THE TURF.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 2

THE TURF.

NOTES AND COMMENTS. (By Sir Bodivere.) In New Zealand a jockey may get left at the post without incurring any, penalty beyond tho loas of any chance of winning. Such is not tho case in Australia, however. The crack horseman, M'Lachlan, failed to get Mangar away on terms with hie opponents in the Trial Handicap, and, instead , of sending his mount after them, he returned to tho paddock. Tho A.J.C. pte wards thereupon called M'Lachlan. bofore them, and fined him £50. Had M'Lachlan not been leaving for England, he would probably have been sent into retirement. iTho stewards, however, had no desire to prejudice his prospects, and contented themselves with imposing the hco-vy fine above mentiond. Poseidon's younger brother, Jacomar, who showed such good form at Randwick last month, is already al a ridiculously short price for the V.R.C. Dei'by, and Melbourne Cup double. It is Bald that the sum of 3000 guineas was re/ cently offered and refused for him. Aphaea, who was recently purchased by Mr. S. Luttroll, carried her &«w owner's colours for the first time at Trenthajn. At the time of her sale Messrs. W. G. and G. L. Stead gave Mr. Luttrell the choice of her and Bandiera. at the same money. Naturally ho is now wishing he had selected tho colt. .." Danube has the distinction pf being the only colt that ha* won the C.J.C. Derby, Great Northern Derby, and New, Zealand St. Legcr. The final meeting of the Racing Com-, mission is to commence on Monday next. Peirene'e younger sister and the Achilles— Prelude filly, which wore purchased by Mr. S. Luttrell at the Waikanae sale, have sine© become the property of Messrs. W. G. and G. L. Stead, iriiey will thus join J. R. Frank'B team at Grasslea. The former was a .K^fc galloper in the paddock, and it will' be (surprising if she docs not prove at least tho equal oi Peireno. Doiandq was given his first lesson over the schooling knees at Iliccarton in company with Corona last week. He shaped in a most satisfactory manner, and no doubt if all continues to go well with him he will carry Mr. J. Buckley's colours in the Grand National. At a meeting of the Manawatu Racing Clftb's committee, held last Thursday, ib was decided that with the co-operation of the property-owners concerned, the work of extending College-street to Max* wjjll'B-lme should be taken, in hand. This will give direct access to the course from' Palmerston North, and will prove a great convenience both to trainers and tho general public. Mr. W. Halley has sold Hilarian, and the chestnut gelding, who is competing to-day at Riverlands, will in future be trained by T. Ross. News was cabled to Mr. A. F. Doug T las last week to Mia effect that , hli trainer, J. Cameron, had been kicked by Woolloomooloo., and was in rather a bad way. Last year Mr. C. S. M'Phillnmy, of Warroo, mated hie Trenton mare, Mersey's Daughter, with the Caulfield Cup winner, Maranui, to English time, hav-. ing arranged pr&viously to leas© the progeny to Dr. Howes, V.0.) of Orange, whose intention is to enter and rae^ the foal in the English Derby, should all go well with the youngster. On 17th April Mr. M'Phillumy received word that Mer&oy's Daughter had produced a colt foal. Mersey's Daughter ,is a threequarter sister to Carbine, ' and Marartui's dam 1b by Carbine. Mr. E: R. White, of Meiton fctud, has bought the French stallion Bonne Chance, who, during his racing career, was a successful performer, and shoneas a stayer. Bonne Chance, who is now on his way to Australia, is by Childwick —son of St. Simon— from Kizil Kourgan (winner of the Grand Prix de Paris), by Onnium, from Ras Bah, by Vigilant from Katia, by Gay Dayrell frotti KeepBake, by Gladiateur from Humming Bira, by Bir'dcatcher from Indiana, by Muley Moloch from Pocahontas, the dam of. Stockwell, King Tom, and Rataplan.