NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 62, 11 September 1911, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

(By Sif fcedivere.)

Roeegrove wn« decidedly lame after contesting the Second Hack Steeplechase At Marton. Hence his withdrawal from his Dannevirke -engagements, He was ! piloted last week, by the wAy, by Not- ! dolf, a jockey attached to Oeo. Price's stable, who hml not previously ridden in public. ' The D«hncvirke Club received e&tisfac. Tory acceptancea in connection with ite spring meeting, which i« to be held on Wednesday, *nd the crow country events, which are entirely new to the district promise to be well contesteS. Since the weights were d«cUred HimiUngi fth a Lpsom Use hay* each bwsft imcemful, and are thewfore linble to be re-handi' capped. The Dfcnnevirkft Steepl«cha«e ie the k«t event that Lovell will content this side of Chfustnuw, and t understewd his ownei' is thinking of having him operated upon subsequently lor i>p6pi rfv . Tory troubles. An apprentice named 51'Carten, who is attachetf to 0. Cox's B <*ble at Hawera, donned silk for the first time at the Mat ton meeting, and after being unplaced on Contralto, he rode Kpirom L»«e to victory in the Crofton Handicap. His manner of handling this mate created a most fiivouiable impwssioM, and aa M'Cftrten's Appearance tnggewl* ihtl fa will be tnany ye»rs ere he is Mns-ble to fide At ft light weight there weftis to be t% bright future in front of him. There is another likely lad under Geo. Price's care at Aw*puni, tvnd it ie quite on. the cards that ere the end' of this season the position in inspect to capable riders able to go to pcfcle at 6.7, may be more «&tfo. factory the-n at present. No sooner has the Bea«on commenced than the old complaint of lad* of totalisator facilities k Again heard. M»ny in. tending investor* were disappointed at Marlon la«t week, «nd there was a ma-rked insufficiency of p«y out clerks. All tha.t coul* be done in the present totalkator tiott«e wm done, but the building ie ht too small. This the club fully realises And the «cret«y, My. Day, tells me that the building is to be enlarged forthwith. In passing I may mention that the new accommodation provided for pressmen is up-to-date in every respect and compares favorably with any to be found elsewhere. A. Hall «totes that North EM whilst doing tk gallop on the Wanpnui tracks recently struck himself, and although the injury he received is not .regarded seriously, it has been necessary to postpone his trip to Australia, An oworttinity, .which, needles* to, eeary r I was glad to. ava.il myself of, pweented iteelf k#t week of having & look round Mr. Highden's stable. Geo. Price, who trains privately for Mr. Highden, ha* a lengthy team In hand, and with reasonable luck he shonld have a. ftood season.. Boanerges, Nyland, and Polymorphous, csmprise the elder division, «nd having seen the two nrst-nMned, each c-{ whom is continuing to go on the right way, tinder silk at Riccarton last msnth, I was naturally meet interested in Polymorphous. Multiform's B»n has made quite & remarkable recovery from the operation he underwent for re*pifa.tory troubles, and apart from a slight falling away across the ldn«, he now looks almost himself again. Only a small lump iremains to show where the incision was made, and the big fellew will be quite ready to race by Christmas time. He still makes a little noiso whilst working, tent ceases to do so immediately he n polled up, And it is hoped that results will be as situffftctory in hie case as they have proved in that of. Undecided. Little Bronze has not beett doing quit© •o well a& conld be wished, and Although she is feeding well enough, the. is suffering a Jiit from dental trouble*. She it, not nearly co muscular behind tJie saddle as she was last season, and I understand that it is nnlikely #he will contest the W»nganui Gainea*, The first of the youngsters I looked over was Lockwood, a chestnut colt by St. Ambrose from Pa-rirua's dam Wwteiaa-ta. He is quite in the rough yet, and will net be asked to race until the season is welL aavanced. Apart from an nndne width between the fore legs— a defect which did not prevent hi* elder half brother from •galloping— he is difficult to fault. Behind the «ad4le he is especially food, being deep and well sprang in the tib, Ami exceptionally long on the top of the quarter. H© k good to follow too, and as he has a sound and stands squarely en the best of limbs it may be that he will turfi out the bwt of his defunct sire'e progeny. Turnspit, & gelding by B»niform from Soult's daughter Kitchen Maid, is a useful looking chap of medivtm size, but something infinitely better w«e next inspected in Krmeng*rde, a daughter, of Charlemagne H. and Watershoot (Royal Artillery—Nenuphar). This fijly has a wonderfully smart Appearance She i« art very tali, but she shows quality and power all over and if she doe* not keep her opponents busy when first she carries silk—probably in the Hastings Stake*— l shall be greatly surprised. Thongh she has not yet been sent RgAinet the watch, she k quite sufficiently forward, and enough has Already been Been of her to make perfectly certain that she can go wonderfully fast. The Martian—€uiralba filly, who will ' be known as Neirene, ib a big one, and will require time to mature. She may run np a little behind the girth, but ehe is a command, ing young lady, with the sweetest of tempers, and Her trainer expects her to stay. Blakeney, who was last seen out at Trentham, is a wiry-looking customer, and another maiden three-year-old in Mallard, a colt by St. Ambrose from, the same family fts Nyland and Boanerges, may turn out usefal. The string is completed with a two-year-old gelding by Treadmill from n mare by Birkjenhead, out of Balm. He has not been seriously taken in hand yet, but he is a cut-and-come-again sort of a customer, find there art distinct possibilities about him. This .iurcess of Los Angetos in tlm Chelmsiffltl Stakes is welcome news, for it tends to show that, as iwual, our best horsw aw fully a nwtrH foT anything they have on the other side of the water. It is perhaps improbable thnl he will be brought back to contest the New Zealand Cup, but it may. nevertheless, be worth mentioning th«t, in accordance with the conditions thereof, the extreme penalty which Los Angelos ran earn would ' Only raise his weight up to 9.3.