THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 240, 5 July 1920, Page 6

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

By Glencob.

Acceptances for the first day'* handicaDS at the winter mcetinir of the Wellington ltaciug Olub close on Friday next at 9 u.m. Unless the embargo against tne c-arriago of racehorses is removed, no fewer than 21 horses will he unable lo get to ino coming Wellington meeting. The entries for the O.J .U. New Zealand Grand Nutional meeting will probably constitute an caw-record, as the nominations lor tno ail principal events total Ml. as compared with 'ilii last year. The local owner. Mr. W. Higgins. received cabled advice last week that one of his horses had scored in a valuable haudicau at Iho Ascot meeting m Kugland. binco then several otters have been made to nurcnase the youngster, wno ib trained by Stanley Woolton at Newmarket. llr. W. It. Kemball will be represented by a big team at the Trentham meeting. Tho local course had always been a happy hunting-ground tor the At the autumn meeting he won five handicaps with hie team. In some quarters Tame Fox is regarded ai nicely handicapped for the Parliamentary Handicap to be run next week. The ■ eon' of Yolnoue won at Wanganui on both days in heavy going, and he certainly looks like giving a good account of himself with lOat. lib. in the saddle. , Luckily the crack three-year-old Amvthas did not contract tho epidemic of strangles which has been prevalent at P.lccarton recently. A visitor from the south Btated yesterday that both Amythas and Jfuntard i'ot had kept clear of the trouble. Formerly the Winter Hurdles at the Wellington meeting was run over a twoif.ilo courße, but this year tho distance is two furloUEß further. This should Buit a good stayer like Kauri Kins, who is, in addition, ouite at homo in heavy eoinE. Ladogeur has been entered in both tho hack hurdles and the <i>jcn hurdles on the firht day of the Wellington meeting, but the Sir Laddo celdinir will probably be started in the Winter Huidlcs. lnwhch he has 9Bt. 121b. to carry. A. M'Donald, who broke his ■ collarbone when Polly Anna- fell in the Hunt Club Steeples at NaDier. expects to be well enough to ride at the Trentham meeting next week. Failintr Mb ability to take tho mount on All Over, the bav gelding will race in the Parliamentary Handicap. Comrade, winner of tho Grand Prix de Paris, costs lub owner, llr. P. Gilpin. £26 ss. as a yearline. Last aeason he was only started three times as a two-year-old and won on each occasion, the stakes secured amounting to £1.082. At, lateHt advice he had won a race as a three-year-old prior to his success at Paris, viz.. the Paradise Plate, worth £834, at Hurst Park (England). Turf history provides many instances of cheap horses winning valuable races, but the feat of tho 25-guinca yearling. Comrade, in accounting for the Grand Prix, worth well over £10.000, will probably furnish a new record in English and French racing chronicles. The Prince (nays a Melbourne writer) haß endeared himself to the Australian people because of his fondness for racing. He Bpent Quite a part of lu'b "week off" among the horses, and had ups and downs in the betting ring. On his lost day at . Flcmington he started well. He backed the winner of the first race at 3 to 1. He | was leaving the members' stand (he would not go near the Boyal box) after th" ''act when a returned soldier friend asked "Did you back that one Prince?" ''Yea'' said His Royal Highness, cheerfully, "I had two auid on him." . The ouid instead of "pounds:'- was a little unconscious touch that delighted the crowd. The bookmaker paid him in gold. He stared and thou remarked with a twinkle that "it was a long time since he had seen a sovereien." In the next race he also found the winner, at £15 to £45. In the following races lub luck- deserted him. and he denaTtcd a loser. Jlut 'he appeared to be in a merry mood. Several timea tho returned soldiers called tinn to ™>s he stood near the betting ring: and he always acknowledged the attention by courteously raising his hat. The appeals lodged by the jockeys L. H. Hewitt J. O'Shea. and E. 0. Itae againat their dißaualtftcnMon for broakino cniage- "! e ?ir i,*. 0 rlde at Avondale. are to be heard at Wellington at 10 a.m. on Thursday next, instead of on Wednesday.

V.R.C. MEETING

SANDULE WINS NATIONAL HURDLES. By Teloirapn-Press Alßociatlon-Oopyrlirni (Eec. July 4, 5.5 p.m.) Melbourne Julv 3. Tho followincr is the result of the GRAND NATIONAL HUKDLKS. of 1500 aova. Three miles. Sandule, by Sands of the Orient-Ule „ ."«• 21b (Williams) 1 BriElit Plume, by British fiteel-Minin. 9st. 131b (H Cairns) 2 Tullila'h. by Eitualist-EQualize,'9et. Ulb. _, . (Thompson) 3 There were nineteen starters. Tullilah was the quickest way. with Pistolicr and Suma next. Sandule took charee beforo they reached the bridge, and was followed by louehal. Merry Bob, and Tullllah. At the next jump Two Blues, Pistolicr. and Colonel Knut fell. Passintr the stand Captain W. and Mneon lor.t their riders, the latter falline and breaking his neck, handule waß never headed, and stalline off a bold hid by Brieht Plune. won bv two lenyths. Time. 1 smin. 418ec., a. record for the race. Beltane sot badly awav and finished fifth.