THE TUEF

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 70, 16 December 1919, Page 11

THE TUEF

WOTES AND COMMENTS ' (By Glbncoe.) Entries for tho principal cvonts at the coming Wellington Cup Mooting closo with Secretary A. E. Whyta at fl p.m. on Friday next. The Taumaninui meeting, which waa postponed on account of the general election, will take place on Friday. The Trentham trainor J. Lowe, with the Auckland Cup oandidato Mascot, also Motuihi and Wake, left for Ellcrslie by tho Main Trunk express last evening. An Australian visitor who wont out to see tho Endeavour Lodgo candidates this week, lefers to tho Martian marc Mascot as the fittest animal ever he gazed upon. The Cup candidate is certainly very well at tho present timo, and her trainer has high hopes that sho will repeat her success of lost year. The All Black—Gossip colt recently purchased by Mr. W. Higgiiiß, has a badly-capped hock, but his owner makes light of the trouble and does not intend to hivvo it. opsryted upon. A recent addition to A. Godfrey's team at TauiiGrenikau is a perfectly turned filly by All Black from Martian Princess. Sho has just been handled, and will go into work about March. Sho is the property of Mr. Geo. Humo, who lids alivafly refused lOOOgns. for her. Tho Martuiborough sportsman has a filly foal by the Imported Absurd from the some mare, which he has promised to lea:« to a well-known Wellington doctor, who intonds shortly racing in his, own i;ame. Jockeys A. and R. Heed leave for Auckland Way. They will rida at tho Taumarunui meeting on Friday and at Ellcrslie on Cup day, after which they will return to Palrnerston North for the second day of the Manawatu meeting. Mr. T. H. Lowry returned from Sydney by the Mooraki yesterday, and he goes on to Napier Way. Mr. Lowry's trip to tho other slide was of a business nature. 11, J. Mason with Gloaming, Karo, and Rossini passed through Wellington yesterday on hie way to Auckland. H.' Cutte, with the Chokobore team, is duo to arrive this morning. Somo of the Melbourne visitors at present in Wellington were disappointed at the absence of Survevor from his Ellcrslie engagements. They were looking forward to a meeting between him and Rossini in the Islington Plato and Great Northern, Derby, and declare that tho ohestnut colt had a lot of bad luck in his Melbourne engagements, and if at his best he would bo sure to. give Rossini the Taco of his life. Stan. Beid went to Auckland yesterday. He will ride Exploror in his Ellerslie engagement's.. Tho ■ WftiraTapa-trained Prince Hal is under orders to raco at the Manawatu meeting. Prince Hal was sufforing from dental troubles when he. sported silk at Trentham in October, but these haw now' beon attended to and tho three-year-old is doimg well. One of the entries in tho New Zealand Trotting Derby of 1922 is a filly by Logan Pointer from a Martian inare. The New Zealand Trotting Dorby, of m> sovs., to be run in 1922, closed with 111 entries. Subject to tho Wellington Trotting Club being able to make the necessary onnngements, Author Dillon and Cathedral Chirnea will probably meet over one mile, with a ilving start, at the meeting of the AVellington Trotting Club on' January 22. The ex-New Zealand trainer D. J. Price, who has been a resident of Melbourne for some years, intends settling down in Adelaide. Mr. T. H. Lowry has disposed of the last of his horses in training to Mr. W. Higgins, owner of Parorangi. These included tho black ~colt Island, by Finland—All's Well, and the ohestnut colt Blackhead, by Finland-Gossip. This pair will go into A. M'Aulay's stable at Tauherenikau. , Mr. Frank Armstrong, the Hawitos Bay sportsman, contemplates a trip to England early in the new year. Loyal Arch, who went to Riccarton to raco at the Cup meeting, but was unable to start on account of jarring the tei/dons of a front leg, has been fired on the- injured limb. Fierv Cross has been slightly lame in front for some days. Tho trouble is said to bo a splint. Arlington was schooled over fences on Thursday and jumped very well. Ho is to be shipped to tho West Coast on Wednesday, and everything points to the trip being a most profitable one for his owner. Followers of J. M'Laughlin's stable have not been having a good, run for some time past. Bed Signal was heavily supported in the Hack Weltor Handicap on tho second day at Woodville, hut though she ran a really good raco she was unlucky in being up against a useful sort in'Reporoa, who was in receipt of 301b. . , Tigritiya and Humbug accompanied the Jeffc'rd team to Woodville, and the pair were in the saddling paddock on the first day. Tho chestnut colt has a lot of admirers and ho looks well. There is every likelihood of the exNew Zealander.'Mr. T. M'Grath, entering the imported Ethiopian and Hoprlg for the principal events at the Wellington meeting. At tho present time' there are several vfaiting Melbourne sportsmen here, and they report that M'Grath is contemplating the trip.