NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 92, 12 January 1921, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS

By Glencob. Acceptances for Wellington and Foxtoii are due on Friday. Nominations for Taranaki and Egmont are also due on Friday. Handicaps for Pahiatua should make their appearance on the same day. F. Davis is bringing the two-year-olds Soldier’s Love and Five-Eighths to the Trentham meeting. The fbrmer, who is the property of Mr. D. M'Leod, will race in the Wellington Stakes and the latter in the Nursery Handicap. Eleus and Silver Peak are coming up from Invercargill for the Wellington meeting, and now that it is known the former is to start he will probably become a much-discussed candidate, for he is not overburdened in being asked to cany 7st. 71b. When he finished second in-the Metropolitan Handicap Eleus can-ied 7st. 81b.

The Highden'- cast-off, Sedd-el-Bahr, was very near his end the other day. C. Gieseler made up his mind to shoot him. but F. Shaw offered to take him, and he was promptly given away. Windgalle are his present trouble. Satisfaction first ran for C. Gieseler at the Southland meeting nine months and a half ago, and haa started 2(1 times in his colours, being 17 times in money and winning £1253 in stakes. His figures are six wins, eight seconds, three thirds, three times unplaced. The Riccartou mentor, F. D. Jones, is bringing Malaga north for the Wellington meeting, and T. H. Gillett will make the trip with Foo Chow and Volkovo. The reported sale of Flight Commander did not eventuate after all. The wouldbe purchaser wanted the half-brother to Balboa before he won at Marton, but H. Telford would not let him go until after the meeting, so the deal was cried off.

Solfanella and Militaire were both a trifle sore after the holiday racing, so they have been sent to Porirua to get the benefit of the salt water. The pair will race at Trentham next week. Owing to the unsatisfactory nature of the Wairoa bar, which prevented the boats arriving with the horses, the race meeting which was to' have been opened yesterday has teen postponed until tomorrow and Saturday.

Amythas is again giving' his trainer bother, and he pulled up lame after a short sprint on Saturday. His stable companion Euripo-s is also sore, and is an unlikely starter at the Wellington meeting, , , ~ J Reports from Greenmeadows state that Sasanof is going on the right way in his preparation, and if the weight is suitable Mr. W. G. Stead intends racing him at the Takapuna meeting this month- , , Geoffrey, the winner of the Shortlana Plate at the Auckland Cup meeting, was got by the 6006-guinea yearling The Sybarite, who was touched in the wind and never rr.ged. • . , A gold cup valued at 200 sovs is to be attached to the stakes for the next Sydney Cup. It will rank as probably the richest trophy ever offered in connection with a race in Australasia. Sungleam, the winner of both two-year-old events on the D.J.C. Summer programme is rather an attractively-bred sort. She was got by Sutala from Sunglow, by Multiform from Otterden, and hence ciaims as her dam a sister to Bomform and half-sister to Martian. Sutala was got by Elysian from Lady Ite s «’f> by St. Leger—Musket Maid, 'by Musket, and so belongs to a short-pedigreed Acceptances for the Wellington Trotting Club meeting close with Secretary R. W. Short on Friday, at 8 p.m. A Press Association telegram from Wanganui states that ns an outcome of an inquiry held yesterday by the W nnganui district committee, the three months disqualification imposed on F. S. Easton, of Foxton, and one month’s disqualification on W. J. Trask, in connection with the racing of the 'horse Stevens m 1913, bv Trask, while the same was a disqualified horse (having teen disqualified under a man named Wright; in 191-', Easton is lodging an appeal with the Racing Conference on the grounds that the verdict was again-t the weight of evidence. and that no offence nor corrupt practice under the Rules of Racing was proved to have been committed.