NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 53, 26 November 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

TBY GMNCOB.I

The spring meeting of tlio . Feildmff Jockey Olub-a one-day affair tins season -will bo held on Saturday next. One prominent candidate .in the Melbourne Oup was guarded during the night 'by an attendant armed with a rovolvor. No suspicion was felt V the trainqr, but .the action wbb taken as a precautionary measure. Acceptances Tor tho first day's handicaps nt the Woodvillo Meeting and entries for tho Maidon Plate close with Secretary W. A. Lyon nl 8 p.m. on Wednesday next. The local owner, Mr. A. R. Durant, intended being present at tho Karamu dispersal sale to see it ho could piok up a horse in training to carry his colours, hut at tho last moment business arrangementis prevented him from making tho trip. Two Auckland Oup candidates in Uncle Ned and Colonel Soiilt finished first and second in tho big handicap at Takapuna on Saturday. Tho winner had to undergo the ordeal of a protest before his backers collected. It was reported after tho Karamu sale that tho new owner of Hymcstra was Mr. W. R. Kemball, owner of fanub, Nanna, Mullaine, and other horses. Tho Masterton owner deserves success, for tlio price does not stop him wheu ho likes a horse. The old steeplechaser Black Northern is occasionally used at Hlcrslio to give green horses a lead over tho schooling fenocs. Last week, when ridden by A. J. M* ll '; he fell heavily at the stone wall, out neither horse nor rider wore injured. Tho Comedy King colt Seigneur, purchased on behalf of a North Island owner at 825biis., is from the Now Zealand-bred mare Our Queen, a half-sister by Birkoilhead to The Aborigine, Maori King, ana King Hilly. Our Queen is a daughter or the Slcimiiik marc Indian Queen. On tho racing truck Our Queen was not the equal of the other progeny of Indian Queen. The last-named was only mated with Birkenhead once. While riding exercise at Ellerslio last

week, J. O'Shea. Eot a fall oD Empire, but luckily ho was unhurt. Toa Tore, who figures in tho Auckland Cup, has also been entered for the 1 lying Handicap, run at New Plymouth oil- the sumo day. , The New Zealand Cup mare feinapis, who has missed uvico to tlin imported Al Black, is this seasou being mated with Wolawa. Tho latter is the she of Pontoon. ' „ . . Shining Light, winner of tho Cambria Handicap at tho Taknminn, Meeting on Saturday, is one of the imported Marblo Arch's stock. Ho is trained by F. Steumnu at Ellerslie, and in his two previous starts lie filled a minor place. At Avoudale on the second day ho chased his stablo companion Kilbeggan home, and at Ellerslie he finished third to Informal ami Hineamarii in tho A.R.O. Welcome Stakes. The well-known horseman, A. Oliver, who is now a bombardier in tho artillery, writes interestingly" from Sling Camp. Oliver has just finished a vacation in London, and expected to leave for France a few days «fter the posting of ids letter. Hymestra, who changed hands last wools at 2050 guineas, should not be a dear colt at that price. He is very favourably handicapped in the Railway Handicap at Ellerslie, and there are several valuablo welght-for-ago engagements in front of him.