NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2217, 1 August 1914, Page 14

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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'The'-Victorian Amateur Turf ( _ Club's favourite../. ■ ■ ' _ ■Melbourne (papers mention that Paoli of strone work on the. Cadfield-tracks, bo theMemwce gelding, inay-be^expected to race any day now. : The Bllerslie horseman, J. O'Shea, who 'dan "go to A scale at a very. handy• weight, h-as--refused-: several .temptuig offers and retainersfor next season. Though nothing definite is known on the subject,- it is pXble that he will finish up wearing thecoloura of .Mr. T. H. Lowrj. ;'Beacon : is ; still located, at Trentham, and:so; far, no arrangements have been completed for sending, him south, ihe Euroclydon-gelding has been Buffering .(Mi/idCW may not make the •'journey.' /"J.*;. '■■ -■":■■ ■ '" ■■' ; Jockeys who hove retainers for next W:-'Byan,.'the : Hon. ;J. D. Ormonds stables: •• d Emerson will wear the livery Greenwood, J. Olsen mil .• ' ' . .•■■dtfJThnrsday, atEiccartqn, Morning was ;giv«n,hto first jump since he won the .-Satioaol- Hurdles.- He only .went over a ■couple,of ••fences, but gave a good, display. ■ProßablT his trainer give him a school''overt half a dozen fences one day nect.week. • ■ , : . ■VconseSfiAt upon a, poor gallop with Troon,whoJ>adl/ defeated him. Stevedore is of" favour for the Winter ! Cup;i ! . ?rf l': ■' •-■ 1 •Jefvil"Ge'6rge went south last evening in .change.;.pf Eoyal Arms, :i and Grown . >.. . r . ;• .i'j. j]?.yQuailivan came down from •Has'tingV'ta'personally attend to the ship- ■ Sot;Sot; ited Book, Ringform and the Malstoi-tondiment fi y. ' The trio are to ;g6'iittp Frank' M'Grath's stabks at Ken•singtotu* '* * ' ' . \ • 'i - ,; Freniiently in years past tho winner , of 'the Trial" Hurdles at Kicoarton hne gone ■ou-'and scored in tfto• Grand National ■Hurdles.-' The horses- engaged, in both Vents tBM, year. are'Chcddnr, Morccameo, Braasfieldi : Diavolo, and Come. :; ' : Couirdering that-ho'was badly'left, at rthV.barticf, andithen only suffered a very .narrow.,.<lefeat by Admiral Sonlt in the Jumpers',,Elat Eace .at Bllcrslip, Ngatirn.anu.vlo»t.2lh.,. has not been unduly burdened iii tho Jumpers' Flat at Eiccar"ton" This'is the .same weight as he carat the Auckland meeting. ; Clvn°li3Ti'has l»en weighted at list. Gib. in'the.'AVonhcad Handicap at Eiccarton, but as the'i?oult horse is built on.small lines, his owner will probably decide to :start him in the Winter Cup, in which he has 9st. lllb. He has already been 'well supported for this race.

For a maiden pertemer Charlerose, 9st. 131]j., seems to have received his full share of "weight ; in the sis-fiiTlong hack race on the , opening day of.the C.J.C. Wintey.

There is still another payment for the three big events at Eiccarton, but present indications point to a recoi'd field contesting tho Winter Cup, and the winner, even if it!be the actual favourite, will give a Koud return, for so far none of tho candidates scorns to nvcrshiuluw the others,' and at least twenty of the runners scorn to possess excellent chances of gv{ce|s. In legajd to ,ftfi Steeplechase,

the issue is not by any means so open, and tho general opinion favours tlio four 'top weights. Tlio same may bo ivritben of tho National Hiuttles, with a slight preference for Morning and Kilmeny.

A Wellington owner priced the Wellealey Stakes winner Hymottiiis early this week, but so fat nothing has come of the negotiations.

It 'is expected that C. Price will have liig license renewed in time for the C.J.C. Winter 'Meeting. If this be so, ho mil probably have the mount on Kaniki in tho Winter Cup. ' . '

So far Darby Paul lias not started in a steeplechase, but it, is reported that ho is a proficient jumper over big fences, aud several times he has given good displays on the -Wanganni course. . His stable companion Kurnalpi, who is in the Enfield Steeplechase, ;is also a good jumper.i

Old Natinmi is shortly to go into work again, and he ivill later on be sent to the West Coast to race. His last trip there was most successful, and on one occasion, ho hod to be scratched owing to his rider being unable to obtain a sufficiency of lead to make up his w.eight. ■,