THE TURF

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 129, 31 May 1917, Page 4

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(HI "SIR LANCELOT.")

Miss Martian (Martian —Mies Dalrymple) won the Final Handicap at. the Goulburn (N.S.W.) Meeting last month. She is a half-sister to the well-performed two-year-old Ample.

The Wellington-owned horses Mount Victoria and Eoumania are engaged at the Dunedin Meeting, which opens on Saturday next. Mr. John M'Donald won the Two-year-old Handicap at City Tattersall's Meeting at Eandwick recently, with Mountain Lassie, by Mountain King—Demoiselle, by San Francisco—She (by Nordenfeldt— Steppe), dam of Bobadil. Mountain Lassie was bred by her ownev at Mungie Bundie Stud. Biplane, who has been spelling on his owner's station for some time, has rejoined R. J. Mason's team. He may accompany his stable mates to Sydney next month. The Auckland-bred Arch Marella (Marble Arch—Seatonella) was among the winners at Kembla Grange recently. According to the New Zealand Stud Book the horse's name is Marella.

.The South Island will be represented at th« South Wairaxapa Trotting Club's Meeting on Monday next. The trotter Bluewood and the pacer Jennie Wood, from Brycs's stable, will be competing. As Bryce will be engagefl at the Canterbury Park Club's Meeting, the horses will go north in charge of R. Pollock. J. C. Paget, wiio has been living in Southland for some time past, intends taking his three-year-old filly, Cross Battery, to the meeting. . Mr. George Currie .js represented in the Queensland Sires 'Produce Stakes, of 1000 sove, seven furlongs, by Law Student, by Harrow —Roscoromon. The race, which is for two-year-olds, will be run on Monday nest. The annual meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club was to be held this afternoon. The following is the report to be presented to the members:—"The revenue of. the club has again showed a decline, but considering the conditions the amount of about £2000 is not out of proportion. On the expenditure side, two accounts, wages and maintenance, will show considerable increases, but there is actually no increase, as it is a rearrangement of accounts. For many years previously the improvement account has been charged with a proportion of wages and materials, but the committee considers that only new works of a permanent nature should be charged to the improvement account, and this explains the apparent increase. The profit of last year, £3005 17s Bd, together with interest £1279 12s Id, was distributed as follows :—Canterbury Patriotic Fund £1000, Bed Cross and Comforts Fund £1000, French Red Cross £500, Lady Liverpool Fund £500, Belgian Relief Fund £500, Navy and Mine-sweepers £500, Citizens' Defence Force £285 9s 9d." Among the chief items of revenue were:—Totalisator £37,713 19s lid, stands and gates £10,----234 6s 6d; nominations £6733, subscriptions £1791 11s. On. the expenditure side stakes absorbed £37,840, Government taxes £19,542 3s 4d (including £9302 8s 8d recovered for dividends and owners), salaries and wages £4651 13s ■sd, attendance at meetings £2159 ,18s 7d, and racecourse maintenance £1362 6s 6d. The club's assets show a balance of £56,994 12s Id over the liabilities."

By the time these notes appear in print Tim Doolan will be back in his old quarters at Flemington. His special mission is the Victorian.Grand National Steeplechase, to be run in July This will be Tim Doolan's third attempt to win the important event mentioned. On the first occasion he ran second to Flash Jack, and last season he hurt himself while competing .in a race at Flemington a few weeks previously, and had to ba withdrawn from the Grand National. •. ■

Cliakwana is to go into -winter quarters, and will not be asked to race again until next season. There are not many of the progeny of Hierarch (Cyrenian— Miss Annie) racing, and Chakwana is the best of them. .During the .present season she has won three times, and been placed on half a dozen other occasions. Her winnings amount to over 1100 soys.

Reputation is announced to take up stud duty at Mungie Bundie (New South Wales), at a fee of 30gns. Of. his three half-brothers sired by Birkenliead, the eldest of them (Gravitation) has been the least successful as a sire. Gang Awa', whc has won over 900 soys in stakes this season, has proved a good advertisement for Provocation. Trials, the only representative of Tribulation, the youngest of the family, to sport silk this season has won over 1100 soys in stakes. The Elevations have done pretty well this season. The most successful of the tribe was Client, who did not race many .times, but won four races, and, with place-money on two other occasions, secured 1540 soys in. stakes. ■ Another, male member of the successful Steppe family in Delaware, who did stud duty in Victoria, was represented in the Dominion by Prince Delaware, who won five races of tho value of 665 soys.

It is announced that Tete-a-Tete is to be retired to the stud at the end of the present season. ■ There are few mares as good looking in the Dominion as the half-sister to Bobrikoff. During the present season she won three races and 915 soys in stakes. During the four seasons Tete-a-Teta has 1 been racing her total winnings amount to 4235 soys. When Otter came to grief in the Rata Hack Hurdles on. the second day of the Wanganui Meeting it was reported that his rider, S. Henderson, had fractured a collarbone. It turns out fortunately that tho injury was not serious, and Hender-^ son, who rode Gluepot in the Wanganui Steeplechase, will be able to fulfil his riding engagements at Ellerslie on Saturday.

Two of the progeny of Eden (Stepniak — Faraway) are racing in Queensland. One of them, Bezona (by Bezonian) recently ran second in a. race in Brisbane, the other, Edenic (by Orcus) is engaged in the Sires Produce Stakes, to be ran on Monday next.