NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1914, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By " Sir Lancelot.")

The yearling filly by Martian— Mary of Argyle (full-sister to Sunbird and Ardenvohr), passed in at the yearling sales last week at Christchurch, was subsequently sold privately for 300 guineas. The Armidale Cup, run at Caulfield on Saturday, is the race fop. which Di Gama's entry was refused. It is worth 500 soys, and run over a mile and three furlongs. The winner. Hush Money, showed some form at the Melbourne Cup meeting, where she won the Trial Stakes on the opening day, and ran second to Di Gama in the Carnival Handicap. Hush Money, owned by her breeder, Mr. Jas. ' Wilson, sen., is by the great performer and successful sire, Bobadil, from Remain. The runner-up, Allansford, is a four-year-old colt by Positano from the New, Zealand performer Gladsome. At the V.R C. meet- v ing a week previously he scored in the Veterans' Stakes, one mile and a-half, from .end to end. Wassail, who filled the other place, belongs to South Australia, ancl is a better stayer than most of the Maltster tribe. One Blenheim sport at Riccarton tried to get even on the first day by putting a hundred on Reputation in the Derby (who was placed second, owing to interference by First Flight). A friend who invested the money either threw the tickets away or destroyed them. The writer has been imormed that the Canterbury Jockey Club intends to devote the proceeds of the unpresented Reputation tickets to the Belgian fund. Mr. J. Casserley, of Hawera, owner of Applause (Day Star — MainboomK states that the returns of that mare s progeny appearing in the New Zealand Stud Book are incomplete. The correct list is as follows :—I9OB,: — 1908, b c (cut). Encore, by Maniapoto; 1909; b c (died), by Foremost; 1910, b c Revocation, by Cheshire; 1911, b f by St. Paul;' l9l2, b c by Foremost. Applause has a foal by Husbandman. Lotchen, who filled third place in the Sandgate Handicap, the principal event on the concluding day of the Queensland Turf Club's meeting on Saturday last, it the full sister to Thetis and Parewanui, and ha© done well in Queensland, 'where she won six races las!* season. The winner, Sir Ruenalf, is a four-year-old by Ruenalf — Herda, one of Messrs. H. E. A and V. White's breeding, by Blue Mountain — Lerida. Nominations for the principal handicap ©vents at the Auckland Summer Meeting appeared in 'the Evening Post of Saturday. Ftom the lists appended it will be seen that the weighMcjr-age events have also filled -well: — Islington Plate, of 650 sove ; one jnile. — Ruse de Guerre, Columbus, Merry Roe, Mullingar, Allegation, Royal Irish, Warstep, Gazette, Prince Soult, Court Martial, First Flight, Wisebird, Expect, • Pariform, Hyettus, Downham, Balboa, Campeador, Tete-a^-Tete, Reputation, Prince Merriwee, Jolie Fijle, La Reina, Sauci, Bee, Monojack, Goldfire, Postillion, Bonny Helen. Auckland Plate, of 650 soys; one mile and a-half.— Soldier, Columbus, .Merry Roe, Mullingar, Roumania, Allegation, Warstep, Gazette, Soultikoff, Quarantine, Court Martial, First Flight, Camulus, Expect, Blackall, Balboa, Campeador, Marshal M'Donald, Kooya, Thrax, Bon Rain, Reputation, Prince Merriwee, Jolie Fille, La Rein*, Monorail, Phosphorus, I Bonny Helen. Mr. T. Sheenan has gold the yearling colt by Martian-— Greek Maid (fullbrother to Byron) to Mr. W. T. Hazlitt, of Invercargill, for 400 guineas. The half-mile record put up by Conqueror at the New Zealand Cup Meeting of 1897 has again stood the test of another Spring Meeting. There was a gale of wind behind Conqueror the day he put up_ 46 l-ssec, and he was materially assisted by R. Derretfc keeping him going all the way to get out of Dundas's road. The latter lost ground at the start by swerving to die inside when tho .barrier was released. He made up the lost ground and was only a length and a half behind the leader when the line was crossed. There was a gale of wind blowing last week on Oaks Day, and when Sutala scored in the Spring Nursery, run the same ground as the Welcome Stakes, he was credited with covering the distance in 47 3-ssec, which time is only a tick outside that of Golden Lily (who has the' next best record to Conqueror) in the Welcome Stakes. In the Electric Plate, on Saturday, Chakwana carried weight-for-agc, and ran the half-mile in 46 4-ssec, which is the best time performance put up by a three-year-old under weight-for-age conditions at Riccarton. The form 6hown by competitors that filled the places in the New Zealand Cup worked out well in subsequent events in | which they competed. Warstep (one of the dead-heaters) was produced twice in weight-for-age events. In the Canterbury Cup, two miles and a-quarter, she I finished a creditable second to Reputation, and defeated Balboa (winner of the Derby). In the Stead Cup, One mile and a-quarter, she finished close up to Reputation and First Flight, two of the best three-year-olds of the season, and defeated Bonny Helen (winner of the Metropolitan), Balboa, and Indigo (whom she met on a pound worse terms than in the Cup). Indigo was also seen out in the Jockey Club Handicap, one mile, on the third day. He carried 7.11— 131b more than in the Cvp — and finished almost on terms with the leaders. Among those behind Him were Kilrain, whom he met on 181b worae tennis than in the Cup. Sea Pink (who fillad third place iv the Cup) was only started again on tlie concluding clay, when he carried top weight to victory in the Fendaltou Handicap, one mile and a-quarter. He met Kilruin on 16ih and Kooya on 71b worse terms than iv the ' two miles event on the opening da.y. Probably if the big race was run over again to-day the same horses would again fill the pla-ces. There would no doubt be a good deal of diversity of opinion as to •which one of the two would get the verdict. Soi' this reason it is a pity Indigo was not engaged in the Auckland Cup. ' His owner did not enter him for the New Zealand and Ureat Northern Derbies. Acceptances for fust day's events at tho Feildbu; Jockey Club's S[>iinj: Mcoli'T;', first frnfeiti for the Oroua. Stakes. ;niri final psi v ineuts for the Ninth Feilding Stakes clueo ty-nioucnv at 8.20 p.m.