NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 153, 26 December 1914, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By " Sir Lancelot."}

The Manawatu Racing Club's Meeting will be continued on Monday next when the Ninth Palmerston North Stakes comes up for decision. Emperador, winner of the Jackson Stakes and Manawatu Stakes last season, makes his reappearance in the rare. A smart two-year-old like IJangitei'o should run prominently, although last season Ermengarde and Gladiolo, winner and runner-up at Feilding, were both beaten by Bandiera at Awapuni. The Islington Plate and Summer Cup are the principal events at Ellerelie on Monday. The field entered for tho weight-for-age event, run over a mile course, includes Warstep and Postillion, winner and runner-up in tho same race twelve months ago. Others engaged likely to take a prominent part in the contest, if started, are Keputation, Balboa, and Mullingar. t At the West Australian Turf Club's Meeting this month, the Breeders' Plate, of 250 soys, went to Irish Prophet, a chestnut colt by Wallace — Prophecy (a weight-for-age winner in the West), by Phoebus Apollo — Problem (dam of Solution). Irish Prophet is the first foal of Prophecy, who was sent to Victoria, on a visit to Wallace. There are at present a large number of New Zealand-bred horses competing at the pony feneetings on the other side. Among the runners at a recent meeting at Ascot (Sydney) were Depend (Field Battery — Ks-triona), Ann Sarto (Sarto — Monture). Sajook (Sarto— Chinook), Decorate (Gluten — Decoration). Taupiri Maid (Elysian— Guid Wife), Glad Heart (by Gladstone), Fire Glow (Martian — • Fireside), Goldenmore (Gold Reef—Kilmorey), Speedy Meg, Miss Ethel (late Bow Bells), and Fern Girl (late Fern Leaf, by Stepleaf— Paradise Maid). At the Menangle Park (Sydney) Meeting this month the three-year-old Gold Girton (by Gold Reef — Girton), was among the successful performers. Girton (Eton — Kilmorey) is a half-sister to Little Mabel. Kilmarnock, Kilderkin, Moreykoff, Goldenmore, and Goldenfield. The two last-named won in New South Wales last sea-son. At the Queensland Turf Club's meeting 'this month, the Champagne Stakes, of 250 soys, six furlongs, was won by Malkatoon, by Mountain King— Dismay, by Mostyn. The winner cost Mr. E. J. Craven 350 guineas at the Sydnoy yearling sales. Malkatoon is practically a full sister to Mountain Knight, whose full brother fetched 690 guineas. La Veille and Dismay are both daughters of Mostyn, an English horse that performed successfully in South Australia. He won the Goodwood Handicap, the Newmarket of the Wheat State, two years in succession. King Murillo (Murillo— Housewife),- a half-brother to Penates, is showing some form in Victoria. He won two races the same afternoon at Mentone this month. He is the first good one Housewife has produced since Penates. In the first eventi he carried 6.11, and won by ten lengths in lmin _13fsec. The second time out he carried 8.4, and won by three-quarters of a length in lmin 27^sec. R. H. Frew, a well-known Flemington trainer of jumping horses, is on a holiday visit to the Dominion. The response received from owners for the first day's handicap events at the Wairarapa Racing Club's Summer Meeting gives promise of a successful meeting. All the horses handicapped in the Rimutaka Hack Handicap remain in the race ; Cyra (who got hurt at Woodville) is the only one out of the 1 Tntutarata Handicap. All but four paid up for tho Cup ; the same number dropped out of the Nursery Handicap ; there were five defections from the Pukio Handicap; all but First Consul, who is reported to have broken down, remain in the Reynolds Handicap, and only three dropped out of the Mokai Welter. Two of them are in other events, and ' Jem will be at Marton.