NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 62, 10 September 1921, Page 12

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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'The Maha.watu".Hunt Club's Meeting pk-ill bo held at tn-e~ Feilddrig Jockey ijOlub's course on' Saturday next, 17th instant. The acceptances received are iery satisfactory, and, judging by the jjclass. of competitors engaged, the meetJuig should be> a successful one. . - The principal increases in stakes at Mho 0.J.0. Spring Meeting are as folnovr : —Stewards' Handicap, 500 soys; BFendaltoii -Handicap,-. 400 soys; -M«trcKiolitan Handicap, 250 soya; Steadi' Mejmorial Gold pup, 200 soys. * Mr. R. Knox informed me at Marton toiat he intended to "turn"Penury Rose tout for a spell during the spring and fvunmer- months. 1 The annual meeting of members of ifte Wellington Trotting Club hns been Ipostponed until the 2Tst inst. -. Bouiform had two good-looking representatives at Marton in Ditchley and Spelsbury. The, .latter >yon, as. a two-|year-old, but so far this season Ditchley, jwith two" wins"'out of'as many starts,' Jias, proved the • better of the pair. jDitchley is" a beautifully-actioned filly, jand on good tracks will be seen to ad Wntage in the best of company. Mr. Uohn Murphy is making a good showing ffirifch the, training business for an'amateur. Mr. John M'Mahon, chief stipendiary jteteward, has recently been suffering from pin old complaint,- and was unable in consequence to attend the Marton Meeting, pVfrr A:"'Gordon ~ came' down from Auck-_ Jand to officiate. He had no occasion|during the afternoon to call the Judicial ' jflbtnrriittee together. ,Mr. Fred Lysnar cannot, -by*s any (•tretch of imagination, be considered one taf our lucky owners, and it is needless to my his.wins at Marton were very popuBar. _ Through many lean seasons he has (Continued his long association with H. jHickey as trainer. Although by different Admiral Codrington and Stylish pjLady are closely related on the dams' f'side. They are the produce of Ransyl [(Lysnar spelt backwards] and Iney, who .are full sisters by Birkenhead—Lady vßeay (by St. Leger—Ladybird), full sisjter to Melwood, a successful performer >in this district, who ran second in a iiNew Zealand Cup. Mr. Lysnar informed ';ine>at Marton that he had hot been represented at the meeting*named sine© he jjwas there with Iney, who ran third to SLady Medallist. - Mr. George Currie had a stroke of bad jluck at his Koatanui stud last week, the dam of Loyal Irish, SWipping twins to Absurd. < Affectation looked rough in the coat I»t Marton, but ran a surprisingly good Jrace, as also did Humbug, who does not (Hook nearly ready. This pair are in the '^Flying Handicap at Avondale on the /same terms they met at Marton, and the fcjmter would not be surprised if. HumIjfcug reversed positions with his opponent. , The executive of the New Zealand OTrotting Association will meet in WelSb'ngton on the 30fcli inst., A private cablegram Teceived in Auckland from L. H. Hewitt states that he !,3eaves Sydney for India to-day, having .accepted a retainer to ride for a prominent Indian sportsman. Wheatfield was not produced at Mar.fton, where Quest competed unsucoeasjtfully. The pair named will, represent, JVIr. Eric Riddiford -at Wanganui. The ''/two-year-old entered for the .Debutant •''Stakes will not be-tidwn' through. Mr." Percy Wall'was not present at :;Marton on Wednesday, and 'it is doubtj£ul if the stable participated .to much t/jextent in the big dividend Verbosity paid. ;,' During an interva.l between the races . Jat Maiiton there wias a itwa-year-old viparade with tli3 colours "up. Epitaph ; (Absurd —Euloiry) m last to begin, Ibnt was first to reach the post. Ful- . .some (the full sister to Humbug) was «a -bay, but Sgitnph is a regular Absurd, ka-chestnut with whitij face. Sho will \-jwobably make her first appearance in !?the Avondale , Stakes... .Others to take ,3>art were Abelard (IJonifown —Northern $to;e), Heloise (Boniform—Rose Shield), jtWaterlea (Bomform-—Sunbdrd), and- a j-TOtingster, trained by E. George at New V^Plymouth" .iji. Wilson's team at Wanganui will improbably consist of Maioha, Taijparu, jWnihanga, Warpath, The Hawk; and lithe two-ye»r.-old Viyslla, (Absurd — sSnooze). The Litter is^a half-sister to (by Formby), 'who jumped out 311 the Tutaenui Hack Welter at Mar.■s£jji!<ind led for half a mile. * J*Mr. Eric -Riddiiord too* named his new &Sil>lm> 'at Trenthanv Coalition Lodge, .aiEter the well-known steeplechaser, who Is at present running out at Treratham, ibiifc,wtill later.be transferred to his owner,'s. station! at Orongorongo. T. F. QuirtHyan will probably take up his residence at Trentttam early next month. ,;Mr. Gerald. Stead informed me at Marton that the- injuries which Royal Box sustained at Ellerslie were . -somewhat serious,' and it was' doubtful if he would ever race again. This is'bad luck, as the (Nassau colt-would have changed hands afcil2oo guineas had his owner desired to 'It is a pity that Amythas did not jump /out' with/his opponents in the Railway Handicap at Marton, just to see what he could .have done. Mr. F. S. Easton was not present at the meeting, but some of his friends were confident that Amythas j»6uld run well. ,The writer was impressed with the performance of Grotesque in the Electric Back Handicap at Marton. He carried /9.0 and was only beaten in half a second islower time than Verbosity, a four-year-•bjd, carrying 181b less, put ug in the open event. Grotesque is in the Flying Handicap at Avondaio with 7.5, and at ttfe weights may be better at present /tpan Humbug. Mermin is handicapped ito concede him- 171b. Grotesque'will take .beating in the Avondale Guineas. ■He jcarried a pound more than Rationaldid /i»t New Plymouth and put np faster time. Trainer Jefferd .has secured accommodation for three Jiorsas. at EM«rslie. It is expected that Humbug, Grotesque, and Epitaph will represent the Messrs. (William* at the Pakuranga Hunt and jiyondale Meetings. The yearling colt by Solferino—Formless, .that died at Riccairton recently, .was a half-Mother to the Marton winner .Tinihanga. • Although the A.J.C. Spring Meeting does not open nii'il Ist October, the interest in the spring- racing on the other s-ide 'will commence wiith the Ohelmsford Stakes to he iun at Tatter: .sail's Club ITTeet-inir this afternoon. Tho. field engage! is a. good one, and includes such performers as Richmond Main, Furious (one 'of, the best two-year-olds of - lftst ■ season), Kennaquhair, .SalTtfos, and the \Bomitvion representatives Gloaming, Loyal Irish, and Duo. Last spring the racs was won by the imiioortcd grey horse Chfysolans (by Rpi Herode). He ran pthc nine furlong's in Imin alisoo, under 3.11. and is generally 'cor.'.--idered the fastest horse ever ssnt from England to Australia. Richmond Main iron the rate the previous year when Saiss7iof ran fourth. When Gloaming v;on as a th-res-yeaT-old he ■vva-s making his 'irat ;:.iipearaTice in a race. Biplan? ;'.:ul Ths Fox were among jlho unsucceesf ul ones the previous season, Prince Viridis scored. In 1916

Sasanof beat Woorak and a high-olaes field. Woorak was also favourite, the previous jiear, when GairKn defea-tedl: Wallace Isinglass. Woorak was unsuocessful in the race on his first appearance as . a three-year-old. Duke Pooibe, unbeaten,as a sixtyear-old, won the race two years in succession. Mr. A. N. Gibbons, owner of Kauri King, recently lost the three-year-old filly Eosaform (by Bonrform—-Northern Rose). She was running out at her owner's place and fell info a drain. She was a half-sister to Miss Doval, Swanee River, and Lord Desmond. . The brood mare purchased in> England by the Hon. E. W. Alison is Katasha (1914), by Boppo out of War Lass, by War Dance, wntih a ohestnnt colt foail by Ulsteir King, and served by Chaucer. The thoroughbred stallion Guianforte, by Multiform—La Valiere, who has been doing stud duty 'in Taranaki for some seasons, has been purchased by Mr. Thomas Dunn, of Kempeey, New South Wales. Hoama, winner of the Adelaide Grand -National Steeplechase, was1 unplaced a week previously in the Grand National Hurdles, won by Battle King, a stable mjite of Hoama.. There must be a. .great number of imported horses in training in different parts of the Commonwealth. They have i'Jready made a good starnt iti the first month of the new season. King. Arthur, winner of the principal handicap event at Canterbury Park, is by The White Knight from Lisa. 11., a Hungarian-bred mare by Bowa. Vista. Sundebrook, a winner at Brisbane the same day, is by Sunder—Cranfbrook, by The White Knight—Sal. A younger full sister to Cranibrpok '-was also senlt to Australia. Sonirardrie, a winner at Adelaide the same day,. is by Bachelor's Double — Transparence, by Isinglass. Sonhardrio was foa-led in England and sent to Australia with Ms dam. He is a halfbrother to Duke of Sparta, a good English perfcrmer. . In reference to the handicapping of .Loyal Irish in the Maitland Cup, "Pilot" wrote as follows:—"It is _ only reasonable to suppose the handicaipper_ must have been unaware of th« identity of the hoirse, but as no doiißt Loyal Irish was properly entered, I can-not see that anything- can be done to -interfere with his weight. It only seems necessary for a horse' of Loyal Irish's class to_ be a moderate stayer to-score with an impost of 6.7. Though he. is not thoroughly wound ito, ho should win this if be has genuine Derby pretensions, and I fancy his trainor holds that opinion. Loyal Irish has had) a couple of long- soins during- the past week, and, though I am not yet prepared to accent _ him as n, genuine distance horse, conditions are bo favourable , that he should - pull through."