NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 78, 1 April 1916, Page 12

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By "Sir Lancelot,")

The acceptances received for the handicap events on the opening day of the Wellington Racing Club's forthcoming meeting are very satisfactory. Given fine weather on Thursday, some fh.'stclass contests should be witnessed.

B. J. Mason, A. Cutts, and other Riccarton • trainers, are expected to put in an appearance to-morrow Sir George Clifford will be represented at the coming meeting by Petruchio, Adjutant, Battle Eve, Wrestler, and Winterbourne. Mr. Mason is bringing up Emperador, Nones, and Swale.

Handicaps for the Great Easter and Great Autumn Handicaps are due to make their appearance on Monday next.

The draft which Sir George Clifford is sending to Sydney for sale will include the three-year-old fillies Floweret and Fair Slave.

A telegram from New York announces the death, which is reported from the health resort of Saranac Lake, in the Adirondack^, of Mr ■ Hermann B. Duryea., the millionaire racehorse owner and yachtsman. Mr. Ii.1 B. Dnryea was well known in England, and even better known, perhaps, in France, where most of his horses were trained. He won the Epsom Derby in 1914 with Durbar 11., and the Two Thousand Guineas, in 1912, with Sweeper 11. Another of his successful horses was Mediant, which had a sensational victory in the Stewards' Cup race at Goodwood in 1909. Mr. Duryea's father was a distinguished general in the American Civil War, and made a fortune as head of a, firm of starch manufacturers, which became by successive conversions the National Starch Company. He was also largely interested in the wood-working industries.

Messrs. W. F M. Buckley (chairman of the Canterbury Jockey Club) and D. H. Roberts, the well-known southern owner, are at present on a visit to Wellington,

Mr. H. G. Taylor, owner of Bee, has purchased Spangle (Martian—Nantes) from Mr. C. G. Dalgety Later on they, will be sent across to Sydney to winter and be got ready for early spring engagements..

The Auckland-bred Wireless (Soult — Golden Mavis) won the Pony Race at the Lancefield (Vie.) Meeting on 21st March.

- 'Mr. Spencer Gollan is racing a few jumping horses in England this year. At Gatwick on 21st January he won the Four-year-old Hurdle Race with The. Bimkrn (by Ladas—Bim), who started favourite in a field, of fourteen. A. London writer mentions the time, 3min 8 2-ssec, for a mile and a-half, as being excellent, but without knowing anything as to the condition of the track it would rate as very slow in the Dominion.

Honorine (Sonlt —Czarena).^ the full sister to Anna Carlovna, won the TJbique Corinthian, a mile race for gentlemen rider, at Caulfield on 19th March.

Waiuku, who won the Thompson Handicap three times in. succession, and Ladoga, who won the last two contests for the popular mile race, are the only horses that have won the race on more than one occasion. On the last occasion that Waiuku was successful he carried 10.3. Boreas (the Sou-wester gelding that did good service for the Porirua stable) won with 9.9, and Equitas and Ladoga both carried 9.2 to victory.

It -was reported the day after the Pahiafrua Meeting that Detroit had been sold to Mr. Lindsay M'Donald, delivery to be taken after the Manawatu Meeting. The writer was unable to see either of the parties concerned to get the report confirmed. Detroit is fairly well bred, by Frisco (winner of the New Zealand Cup) from Fishermaid, by Fiske—Waltonia, by Isaak Walton— Maid of the Mill. Fishermaid was one of the few progeny of Fiske (Nordenfeldt—My Idea), the half-brother of Nelson, that ever won a race. Waltonia was a, champion hack along the West Coast fifteen years ago. She was owned by the late Mr. Frank Hill, and was generally ridden' by Alick M'Cormick, and the* combination was well-nigh unbeatable.