THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3114, 19 June 1917, Page 8

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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So far all Shrill's winning efforts hiive hecn achieved over short courses, but her owner evidenlly thinks tho imported marc will Htay, an be has entered her for the .Melbourne Cup.

Wriling to a Melbourne friend, Mr. H. J. Watt, owner of the Brisbane Cup winner Bunting, Stilton that tho son of All Black mid Jtncl I'lumc just manacod to Btrucgli' homo in the hi? Queensland event, in which he unluckily broke down ■iliont 200 yards from tbo post. It was Mr. Wall's Intention to enter BuntiiiK for nil tho important sprint: handicaps to ho run in this Stat.e, but in consequence of the horsn. goinc iiiuiss he had been oßlicrd lo refrain from nomiiitttinß.

Word from Auckland states that Waimai and Co. aro not to mnkc (ho trip to Australia. Tho abandonment of tho pronosed Irin to Australia Is largely , duo to the fact, that soma, of tho.owners of the team cannot, arrange for passports.

All interesting wiiinei' at' the rerent Queensland Meeting wan Chlpllly, an Euc-lisli-hrrii grandson of Oarbino. 11. was only a small race Hint' fell lo Chipilly, but tho interesting fact hound up in' bis pedigree is that his chief ancestors hold a very high place in tho records of racing. His fiirc. .Spearmint, won the Dorhy and Grand Prix dr Paris, while his dam, Pretty Polly, has her name enrolled amongst, winners of llifi Onn Thousand Guineas, Oaks, and fit. TjPgrr Ktakes. Carbine'n winning stake record was £29.476. Spearmint won £17.285. while Pretty Polly captured £35.827. Identified with such ancestors, Chinllly is mire of a wido advertisement, but no high note is struck with nsard to his own capabilities.

W. JI. M'Lachlan, who rode Bunting In the Brisbane Cup, hud previoimly won tho race on JtoNari. The crank Sydney horseman has a great record, in Cup races, and in addition to the races named above, he has won the Melbourne Cup twice, tho Australian-Cup once, tho Caulßcld Cup, Moonce Valley and Villiamstown Cups ihrre limes, .the Adelaide, Summer Cup. and Taftcrsall's Cifp onco each.

The New Zenland-owned Bimcter has been ontored for tho FlyinK Handicap, to be run' at Menangle Park tifday, hut as the class thero is yery weak and thu Ala Ist or horse woul dget« a very oig weight,, ho is not likely to be started.

Two Lights, who is owned by a Napier sportsman, was heavily supported for the open Handicap at tho Handown Park races on Juno 9, but tho Grafton eeldins, when winning easily, was beaten out of the stake by an outsider, owinz to the .carelessness of his rider.

The last has beeu seen of that Rood steeplechaser Bnllawarra on the turf. Hβ has been pensioned oil and will spend tho rest of his days on his owner's station in Queensland. Durinß his oareor tho St. Simon gcidiuc won twelvo races, includinc tho V.A.T.O. Australian Steeplechase, in which he carried 12st. 111b. He was subsequently sent to England and competediunsucccesfully in tho Liverpool Grand National at Aintreo, and a, few othor crosscountry events on the English turf. On his return ho won fiteeplechascs at Williainstovvn under 12st. 131b., and tho Select Steeplechase at Mooneo Valley with 12st 71b. Besides being a good .iumper, Bullawarra showed pace on tho flat, and won in stakes about £3500.

Gold Wave, winner o£ tho Hurdle Race at Sandown Park on Juno 9, is an aged New Zealand-hrca mare by Golden Knight (son of Wallace) from Eipplf, by Pcrkin Warbeck 11.

J. Scott's maro Itoneora is being kept up to the collar at Trentham aud will be a runnor at Hastings next week. At the Hawke'a Bay Meeting the hajk races are both run over a distance, and this will suit tho Toy Gun mare. She is to bo ridden by the capable Wanganui horseman W. Price, who seems to get bettor results from her than do any of tho other riders. A Press Asociastion message from Melbourne states that Tim Doolan has been scratched for tho Wanda, Steeplechase.