NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 93, 14 January 1919, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By GI,ENCOE.] • Vagabond and Form Tin havo boon scratched for all engagements at the Wellington Racine Club's Summer Meeting. While at Elterelie the two-year-old Warplane contracted, a cold, but he is now himself again, and has resumed work at Awapuni. ' ■ The well-known Pcildine trainer J Cameron has BhiEted hie team to Marton, ■where ho will in future train them. At the Hentono Christmas carnival Molyneux, -who is uow, owned by the Hastings trainer J. 11. Cameron, was well backed in the Maiden Handicap, in which he finished second, but as his rider failed to draw the weight the horse was disqualified, and J. 11. Cameron was fined for not seeing that the jockey carried his; lcad-baK. At the same meeting Lingerie was a runner, in the Hentope Plate, in which , sho failed to get a> place, . .'.- Ifurrumboena, who is' owned by Mr. V. O'Neill, formerly of Palmorston North, scored in the Mentone Purse last month, and the following week ho asain prevailed in the. January Welter Handicap at Flemington. . ■•• • ■ Amongst the runners in the" 'Welter - Handicap at Flemington on Now Year's Das' wae tho ancient . New Zealand gelding De Gama. • The son of Tasco. how iver, did not improve on any of his rerent -showings, , and he , was not mentioned. In tho report of the running. '..-.. That useful,two-year-old.Hotana. -winner

of the' A.R.C...Welcome'Stakes, hna been nominated for the two-year-old events at the CDiniuK Takapuna Meetine. Sir Fanciful and Miss Jlimic worn to leave for -Wellington last evening. Miss Mimic is by Hiinttiihar—Comiterreit, and ■has not yet raced. The lliccarton trainer, T. H. Gillctt, scored three more wins'at the llokitilm Meeting,- Morton, Tip l : l), and Achilledcs being the succpssful lierloiuierc while the member!)'of .the team were four times second and three times third. With, iiyo days 6f tho Wus.t Coast circuit disiroscd of, "Glllctt's horses " ; liave won thirteen races, besides uecuriiiß second placo eight times, and third place-, six times.' •Tho Hiitt trainer, D t Nyhan, has several maidens-in work in view of the Wellington Trotting .' Olu.b's Aiiuiial Moetiiij;, amongst, them being l.'caco, Dark Boy, anil Clarion Chimes. .The four-year-old illly Jlolly Chimes, also ft member of Nyhan s 'teiim, : 'is- likely to sport silk'at the same fixture. '.' : '■' .

Two-year-olds figure very prominently In-'tho: Wellington Stakes, to be decided at the Wellington' Racine Club's MeelinK this- jsumth, Tiut" thoy will have a serious contract: to shake oil the attentions of Gloaming. Though Mr. O. D flreenwood's triple Derby winner has demonstrated'that he is tho best of his age over a inile and a hftir, tho nopular l)e----lief is that-his forte is spriuliiif!, and in the south something smart is expected from liim over-, five furlongs. . . .Surveyor's record now reads:—Six starts, four wins and a second.' Up to the -present ho , has-'Wpn 230U'sovs in stake money.

Vascular, 'according to a southern writer, is an unlikely starter at. (he South Canterbury Meeting, sis he lius liot been worked'for. 6ome days, ■ Glendower and Killjoy have ■ resumed work'. Glemlowcr lightened up while at Ellerslie, but Killjoy looks all tho.better for the triii: ■ '■ • Bombproof fell while dolno- steady pacing on Thursday, and has,had etriugluilt ever since. • ■ ...

Marc Anthony; who won the Great Autumnllandicapin 1916, lias resumed work, and it .is thought that he might stand another preparation. •

It is a rare occurrence, in tl|ese. days to find -a horse running threo bard races In " succession',' but - such happened last month at a small New South Wales meeting. A horso called Piedmoro won • the Novice Handicap, and was then saddled up. for the following event—a welter. In this' ■he' ran- a deadiheat with .LI Light. The pair ran-off again, a dead-beat resulted, and. the owners decided to halve the 'stake..- Li Light ran four times at the mooting-for' two wing and two dead-heats.

■• Further news of the placing of Panacre instead of Sydney Damsel in third uosi" tion in the Villiers Stakes, run at Randwick last 'month, came to hand by the last mail.- The A.J.O. paid investor!) on tho totali3ator ou both Panacre and Sydney Pamsel—the totalisator at Eandwicli pays out .'on'the first three horses—and also gavo ' tho owner of "Sydney Damsel the third stako money, whioh was awarded to •Panacre by the error. Tho judge's costly mistake made a difierenco.of about £1900 to tho club. It seems as if the mistake was oaused through the judge not being 'ablo to eet a clear view, the second horse on the outside being only a head in front of Sydney Damsel, and thus obscuring tho latter'a colours.

■ A winner at the recent Port Adelaide Meeting was. tho ' Eototawai-bred Probation . (Downshire-Culmination, by San Francisco-Stopfeldt). Probation was sold last August to go to. Australia, and this is her , firet success since leaving Mr W E., Bidwill's. ownership. The Martian ■ mare Bee ran two steri, lu FJ a , ce . s in Sydney recently, when eliq finished in a place in botli tho Summer Cup and Tattersall's Cup. In tho Summer Oup, ridden by W. It. M'Laohlan, she was beaten a head by another Zealander, in Arch Mnrella. -Bee hag not been successful since eho won tho Dunedm Oup: in 1917.. ' •• .