NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 81, 5 April 1923, Page 10

NOTES AND COMMENTS

'(BT "SIR. LANCELOT.")

In.' starting the .Thompson. Handicap at 9.0, the lowest weight allowed under the rules; Mr. Coyle has'made what must be considered a'• flattering ' handicap. Battle Scene, winner of the Great' Easter, was .not engaged, but Silver Peak and Kick' Off, winner and-runner-up in the Great Autumn, are in the list, also Roseday, winner of the Easter Handicap at Eller'slie. The latter has gone up to 8.10. Gold Light was beaten . out' of a place in the mile race at Ellerslie with 8.1, and with a pound more she cannot be considered to be fired into the Trentham race.; '

The local owner, Mr. W. J. Jorgeneen, was among tho buyers at Messrs. Inglis's sale of yearlings at Sydney on Tuesday. His purchases were a chestnut colt by Sands of the Orient, an imported horse by Rocksand, and a successful sire in New South Wales, from Elsie May, by Flavus, from Lady Ely, by Maltster, from Lady Kama,, by* Graf ton, and bay colt by imported Roseworthy, from Burletta, by Wallace—La Toaca, by Robinson Crusoe—Nightmare, a successful, family, to which the New Zealand performers, Noctuiforin, Nightfall, Bori Ton, Midnight Sun, Bon Reve, and | others belong. The Burletta colt is halfbrother to Radnor, a successful weight; for-age performer in Australia. Judging by the official figures which appeared in yesterday's "Post," there was a big falling-off in the number of persons that travelled to the Wairarapa Meeting by rail, as compared with last Easter. The estimate shows that the; falling-off for the two days amounted to 400, about two T fifths of the total number that travelled. This is' a matter that might receive the consideration of the stewards of the racing club for a solution of the difficulty. At present the club subsidises conveyances running between Featherston and the course. The improvement of the road over the hill should be completed before the New Year meeting, and failing any improve-, ment in the railway service the club might consider assisting owners of vehicles that travel by road from town. The yearlings being sold in Sydney, sired by Valais, are the second! batch of that sire's stock. This season Valrona; Valiant, and Vallary, three of the first batch, have shown good form.. The colt from imported Chersonese (by Chelandry from Goldfinch) is half-brother to Cimbrica, by Shepherd King, a three-year-old winner at Rosehill. Chersonese is half-sister to Neil Gow, Traquair, and Skyscraper. This colt was probably purohased for Mr.' George Tye, owner of The Monk, for whom C. T. Godby trains. Mantua, Angelo, and Warhaven, who* were placed in a mile race on the con : eluding day of the Southland Meeting, were all seen to advantage over the distance named at Riccarton. Warhaven dead-heated with Urgency, and the other pair won outright. The performers named, with the exception of Angelo, are. all engaged at Trentham.

Mr. Andrew Robertson was a passenger for Melbourne. yesterday by the' Moeraki. He took with him'the Martian —Bronze colt purchased" for Mr. Sol Green at the Wanganui sales. Mr. Robertson intends later to pay another visit to England with a view to purchasing blood stock for Victoria. _ . L. Boles is appealing against his disqualification \in what i 3 known as the Tama-a-roa case. The conference appeal committee will sit in Wellington on the 11th inst. ■.■..'• .- Mr. H, T. Hume, who was represented at ths Wairarapa Meeting by Prideaux, is a brother to the well-known Wairarapa owners Messrs. G. and W. Hume. About twenty years ago Mr. H. T.Hume raced Czarina, Chatterbox, and Speculator in the Wairarapa about the time that General Gordon, another of .the Tattler breed, owned by the late Mr. Kenny M'Kenzie, was the boss hack. Achilleus who terminated his career while competing in the Riverton Steeplechase on Monday, was foaled in 1911, by Achilles, from Dexterity, both wellknown and successful performers. Achilleus was a full brother to Achilledes, but neither was very successful, although both won races. Fleuriste, whose running at Randwick caused some discussion, was owned "by Mr. Eric Connolly, a popular Victorian, who trains his own horses^ Fleuriste is an imported horse by Bonarosa —Floutina. He ran at Randwick in the spring, when he finished second to> his stable mate, Rostrum, in the Epsom Handicap. He failed to get placed in the Doncaster Handicap on Saturday, and won the Flying Handicap, a six furlongs race on Monday.- The cable does not state whether he was sold to Mr. Kelso, presumably the well-known Sydney trainer, before or after the race. The price was probably 760 guineas—not 7500 guineas— as appeared in the cable message'in yesterday's issue. ■:, _ ; Qwners and trainers are given a reminder that acceptances for the first day of the Wellington Racing Club's Meeting close to-morrow, at 9 p.m., with Mr. A. E. Whyte, secretary.