NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 150, 26 June 1915, Page 17

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By "Sir Lancelot.") Mr. Whitney did not -wait for the second day's racing at Hastings, and consequently did not know anything about the "protest entered by the stewards against Ardent and Mount Victoria for bumping in the straight in the Final Handicap," until he read it in print. There were only four runners in the race, and Hymettius led throughout. The course should have been wide enough for the other three competitors. Strange to say, there was trouble in the same race last year, and Mount Victoria's rider, T. Pritchard, was stood down for three months. There were twelve runners in the race last June. Mr. Whitney's horse, who endeavoured to get j through on the rails, where an opening offered, is said to have been the chief sufferer in any interference that took place last week. .Kew, who was among the competitors at the Napier Park Meeting yesterday, carried the colours of Mi 1 . H. M. Speed, who is in the lines at Trentham. Handicaps for the opening day of the Wellington Winter Meeting will appear in Monday's issue. J. W. Lowe has gone to Oamaru to have a look at a chestnut two-year-old colt by Golden Knight — Grand Rain (tiam of Kilrainj Kirn, and Bon Rain). The youngster is appropriately named "Golden Rain." Nassau, Mr. G. L. Stead's imported horse, goes South by the Remuera tomorrow in charge of J. O'Brien. The new importation is a bright bay, the only white markings being a blaze and near hind fetlock. He is in- excellent trim after the long journey. He is well proportioned, with a good middlepiece and the cleanest of legs. In Volume VI. of the New Zealand Stud Book it is stated that the Gallinule horse Penury died in 1912. This is incorrect, and Mr. H. R.* MacKenzie's horse is alive and well at the Ascot stud, Auckland. Messrs. J. E. Henrys and A. G. Wood have been appointed handica-pper and starter respectively for the Waimate Hunt Club's Meeting next month. After racing on the first day at Hastings, Doon showed signs of muscle soreness, and was brought home. None of the Trentham-trained horses that competed at Hastings waited for the Park. At the Patriotic Meeting of the Rockhampton Jockey Club, held this month, Nx>uinarza (by Nonette) won the British Handicap, Glenkite (a- Queens-land-bred three-year-old by St. Hippo) the Dominion Handicap, and Kohinoor \ (Royal Ffasilier— Bijou) the Allies' Handicap. A cable to the Australian papers states that Pommern won the Derby in a canter by two lengths. j At the committee meeting of the Ashburton Trotting Club, held on Monday last, it was resolved to nominate Messrs. Seiig, Nicoll, and Garrard as delegates to the New Zealand Trotting Association. The annual meeting of members was fixed for 27th , July, and •it was decided to make a donation of £105 tothe Canterbury Patriotic Fund. Mr. Geo. Morse will make the handicap for the North Taranaki and Rangiti- j kei Hunt Club Meetings. ! Among the winners at the Mount ■Gambler Meeting on the 17th inst. was St. Haven, by St. Savin— Carsona. This ,is probably the first of the progeny of St. Savin to -win in Australia. St. Savin (St. Simon — Aboyne) sired winners in England, Germany, and America. St. Savin is at the Woodlands Stud, Denman, New South Wales, and v is owned by the sportsman who races as E<. J. Craven, whose colours Lady Medaihst carried in Australia. A race meeting for amateur rider© held at Epsom (Vie.) on the 17th instant realised £800 for the Belgian Fund. Mr. G. L. Stead contributed £10 10s, and a shoe worn by Carbine brought £10. Usually the -trotting meetings .finish tip the season at Ashburton in May. The recently-issued permits have extended the present season. The Waikato Chib holds ite meeting to-day. Poverty Bay follows on 2nd July, South Canterbury on Bth July, and Waimate Plains on 28th July. Mr. "Patsy" Butler, who owned Liberator when that gelding won the Great Northern double and so many good races in different parts of New Zealand, was in Auckland during the week, and met Mr. W. J. Ralph, owner of El Gallo, wlio, after a lapse of twenty years, credited his owner with the same double event. Mr. Butler's memory for long time ago events is wonderfully clear. He formed an early liking for Betrayer, the sire of Liberator, and actually purchased that horse as a youngster, but got out of the deal at a loss of £50. He paid 510 guineas for Liberator, who was a payable proposition. A. J. M'Flynn rode both of Mr. G, L. Stead's horses when they scored at Aspendale Park. The Pole, who started favourite, won by two lengths. Sauci, who started second favourite in a field of seven, won by a head. The Christchurch horse Whispering Willie, who is on the limit in "the smin lOsec class at the Waikato Meeting is handicapped in three events at the Waikato Meeting on 2nd July. He promises to have as successful a run as the Carterton-6wned trotter Monsoon. The Hawkes Bay gelding Silver King (Sylvia Park— Ruby), who has been for some time trained in Sydney, has been nominated for the minor events at the V.R.C. Grand National Meeting, which opens on Saturday next.