NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 56, 29 November 1919, Page 12

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By Glencoe.) The Feeding meeting will take place to-day. The weather was fine yesterday and the course should be in good order. Racine will commence at noon with the Trial Plate, the starters, in which nru required to be ridden by apprentices. The whole of the accentors nre likely to start, and the well-fancied division may include Rcparoa, War Baby, and Valley l>ose. The last-nametl was a place-getter at Gisborne, and the form reads good, as the winner, Heatliermoon. showed up well at Tnkapuna. :' Combustion, 'Cello, Zeus, Torps, and Tuticorn will be scratched for the Hack Hurdlesi" A\Tiiro and Garrj' Owen ivill ivqrry each other in tho first paTt, land this may enable Rienzi to come' from behind and score. Yankeo ,Tack lias only jUst come in from a spell, and he may not be , ready to Ken out the two miles in the Spring Hurdles. The iasne may lie between Gang Awa', list. 91b., and Maraetotara, 10ft. 1211) The last-named has a. big pull in tho weights, and this should tell in her.favour at the finish. , .. For the Flying Stakes, Hymestra may be tho actual favourite. The cheetmit looks as well as ever ho did, imd he is hitting out freely in work. He has become fract : ons at the barrier, and invariably got badly away in his rocee in Melbourne. If ho jumps out cleanly lie should be very hard to dispose of. Demos and Bonny Briar will also be well in the market.

S"ub is exceptionally well handicapped in the big event, but he may not l>e at home on the 6inall course, and generally he shows his best form on big tracks. Dusky Eve appears to have plenty of weisht, but his connections are very confident. Athens II stays well, and cannot be left out of calculation?.' First Salute is a possible, ns his Riccarton form was 'good. The Held for the Stakes will probably cons'st of Silver Link, Croesus, Acre, Affectation, Ermine, Listowel, and TeaFares. Silver Link has Men racing very well of (ate, and hor form in the Electric Plate entitles her to every consideration, for this event.

The two top-u«ght,s may be found to hold, tho key to the situation in the ICiwitea Welter Handicap, and of the others. Kipling ,may be suited by the turns on the course. The chestnut gelding: ran fourth in the Joakey Club Handicap* at Rxcarton.

There is n field of 24 horses, in the Fitzroy Hack Handicap, and the majority of them will go to the post, The favourite may be the Treiitham - winner A<hnyra, while there will be plenty of sunnort for Russet.

Tim summer meeting of the Auckland Trottincr Club will be held on December 27, 30, and 31. Nominations for all handicap events and final payments for the Great Northern Derby, 1919-20, close on Friday, next.

The annual meeting of the Hamilton Racine Club will be held on the Claudelands course. Hamilton, oh February 7 and 9. Tho full programme, will be found elsewhere in our .columns.

The four-year-old Happy Captain, by Treadmill—Funhaven, has rejoined Cutis Bros.' nctivo. team at Riccarton, after a lengthy spell. The Australian-bred mare, Furling, bv Downshire—Lady Ranfurly, has boen put into work at Riccarton by F. Holmes, who purchased her at the dispersal of tho late Mr. A. W. Rutherford's. team early this year.

Royal Irish lias proved a little gold mine to J. Williamson, for tho enrninps of the son of Soult now total 6omewhero about The trebling was bred by (ho late Mr. J. B. Williamson, father of the present owner, and is now .12 years of age. He has been a most consistent performer, nnd although ho cannot bo called a horse with a delicate constitution, like the majority of tho Soult tribe he requires very little. work, savs "Whalebone," and it is probably this fact that has caused him to be somewhat under-rated, for under-rated ho undoubtedly i 6. Bourlnnir, tho half-brother by Beznnian to Balboa, fell in tho Ozone Handicap at Caulfield recontlv. and fracturing hi<= shoulder had to be destroyed. Tlio four boxes enfrneed for Mr. T. H. Lowrv's horses, at the AucVlmd Summer Meeting hare been, cancelled, 60 that the Wawlcp's Bev ■ pnliurs ,r "'^ not b» seen out et Kllerslie next, month. At flice.irton F. o'irMw !« brenking in n well-grown gelding by Glcnapp from Blast,