NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 150, 25 June 1921, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Ulanda, the horse that. Ashley Reid I won the Canterbury Park Handicap on on Saturday last, is a five-year-old geniding by liarlstan—Lady Trenchant. waa handicapped at 7.3, but, in consequence of a win at Gosford on the previous Wednesday, would probably have to put"1 up a few pounds extra. -.-■>■■'■ i i • Messrs. Luttrell Bros., of Ohristchorch, the' well-known racecourse archifScts, aro on a business visit to Wellington. ! ,-'. , Among the yinners at Wil.liamstown (Victoria) this month wae Dormeuse, by Bernard—-Berceuse, a Hawkes Bay bred maTe by Birkonhoad—Lullaby. J. Lowe did not make a long stay in Victoria. He was due at Sydney on the 15th inst. According to a Sydney 'scribe, Insurrection would probably be raced at Sydney suburban meetings, before returning to the Dominion: .-.-.' . -.. The wonderfully successful sire, Martian, will beat all previous Dominion records this season. Up to and including Rebuff's win in the Nowetead Hack Handicap at Napier Park on Saturday last his progeny had won £30,494 during the present term. This was made,up of 80 firsts, 88 seconds (including a dead heat) and 69 thirds; Two of' the progeny of Cambrian (Cyrenian—Miss Annie) recently ran first and second in 'a race in Perth. , Gang Awa raced unsuccessfully on both days at the Park. He was well enough treated at Hastings"with 10.0, but was allowed to forfeit his engagement there. He was railed through to Wellington and :shipped " South .last night, in company with Master Strowan.' L. H. Hewitt rode, a winner at MenangleJN.S.W.) recently. Dialogue (Demosthenes—Tete-a-tete), who cost Sir Samnel Hordern 1700gns as a yearling, made his first appearance in the Juvenile Handicap at Moorfield recently, but did not show any,form. Wnen Lord Astolat won on the second. day at Otaki Mort Avis ran second to Dork, and this pair showed up at the finish of the Moananui Handicap at Hastings on Thursday. . Mort Avis is a full brother to Depredation, and is imoroving with the racing he ia having. EngHsh files to hand convey the in-, formation that the brood1 mare Snow Marten (Martagoii—Siberia) slipped . a colt foal by Glasgerion. Snow Marten, who is owned in India, cost the present owner 6000 guineas at the last December sales. Her yearling of 1920 made 4000 guineas. .'..,- l /". . , , ' : -,, Pavilion '/woni. again on the second day at Hawkes Bay, Siftnysian wae successful in the same event'twelve months ago.: •■ From Ireland the death is announced of the biitxid mare Vakreni (dam of The Tetrarch). : She died after foalinjga filly by Prince Ptiillip: The latter is a, son of Roi Herode, bo that the filly is almost a full sister.to The Tetrarch. \. . „." :: In tlie Ladies' Bracelet. at Hastings Prodigal did not' meet Waterform, who beat him at the Park, and1 with the help of Mr. J. Morris/he managed to beat Miiltifual, who is evidently a light of other da.y/5,* because weight would not bring them together. Prodigal and Depredation are in the private-sale list. v The horses,, Merryowen/-met .in^ the.: Hunt.Club Cup at Hastings"he' defeated ! at the Park thepreyioug-week.-w-hen.he' ran second to Signysian and got the stake": through interference. Merryowen j (StrbwanT-rMercia) js,.a".halfi-brother..to. Burgess (by Captain Webb),. a ■ useful performer in the' hunter class in Hawkes 1 Bay a o6upl,e of seasons backi i . Raumariawhiri, winner, of the' Kidi nappers Hurdles at Hastings on Thursday, ' ran" third ;t6 Peniiry. Roee" aridi Fiddjestrjng on the concluding" day at the Park. Simon wasjn the field, being, asked to concede, the winner three stone, but he failed to get iri the money. ''...■ Sir Roseberry "was.'beaten at tie Park and Hastings, iwhere his h^f^brother (Penury Rose) had a record of two wins out of as many starts.' ' ' ■ ' - Paddington - Green, who was entered for the'steeplechase events at; the A'-JiC: Winter Meeting, also- the Great- Northern, made bis first appearance in a crosscountry race at; Hastings: on Thursday, and, meeting, a weak field, had no difficulty in ivoring. Molyneux 'has raced most consistently in his last half-dozen starts. He was second to Vok> and third to Tame Fox at Otalri, first and third at_NapierPark, and first and second at Hawkes Bay. Ho has gone on improving, and at.Hastinps defeated Heatbersprigl. GoWßnd, the half-skter to Gold; Kip, wae 'produced on the secondl day at Hastings, but failed to show tip prominently at tHe finish of the race. ■ It is reported that Mr. W. R. Kemball is thinning out -his big team, and that. Racefnl has been aold to an Auckland buyer for 1500 guineas. ' Te Toa appeared the best of those in tho Woodlands Steoplecfaase at Hastings on Wednesday, but he failed to complete the course, and the race went, to Reparoa (Sylvia Park—Ustane), rnnnerup 4 to KohinaMna at the Park. Reparoa is ,'owned by Cuthbei.t -MnTse, the wellknown Gisborne trainer. >' G:- Clarke will do the riding for Mr.H. W. Brown's stable next season., : Rangi Thompson, who rode Gay Boy to victory in the Hawkes Bay Steeplechase, had previously won that event on Glenmore.