NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 91, 11 January 1919, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By Glencoe.] The. postponed spring meeting of'the . Feilding Jockey Club is to take placo i to-day. At noon the sport will'commence. . with the Hack Hurdles, and after his good showing in ;open company, at Awapuni backers may make Zola, a strong.' order. - i In the Flying Stakes Nystad is top weight, but though he has his Awapuni win to recommend him, the Highdeir horso does not usually " show up- well under big weights, and the pace-set by. i; the light-weights may worry him.,, Eoyal , Chef raced well behind' Croesus at' Strat T ford, but it is an'open - secret that Rawa-' i kore was. unlucky .there, owing to her 1 saddle slipping,•• and in. well-informed; quarters she is much fancied. Maioha, ■Lady General,' and Demo 3 are spoken i of as unlikely runners.- ■' . For. the Trial' Plato .the - good-looking >■' Borealis ■ will bs -well-in the r market—At ! ishhuTst he-finished fast after .getting , off badlyv pe is-.Bred to. gallop, being' by California from the Auckland mare ■ Austerlitz.' There is -a classy-field in the Stakes, and with Bindle, Surveyor, Croesus, : Creiiides,-. Warplane,. and Pennon as likely starters a good race can be looked f- for.,. The;:draw for^.positions.; plays an \ important-part-in V tance. at .Feilding,'.tout.,, maymachine t : ' . .Tn.,the- Apiti -Hack..Handicap,; 7 fu.r-, ( longs, backers, divide their'opinions' ,•. 'between Tigritiya 'and Sonnino, with a ' preference for the latter, who appears l 'to be a very useful horse, judging by the •' \ easy manner in which he vanquished, Jhis field at Marton. , ..- i v __., - There are not-many--runners for the'f -. Manchester Handicap; and. as it-.is.iin-. •.->derstood E. Johnson will run Bewi .Poto 1 in preference to .Henry, Clay,; the., top weight may be; a solid order. -He will ' be a better horse for the two races he had at Awapuni,. and when stripped in ; . his best he is a class above the others. Several of the acceptors for the Chel- ' tenham Hack Handicap are engaged 1 earlier, in the day, but no matter how ' the field is made up, Zabism and Eed Sisnal will be sure of attention. The concluding event is .the Kiwitea » Welter Handicap, and the-well-fancied division will include Monster and Bronk Delaval. , 'It is expected • that Kanv will be_ a ~ starter in the Wellington Clip, iri_which M event she will be ridden by B. Deeley. ; This will i necessitate another horseman ■ being''found for,Eed Eibbon. » i The CJ.C. Stewards Handicap winner V-Michaela is being sent-North- f<?r. the ' i 'iopeii sprint events at Trentham._ The ! i Eoke'bv mare will be ridderi by C. Emer. son