THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 234, 29 June 1922, Page 9

THE TURF

NOTES AND; COMMENTS / ’ By Glencoe. Owners are reminded' that, accept* ances for the first day's handicaps at the Wellington meeting, also entries for the Trial Plate and acceptances for the Winter Hurdles, run on the concluding day, close on Friday at 9 p.m. The local horseman H. McSweeney has been engaged to ride Alteration in th© Winter Hurdles at Trentham and he will also have the mount on Coalition in the big Steeplechase. It is expected that Sea De il will be sent to Trentham to race in tho Wellington Steeplechase. He meets Coalition on 21 lb. worse terms than was tho case at Ellerslie, and admirers of the /top weight think this will bring the pair together. , Advices from Riccarton stete tiiat the Chokebore stables will bo represented in tho flat events at Trentham by Whipping' Boy; The bay gelding is doing good work at Riccarton, tad his prospects at Trentham are highly assessed by the track watchers m the south. , . . ' Dainty Step has been pleasing her trainer bv the way she has been galloping .at headquarters. The black mare can always handle herself w ell on a soft track, and she will be strtnglv .supported (for the Chanty AJup, which in run on the opening day at, Trentham. , „ Poanui is to fulfil his hurdle engagements at Trentham, and though he is now well up in tlie weights, there are indications that the little chestnut gelding, who has now won the Century Hurdles, Great Northern Hurdles, and Campbell Hurdles in succession, will be first choice with the public (at next week’s meeting. There is every indication of big acceptances for the opbning day of the Wellington meeting, and visiting trainers would be acting in their best interests if they secured their accommodation without further delay. Royal Box is galloping well at Trentham, and despite his failure at Ellerslie early this month, the chestnut son of Nassau will be on© of the favourites in whatever race he contests at tho coming meeting of the Wellington Racing Club. , xt x- i The V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles will be run at Flemington on Saturday next. 1 . Mill o’ Gowne mot with rather severe injuries when she fell in the liiramoe Hurdles at Hastings, and will not race again for some time. It is seldom that two dead-heats occur on one racecourse in the space of three days, but such was the case] at Hastings. Moreover, they were in the same class of events—races set apart for gentlemen riders, and one amateur, Mr. S. Howard, was concerned in both. „ . . ■. The racehorse Cantoris, who was 'owned by Mr. L. B. Harris, died suddenly last week. Information ,to hand ■ states that Cantoris had just registered an attractive gallop over six furlongs at Cambridge when he was observed to stagger, and, falhng. he died in a few moments/ Mr. Harris had gone up to Cambridge in. order to see Cantoris gallop, and it was intended to nominate the gelding for the C.J.C. Winter Cup. ' A cable message to < an Australian paper says that’the twenty racehorses kept in Paris by Horatio Bottomley, who was recently sentenced to seven years’ imnrisonment for fraud,_ are worth dnlv £4OOO, according to Hare, tho trainer, who applied for a receivership He stated that Bottomley now owed him £1650, and that he must have power to borrow m order to feed the horses. The Judge consented to A rcceivershin. with power to borrow. A Press Association cablegram from Sydney states’ that Chrysostom has been scratched for the National Hurdles. RACING FIXTURES. July 8, 12, and 15—Wellington R.C. ' Winter. _ July 22.—South Canterbury Hunt Steeplechase. / „ . July 27.—Waimate District Hunt Steep’echase. July 27 and 29—Gisborne R.C. / ' Steeplechase. Augtist 8. 10, and 12.— Canterbury J.C; Grand National.