NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 139, 9 December 1914, Page 10

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By "Sir Lancelot."} (*( * At a meeting of stewards of the Wellington Racing Club Mr. H. Coyle was appointed handicapper for the remainder of the season. C. Emerson was in good form at the Hororate, meeting on Saturday last, riding four firsts and one second. With the exception of the Tuhitarata Handicap on- the opening day, the nominations received for the Wairarapa Racing Club's Summer Meeting compare favourably with previous years. The following horses are engaged in the Wairarapa Cup (one mile and a quarter) : — Kilrain, Los Angelos, Peroneal, Ladify, Stepney, First Consul, Big Blast, Rene, Bertrada, Square Deal, Chillies, Arlington, Montana, Want, Suratura, Kooya. . Mr. J. Cress has presented All Guns to the Expeditionary Forces as a troop horse, and he will go out with the next contingent. D. Nyhan, the Petone trainer, is taking a, team of six to the Auckland Trotting Club's Meeting. They include Jewel Chimes, winner of the last Auckland Cup, who is engaged in that event again. They leave on Sunday next, Mr. J. L. Bow en, a steward of the•Poverty Bay Racing Club, is at present on a visit to Wellington. Mr. Edwards is taking six of his Australian trotting team through .to Auckland. They include Adelaide^ Direct (the scratch horse in the Cup) and Denver Huon. With the exception of the two open events the nominations for the Carterton Meeting are very satisfactory. There are twenty-five in the Trial Plate five furlongs; fifteen in the Belvidere Hack Handicap; seventeen in the Gladstone Hack Handicap; and twenty-seven in the Dash Hack Handicap. The open e\ ents have not filled quite so well. The Wairarapa County Cup field is made up of Rene, Ladity, Chillies, Big Blast, First Consul, and Suratura. In the Railway Handicap, Blue Lake, Rene, Immer, Margarita, Negative, Suratura, and His Eminence are entered. The trotting events have also filled well. There are twenty-one in the mile, and the same number in the mile and a half event. Handicaps are due on Friday next. Big Blast is not to fulfil her engagements at the Woodville Meeting, but will be seen out at Carterton and Tauherenikau. The Opaki-trained First Consul, who is among the horses hndicapped at Reefton on Boxing Day, is also engaged at the Taratahi on the same day. T. F. Quinlivan has engaged accommodation for seven horses at the Auckland Summer Meeting. L. Traill has been engaged to ride Kilmeny at the Auckland Summer Meeting. The general entries for the Auckland Racing Club's Summer Meeting include the names of Roumania, Belasco, Kilmeny, Mount Victoria, Fashion Plate, Pavlova, Vocation, and several of the Karamu team — Maniaroa, St. Elmn, and others. Mr. Morse's handicaps for the minor events on the first day are due on Friday next. Jolie Fille. an Auckland Cup candidate, is down to compete at the Tauranga meeting on Saturday ne.xt. Gold Necklace will not accompany her stable mates to Woodville. Her next appearance will be at Carterton on Boxing Day. An Auckland scribe has the following reference to a Taranaki-owned horse that has been in the boom for some little time past : — "An effort is being made to purchase Lord Multifid for an Australian career. Lord Multifid, as his name implies, is a son of defunct Multifid, and has been responsible for some sensational trials at Hawera, where he is trained by P. Coffey. As much as £500 has been offered for this untried one." Lord Multifid is down to appear at the Taranaki Jockey Club's meeting on Boxing Day. He is engaged in a five furlongs Hack Handicap, with 7.7, and if as good as he is made out to be should have no difficulty in scoring his first win. Concerning Monorail's success at Takapuna, an Auckland writer states that it was the first success gained by Mr. H. H. Hayr's colours for about twenty years, and he was barred by the rules of ownership on account of his connection with the totalisator. The writer was under the impression that the rules of racing only debarred officials of clubs racing horses at meetings with which they were connected. Two somewhat similar cases may be mentioned in this district. Mr. F. G. Roe. secretary of the Horowhenua. Racing Club, always has a horse or two racing, but was unable to race them at Levin. Mr. Jos. Ames, the local ' totalisator proprietor, was also debarred racing Merrivonia, Livonia, and other horses at meetings at which he was connected as totalisator proprietor. The Izaak Walton gelding. Fishmonger, a successful competitor in steeplechase events at Auckland suburban meetings, " was probably the best horse Mr. Hayr raced. The Trentham teams of A. Goodman and L. Crawford will probably compete at the Carterton and Wairarapa meetings during the holidays. With reference to the paragraph in Saturday's issue concerning the payment of a cheque to Mr. Harry Hayr as soon as his horse won a race at Takapuna, it is of interest to recall that the Ilorowhenua ' Racing Club used to pay over the stakes after every race. At one meeting the writer attended H. Fletcher (trainer of Sinapis) won with Dauber. Betsy (who won two events), Benefactor, and Blue Spur, op the same day. The idea was to circulate the money at the meeting. The Wanganui Trotting Club has paid a tribute to its late secretary, Mr. Selby Morton, by naming one ,of the events on the programme of its annual meeting the Morton Memorial Stakes. Since the autumn meeting the Taranaki Jockey Club has altered and improved its course, which is now a mile round. The six furlongs course has also been improved by the purchase of additional land adjoining the course. In. I each case the bonds have been banked, .which should, make for fasten, time..

Since Mr. E. P. Webster took charge of affairs the Taranaki Club lias done well. . Flower of the West and Findhorn, two of the winners at the Hororata Meeting on Saturday, are trained by R. Derrett. Flower of the West is an imported mare by Arizona — Flowerer, owned by Mr. A. Boyle, a steward of the Canterbury Jockey -Club. Findhorn, who also carries Mr. Boyle's colours, is a three-year-old gelding by Finland — De Murska (Gipsy Grand — lima), full sister to Grand Opera, dam of Cherubini. Christmas Lily, winner of a double on Saturday, is a roan mare by Euclid (brother to Solution), from a daughter of Son of a Gun, after whom she takes in colour. Christmas Lily is trained by her owner, Mr. Thomas Prosser. Moddite (now trained by W. M'Donald for Mr. " C. Machell") has been a great disappointment since he went to the South Island. He is a New South Wales-bred horse by Royal Artillery — Quietest, a well-bred mare by Grafton— Slumber, by Trenton—Nightmare. After running two good races at the last Auckland Cup Meeting in Mr. T. IT. Lowry's colours Moddite was purchased by his present owner. The Takapuna Jockey Club will shortly be able to get over the difficulty concerning its track. It has recently purchased from the Auckland Harbour Board at a cost of £6000 a block of land known as Narrow Neck, Shoal Bay, which fronts the Takapuna course on the north side. The additional land, about 32 acres in extent, will enable the club to enlarge the race track and also lay out a steeplechase track. Although he has not yet won over a mile and a-quarter, Rewi Poto has twice won over a mile and 110 yards at Stratford, and once over a mile and a distance in the Empire Handicap on the second day of the Wanganui May meet- j ing. This season he started well at j Wanganui by running second to Awa- j hou, to whom he was conceding 41b, and on the second day scored in the Marangai Handicap, one mile and 110 yards, carrying 8.12, in lmin 50sec. He was unlucky enough to start off on his wrong leg the first day at Feilding, when half-a-dozen horses were better backed, and i he finished in the ruck. On the second day he was sent out favourite, and won 'pulling up. He has 8.10 in the principal event at Woodville, less than he won with at Wanganni and Feilding, and should again be sent out favourite.