NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 149, 22 December 1919, Page 11

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Rose Pink lnis been liberally nominated at the Wellington Summer Meeting. Slia is in three events each day. Belle o' the Camp (Campfire—Marionetta), who ran second in the Novice Handicap at Taumarunui, is a half-sister to Birkenetfca. The former is engaged in the Dash Handicap at Marton, with the minimum weight. .

Hastings trainer L. Wilson, appears at present undecided where his team will be at New .Year time. Early Dawn, Statuette, fflaioha, sind Dribble have been paid up for at Both the Marton and Hawkes Bay New Year Meetings. Chaeronin, and Royal Exchange, who are to compete at Tauherenikau at New Year time, ran six furlongs in company a.t Trentham on Saturday morning in a pleasing manner. Gloaming has been entered for both the Kelbuni Plate and the Waterloo Plate at the Wellington Meeting. Red Bob, who has been engaged in. the halfmile weight- por-age race, is a two-year-old, by All R-ed from Miss Bobby. He is down to run at Marton at New Year time.

The Auckland Welcome Stakes winner, Weary Willie, is not to fulfil his engagement in the Palmacston Stakes. He will be reserved for the Wellington Meeting. The withdrawal of the Trentham representative from the Awapimi race will make matters easier for Acre and Winter Wind. Penella (Penury—Seatonelia), who rail second in her first engagement at Taumarunui, is half-sister to Arch Marella and Statuette. In a mile gallop at Trentham on_ Saturday morning, Pacific Slope, carrying a light weight, finished several lengths in. front of Battle Array in lmin 46sec. The names o£ Some Boy and Some Boy 11. both appear among the nominations for the Wellington' Summer Meeting. . General Stephen, who scored in the Dash. Handicap, one mile and a quarter, at Taumarunm, is engaged in the Shortland Plato on the opening day at Ellerslie. He is nearly a full-brother to Escaped, the Tatmiarimui Cup winner. Escaped is by General Latour—Clare, by Cuirassier—Lady • Clare, and General Stephen is by General La-tour—Lady Clare. H. Telford leaves ior Palmerston North to-morrow with. Idleness, Philomela, and Fulica. Bd-Peep and Phio may accompany their stablemates and run at Marion. The last named is not engaged on the opening day, but may run on the second day. Motuihi was given top-weight (9.o)_m the Robinson Handicap on the opening day of the Auckland Meeting, but was allowed to drop out. He will compete in the - Shortland Plate, a mil© race, in which he will only have to carry 7.7, and meets his opponents on. much better terms than in the Robinson Handicap, in which he was conceding eleven others two stone and a half. This is a big handicap for a three-year-old. The mishap to Affectation which caused a report to be spread that he was an unlikely starter in the Auckland Cup, was evidently not very serious ; as he has been paid up for in the two miles race, also the Great Northern Derby and Royal Stakes.

'The only withdrawals from the Railway Handicap" on final acceptance night were Rossini and Torireda. Those backers that got in early and coupled R. J. Mason's pair Karo and Rossini have lost their money Rossini w;is set a pretty stiff task. The writer doubts whether he is good enough to concede Miss. Mimic 241b.

The Taumarunni winner. Gaycium is engaged in the Railway Handicap at Marton, with the light impost of 6.9, which is two stone less than he won with on Friday last, when he only had a moderate lot of opponents to dispose of. Gaycium is liable to be rehandicapped for Marton.

The withdrawal of Alteration from the Auckland Cup will let H. Gray be free to rido Vagabond. The Martian gelding was ridden by the horseman named when he won the double at Manawatu last autumn.

The final payment of twenty soys for the Auckland' Cup .-reduced the field to fifteen. The defections were Mangamahoo (previously, withdrawn), Alteration (who will probably be at New Plymouth), Housewife, Rose Wreath (whose engagement in the Christmas Handicap on the same day has been continued), and Tressida (who will be racing at Manawatu). The local horses engaged at the holiday meetings will males a start from headquarters to-morrow. Sweet Memory coes to New Plymouth in charge of J. Pritchard, while 0. Pritchard is taking half-a-dozen to Manawatu. E. Browne will have charge of the members of J. Ayres's team that compete at Awapuni. Depredation and Alteration, who are down to compete in the principal event at Taranaki on Boxing Day, are wellknown- performers at New Plymouth. Depredation won two hack events at the Christmas M.eetiiig four years ago. Alteration won the. Christmas Handicap two years ago, and finished among the unplaced division last December.