THE TURF

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 46, 22 February 1917, Page 4

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(BI "SIR LANCELOT.")

The Masterton Racing Club has issued an attractive programme for its Autumn Meeting on 15th and 16th March. The Cup is worth 275 soys; March Handicap, six furlongs, 140 soys; Opaki Welter, 140 soys, one mile; Telephone Handicap, of 140 soys, five furlongs; Waipipi Handicap, 185 soys, one mile and a'distance; Final Welter, of 140. soys,. seven furlongs. Owners and .trainers are reminded that nominations for all handicap events, .also entries for the Maiden Hack Race, five furlongs, and Autumn Hack Scurry, four furlongs, closs to-morrow at 10 p.m. with Mr. A. Hath away (secretary), Masterton. ■ , Rebel, who defeated Egypt in the Great Northern Derby, was taken through to Hamilton on Saturday, and scored in the Te Kowhia Handicap." Rebel's name does not appear in the Stud Book. He is by Glengowrie (brother to Lass o' Gowriej, from Phyllis,- by Howitzer, from Satoria. by Sator—Volta-rina, a well-known Taranaki family to which Recluse (by Daniel O'Rorke), who won the Hawkes Bay Cup, Steclbono (by Hailstorm), a good winner on the West Coast, and other performers belonged. Tho full sister to Rebel, a year older, named Lady Phyllis, does nob appear in the Turf Register. She was among the winners at the Takaka (Nelson) Meeting last year. The Jackson Stakes is the chief event set down for decision at Wangamii on Saturday. ■ With Hymestra engaged it is not expected tho field will be a, large one. Tete-a-Tete, last year's winner, was allowed to drop oAt in favour of Estland, the Taranaki Stakes winner. Bimeter is the best of the old horses engaged. There s are 14 horses engaged, but most of them have been left in through oversight. The field, will probably be made up of Bimeter, Hymestra, Estland, and one of the Highden team. Mr. G. G. Stead won the first two contests for the race with Royal Artillery and Machine Gun. He also scored with Isolt. Tho Poririia champion, Achillc.? : won , the race three years in succession. Mr. AY.. E. Bidwill was successful with Gianitation and Provocation. Another owner to score ou. more than one occasion -was Mr. G-. D. Greenwood, who won with Armlet and Emperador. The last named scored twice. Sir Geo. Clifford won with Autrumnus, ,^'r. Highdon with Ermengarde, and Messrs. W. G. and G. L. Stead with Vice-Admiral. With two exceptions (Revolenta and Roumania) all the horses handicapped' for the Dannevirke Cup were paid up 'for. Blairfinde fAntonio-High Jinks), who arrived from Victoria this week to join J. M'Lnughlin's Trentham team, was a successful performer last season as a four-year-old. He started 25 times last season, winning seven races aa follows :— Ballarat Miners.—Flying Handicap,, five furlongs, -.7.11, lmin 2£sec. Buninyong T.C.—Flying Handicap, five furlongs, 8.10, lmin 4 2-ssec. Burrurabqct Park.—Flying Handicap, five furlongs, 8.11, lmin 2 l-ssec.

Ballarat T.C.—Flying Handicap, five furlongs, 8.3, lmin 1 2-ssec. Seymour T.C.—Flying Handicap, five furlongs, 8.12, lmin 0 3-ssec. , Onkaparinga (S.A.) Hills.—Railway ■ Stakes, five furlongs, 7.7, lmin lfsec. , Mooneo . Valley.—High Weight, five and a-quarter furlongs, 8.10, lmin 5-Jsec. The Lethe mare Pursefiller met with a mishap recently, and it may be some time before she is able to race again. The North Island steeplechaser, Bransfield, is to bo taken in hand again shortly for winter racing. Kilbo}' and Sasanof are among the horses nominated for the. Napier Cup. Southern papers report that M. Hobbs is working both these three-year-olds along steadily, though they have not yet been set any severe tasks since their arrival here. Eligible, the four-year-okl brother of The Toff, has been sold by Mr. W. G. Stead to the Hawkes Bay owner,. Mr. T. E. Welch. Eligible will be treated to a further spell, after which an attempt will be made to train him again. Troublesome, who returned- to Auckland after winning the Adelaide Grand National Steeplechase last August, is now in active work at Ellerslie, alter a good race. The Spalpeen gelding is not a hard horse to handle, and he may lie ready to race in the autumn. . The Hastings trainer, J. A.' Hennah,' who was drawn in the ballot last week, owned Captain Jingle when ho won the Napier, Wellington, and Grand National Steeplechases a few years ago.