lust Walißunui mooting, has been riding, work for some time* past at- fcllerslic, and •will be in the, saddle again a.t Masterton Eokt week, _ The Porirua liofsea Stepney, Aratiatla, atid Hoopa& wore'railed direct to Mastcftoa at tho conclusion of tho liangitikei Msertin.g, Dearest Was soro after her race on tlio opening day, aivd was sent home. Bridge- scored his first win is Australia ivheii lie gb-t home in tlio Jii : m;pc.-rs' l?kit Race at Sasdowii Pa,yk on Jilareii 18. As- a matter &f fact, this was his first victory s-faeo lb took tlio New Zealand Cap iis a four-year-old, i-ii' Novo®' aer, IUIU. Ho put up a tw-o miles, rccord for Australasia on tlr;v£ occasioii, when his tiflie whs 3mi:>. ?sscc, l'he lliceartoii 1-io.rsesnan, 1., Hagerty, had quite a fteki toy at the Mount Somen Slid Swiilgtaril Meetings, whining traoli of tho foiti: flat races decided. ■Styras, Calais, 'fatroM, and Pa-tran-liymic, nil hj- Pptromis, won five rae&a between iiieisi at tlio dpuiiake Meeting on St. Patrick's Daj"> Calais being the double winner. ,

An Australian exchange reports thai ; J. Olsen,. \vb<> wont over to_ i-110 other side to ride-Sister Radius jn;3ifer cpg&getnettts, rodo 1% Top. to victory iti the- Trial Handicap at Kyjioton recently. There wore seven minors, and Tip Top, starting favourite mado all the running in a field of sovcii, Night Walk being second. Tho winner, who conic s fiom New Zealand, is a three-year-old brother to the ildpctouti Gup winnfer Gunboat, by Calibre (son af Ligl)t Artillery) from Hippie, by Parkin Witfbeck 11. Tip Top wis bred at Long* boacli by Mr. J. 0. N. (irigg. Eiriflmo ■is Jirr-sont being spelled at Gisborno. and iiicre Ts' little ciiaiico of him fulfilling his etiga.ge.men,t ill the Feilding Cup, to whish Tie has 9st. Tib. Ti:« isigh-prieed DowJisltiro—-I'nrity fs'tly purchased nl the Waikaftao Stud by the Messrs. Bickli'ford. Bros, baa been a regular worker at Trentham during the last lmintii, awl already sho lias been allowed to'slip along. '.Those w'lta havs seen her working describe her as a beautiful mover.