NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 87, 5 January 1918, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fBY GLENCOE.I

Entries for nil events to be decided at the i'auiatua Bacing (Jlub's annual meeting; close' with the secretary, .Mr. i>. T, Tiuncy, on Wednesday next. Some of the horses purchased at tho Karatnu dispei'Bal sale uucoecdod iu winning back some of their purchaso money duriug tho holidays. Uymestra was the most succossful, winning two races, and cicad-hcatiug in anothor. Belair won two races, whllo Bagdad ran second and third, ll'ylaus second, i'lano third,.and Torfrcda third, wore other placo-getters. linpediiucut, tho throo-year-old illly by ncinostbones-Kautuku, baa raced very consistently so far this season. In ton starts she has only beon twico out of a plaoo, having won flvo raoos, bcon second in two, hud third in anothor. Karo. a two-year-old full-sister, has won onco out of four Btarts. Sho is at present running out, as she is growing faßt. ,„..„„ A yearling full-sister to Desert Gold recently met with an accident, which will, it la feared, prevont her from racing. King Lupin, who won tho Suuimor Oup and doadheatod in tho Railway Handicap, is now soven years old, and Ims won i,bia in stakes. Ho has started 37 times, winning flftocn times, running second seven times, and third on three occasions. Mr. Haunon was recently asked to put a pnoo on tho son of Lupin, but replied: NoThe EugHsh-brcd borso I'olydamon, who won tho Chrifitmns Handicap and ran second in tho Summer Cup at Auckland, arrived in the Dominion last July. Ho Is by l'olymclus, from Damia. The •\re of I'olymolus (Oyllono) was a half-lrother to Grafton, who did so well at the stud in Long a ilanßo (Antnfronlst-TolcBcopo) is