NOTES AND COMMENTS
fBl CrIdMCOH.I Friday next is au important date with owners, for ou that day acceptances must bo made for the Auckland, Taranaki, laratahi, ojid Hawkc's "Bay meetings. Nominations for the Wellington Cup Meeting close on Monday next. The programme is a stylish one, there being no race on it of less value thau 200 sovs. J. M. Cameron has already gone to Ellerslie with Kooya and St. Elmn. An : other Hawke's Bay candidate due north this week is the hurdle gelding Sleacombc. Lady Amai changed bawls recently, and will in futuro run in the same colours as Gold Fran, fjlie is now at Ellerslie in E. Pope's stables. , Nightwotch's full sister, Qlen Helen, who'looked likely to play iier part creditably in the two-year-old races in the autumn, is at present enjoying a run in tho paddock. Sir George Clifford's filly is suffering from an abscess 011 tho wither. Tile first of tho southern trainers to leave for Ellerslie will be R. J. Mason, who passes through to-morrow with Xanthos, Binieter, and Greenstreet. S. Wflddcll, with the Karamu team, leaves Hastings 011 the same day.. On Friday, G. Aynsloy, > with AVarstep, Snub, and Wardancer, and 11. Cutts with Good Hope, San Sebastian, AVisobird, and Flying Start, will embark, as will K. O'Donnell with The. Toff, .Wishful, Mountain Dream, and Halina,- and .1. AY. Loivo with Chakwnna and Menelaus. T. Quinlivan will leave with a big team 011 and on Monday the J'orirua, team, and F. / Cavmont with the two-year-old, Sweet Tippc-rary, will go north. At Taurnnga on Saturday tliq Koyal Fusilier mare Chime, who has not won a race for a considerable time, scored nnioagit a pow lot In llir. Flying Hand!cap, Those who ticisW, Iwhiuj har war*
Delenda, Jolie Fillc, and Signo. The whole quartet had started previously, at the meeting, ! J- H. Prosser has just concluded the purchase of a four-year-old hay geldiiigby San Fran from Basilisk, 'i'ho uatoc of Bedrock has been claimed for hifn, and ho will'probably be seen under silk at some of the holiday gatherings. Basil- ) isle was the dam of Ataalwa, who "won several races in the Porirua colours, and 1 was subsequently sold at a. big figure (o , D. J. Price to raco in Melbourne. The majority of backers have been very much astray in thciv calculations lately, and favourite after favourite has been going under with monotonous regularity. In discussing the matter recently one keen sportsman said ho did not know what to put it down to, but he thought the handicappers' work must bo improving. At some of the small meetings in bygone days a backer could set hvo or three horses with certainty, but tho ™ a 'l6r meetings were j ust as hard now as the big ones, .and, in fact, harder, for a backer could get a price at a big meeting like Eiccarton or Wellington, while tli9 favourites at other meetings generally paid under evens when they won, and lately- this has not been often. Even at Tnuranga on Saturday only two actual favourites scored, while some very' shortpriced ones failed, notably Self. This is tho reverse of the old orller, when backers used to swoop the board. The Downshire.gelding Seadown is still running out on his owner's place at Silverstreaiu. The knock ho got at liiccaTton lias almost disappeared, and the big fellow will be put into work almost immediately. He is to be entered for the hack events at the forthcoming 'Wellington meeting.. ■Though lie has 'won nearly every- im-portant-race in the Dominion, Mr. E. : . J.; Watt has not so far had his colours carried successfully in an Auckland Cup. This year Blackall—runner-up in the New Zealand Cup—will endeavour to right matters. - ' . - ' J. H. Prosser is unable to attend' the Auckland, meeting,, and his northern team will go in charge of H. M'Sweeney, who will ride Naupata and Kauwairoa in their engagements. , Prosser will do the Awapuni and 'llarton meetings' with another division.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2644, 15 December 1915, Page 9
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