NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 52, 29 August 1913, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By Sir Bedivere.) Soltano was brought down from Hastings yesterday and is being shipped for Sydney this afternoon in charge of his trainer, F. Davis. H. Hickey arrived frdm Hastings last night, in charge of Beacon, Whakaweira, and Sir Daniel. The trio have been placed aboard the Maunganui en rout© for Sydney. ■> J. Lloyd is expected to leave for Sydney next Friday in charge ol Glenmore and Marton. Sea Queen's half brother, Ebonite, was operated upon yesterday for respiratory troubles. Nominations for the Otaki-Maori Spring Meeting are due with Mr. O. J, D Arth at 8.30 p.m. to-morrow. , Mr. Patterson recently informed an Auckland writer that there were no fewer than 23 yearlings on Motiti Island. Sixteen of the number were, by Sea ton Delaval, who died some time ago, two each by Pukaki and Marble Arch, and one each by Bunyan, Spalpeen, and Penury. Duririg the Wootton v. Sievier case the Whatcombo trainer, R. C. Dawson, was being crocs-examined in regard to the question of modern jockeyship, when the following passage occurred :—His Lordship : Yoti would make them ride like Fordham used to ?— Witness : The stewards have the power; they could do it. They could say if you don't ride lohg we won't give you a license. His Lordship : If you don't ride longer you won't nde long. (Laughter.) Stornaway, who cost Mr. Hullow 5000 guineas as a yearling, and scored easily the last time he, raced in England, waft sent over to France in July to contest the Grand Criterium d'Oatende. He was ridden by Wootton, and started favouritejJut failed to gain a place, and seemed lobe unable to go tho pace set, being beaten right off a furlong from home. The event in question was an important one, being a sweepstakes of 24 soys each, with 3000 soys added. The whole of the inmates of th« Castleton Stud, of which the late J. R. Keene was the owner, are to be sold at auction at Kingston Stud Farm, Lexington, Kentucky, in September. The collection is made up of seven stallions, thirty mares, and seven foals (a poor percentage, surely!). Some of these animals are inadmissible to the English Stud Book, but one of the stallions, in Voter, ( is clean bred enough, for he is by Friar's Balsam from Barcaldine's daughter Mavourneen. I notice, by the way, that at the Newmarket July Bales, Coronio, two years, by Voter— Court Dress, brought 1600 guineas. Ih September, also, the stud of the late Charles Kohler, consisting of 50 mares, 30 Yearlings, and as many foals, will be sold at Kingshead Bay. According to the Sportsman R. Wool* ton remarked in the course of his crossexamination at the handßof Mr, Sievier, that "he had an income in Australia of £2000 a year." This from Jus properties there. He charged £2 10s per week for training a horse, out of which he cleared about 15s. On being asked the meaning of the expression "don't knock the horse about; it is not quite fit," Frank Wootton said he thought it meant " win if you can." Quite right Franks what else could it mean 1 ** The following, says an exchange, were the measurement* of Carbine when' he was a fOur-year-old ;— Height, lOh Oiin 5 girth, sft 7£in ; forearm, 17in ; below knee, 7iin. /Musket's measurements at 16 years were as follow :— -Height, 16h liin ; girth, 6f b lin ; forearm, 2ltn j below knee, B^in. Onvide, the winner of ,the Prix de France at Auteuil oh Sunday, 13th July, was steered by the accomplished German amateur horseman, Dr. Franz Rieie, who has thus 'at the second attempt carried off the ( biggest international event of the kihd in France. Deutscher Sport (Berlin) recalls that he rode Onvide last year, when they came to grief, and adds the interesting fact that the successful rider in this particular race is entitled to free admission at Autenil for life, and becomes, also for life, an honoured guest of the leading French Cross-country Association. Dr. Riese is a frequent competitor in that country, both in races,, for gentlemen riders ahd open events, and he has on numerous occasions taken the field against the leading professional horsemeni I mmmmmm Hia Majesty the King was represented by a nice winner at Lingfield on 12th July, wheh his filly La Marquise, a daughter of Marcovil and Prinoeßsl de Galles, scored in a canter in the Great Foal Plate of 735 boys. Six days later His Majesty's colt Brakespear, by-Spear-mint from Guinea Hen, who is described as a really good-looking two-year-old, got home in thfe Chesterfield Stakes of 820 soys. A writer in the Sportsman commented on Brakespear's effort as follows :— "Brakespear had not nil preyiously. Considerable interest wai taken in his debut; he had shown much promise in lv's home gallops, and in his race gave a very smooth performance, wihning by a neck from the favourite, Ascenseur. The hoisting of BVakespear's number was greeted with a storm of cheering, and the King made no effort to conceal his pleasure at the colt's victory. The colt holds a large number of engagements, including the Derby and St. Leger next year."