THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 302, 15 September 1921, Page 7

THE TURF

A.J.C. DERBY (Rec. September 14, 6 p.m.) . Sydney, September 14. Cupidon did a* taking mile gallop on the Randwick tracks in linin. (iaseu. During' the last six furlongs he was accompanied by Conitton, the distance being covered in Imin. 19Jsec. —Presa Assn. GLOAMING IMPROVING SCRATCHED FOR ROSEHILL ENGAGEMENT. (Rec. September 14, 8 p.m.) Sydney, September 14. Gloaming has been scratched fer Saturday’s Rosehill engagements, owing to the cold from which he is suffering. The gelding’s condition is improving.— Press Assn. NOTES AND COMMENTS By Glencoe. Owners and trainers are reminded that acceptances for the Otaki meeting close on Friday next at 8 p.m. Entries for all events at the Napier and Hastings spring meetings close on Friday at 8 p.m. The Pakuranga Hunt Club’s meeting will be held at Ellerslie on Saturday. The first event will bo run at 11.30 a.m. Tha Manawatu Hunt Club will this year race on the Feilding course. Its meeting will bo held on Saturday, and the first event will start at 11.45 a.m.

Mr. W. H. Ballinger has secured the lease of Royal Stag, who will undertake stud duty at Trentham, in succession to his grandsire. Treadmill, whose death was yeported. recently. The National Hurdles/ winner, Hylans, who was bred at iKaramu, but is now owned iri the South Island, has rejoined S. Telford’s Riccartoh team, after a long spell in the paddock. . , The locally-owned Trentham Rose and Hallucination are booked ‘to do the Ashburton, Geraldine, and Dunedin meetings.' A two-year-old will probably accompany them on the trip*south. Richmond Main has been reported lame on and off for some time past, and his withdrawal from his Randwick en.gagements was not unexpected. Probably Mr. John Brown’s champion will now go to the stud. Locally matters are very quiet in the sporting world, and the sole topic of conversation is the probable result of the Test match. The All Blacks can be dudbed tfie favourites, but'there is nothing like the, demand for them that there was in the previous Tests. When the last mail left Sydney, Loyal Irish was favourite for the A.J.C. Derby, but he was only one point shorter than Cupidon, and as the latter has won since and has the advantage of coming from •a strain more noted for producing stayers than Loyal Irish can claim, it is probable that ty. J. Mason’s representative has since supplanted Loyal Irish from the position of favourite, considering that he won in his first race with .the colours up. Another interesting item from -Sydney states that Veil, *the full (sister to Rational, also 'owned- by Mr. G. D. Greenwood, is sowing more pace than any of the youngsters trained nt Randwick.

The first of Mr. George Currio’s mares to foal this season is Holyrood, the dam of Absurdum, which has produced a filly to Absurd. \ Hymestra has been retired from the running path, and the Karamu-brcd son of Hymettus and Straga will bo used as a stud horse at Mastertori during the present season. When the racing stock of the late Hon. J. D. Ormond were sent up under the Hammer in 1917, Hymestra, then a three-ycar-old, was purchased by Mr. W. R. Kemball for 2050 guineas; 'Up to the time of his retirement, Hymestra has won 4510 sovs. in stake money for the Mdstcrton owner. Mr. W. G. Stead has already three colts by Absurd this season, from Shrill, Steinhell, and Blended.: Mr. E. J. White, of Porangahau, has leased Kikini (Merry Moment—Ariom) to the Woodville trainer, J. Sullivan. After working at half pace at Ellerslie on Monday, Humbug was in a bad way with kidney trouble. The services of Dr. Ring were secured, and the complaint gradually yielded to treatment.