NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 108, 8 May 1923, Page 11

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(BI " SIR LANCELOT.")

The Egmont Meeting, to he> held at Hawera to-morrow and Thursday, is the first of the jumping fixtures. The running there may throw, some light on the form at Wanganui a week later. The fact that there are only seven events on the card at Egmont will enaile the Telegraph Handicap, for which thirty-three have accepted, to be bracketed as in previous years. Dick, Mervotia, and Ringi are the only horses engaged in the Egmont Steeplechase that' are nofe in the Wanganui Steeplechase. The winner at Egmont is liable to be, rehandicapped at Wanganui if engaged at the last-named fixture. The big field in the Tongahoe Hurdles includes nine horses engaged in the Century Hurdles at Wanganui. .Neither Otaruru Kid nor Penury Rose are in at Wanganui, and they are not liable to be rehandicapped. The Hack and Hunters' Steeplechase field at Egmont includes Te Maire, aWanganui Steeplechase candidate. Ha was sent to Ellerslie at Easier, but fell at the stone wall about two furlongs from home the last time round. Golden Bubble, a good weight-carrier, is asked to give all his opponents weight in the Tonks Memorial. Tame Fox is to make his reappearance in the M'Rae Memorial, but may require a race or two before he is at his best. Askari meets Correspondent, the Hawkes Bay Cup winner, on about a stone better terms than when he Beat him in the Prince of Wales Handicap at Awapuni. Santiago is giving away two stone in the Tawhiti Hack Handicap, and will have the assistance of A. Oliver. Molyneux showed a return to form when he ran third in the Winter Stakes, one mile a-nd three furlongs, at Tattersail's Meeting 1 at Eandwick on Saturday last. The winner,. Mirthmaker, would probably be receiving some weight from the New Zealander. Mirthmaker is one of the Comedy King tribe, from Stranraer, by Wallace. The five-year-old Golden Mixture, by Kilbroney—Medley, won the Trial StaKes.'eJev.o'n furlongs, at/Rosebery, on 23rd April. Golden Mixture was bred in Canterbury by Mr. H. A. Snight, and is the first progeny of Medley, by Varco— Shindy. Thentham trainers on the look-out for winter oats for their charges should note that nominations for the Otaki Maori Eacing Club's Winter Meeting, to be held on-2nd and 4th June, close on Frir day nest. St. Anton (St. .Frusquin—Grig) is a successful sire of sprinters in South Ausr tralift. At Port Adelaide • Meeting recently St. Speed {St. Anton—Speedite) won the John Lewis Stakes, a /weight-for-age race, six and a half, furlongs, in Imin 19jsec, a record for the wheat State, and- St. Roseate (St.. Anton— Roseraorn) won the Cheltenham Park Handicap, five furlongs, in 59sec~equalling the previous best record for South ■Australia. Great' Fun, who figures among the nominations for the hurdle races'at the Egmont Meeting, .is also engaged in the .Great.Northern Hurdle Handicap. He is an' English-bred horse, by Great Sport from Jean's Folly, the dam of Night Hawk, who won the Doncaster St. Leg'er and who is now at the stud in Australia. Great Fun has not raced in the Dominion, but he won a three-mile hurdle race before he left England. Although Otaki trainer A. D. Webster failed to add to his winning record at Blenheim, he still heads the list for the Dominion for the present season with 25 wins. •• "" Chrysostom- made is first appearance .this season in the Mac.edon Handicap, six-furlongs, at Moonee-Valley, on 23rd April, and finished last. He was engaged in the, Khartoum Hurdles, to be run at Caulfield on 28th April: The ex-Wellingtonian, John Whitworth, trained the winner of the Wagga Cup recently. "Pilot" makes the following reference to the win:—"The Randwick trainer, J. Whitworth, has no£ been in luck .for some time, and for that reason I was pleased he won the Wagga Jubilee Cup with Sea Risk, whom he trains for Mr. E. D. Blomfield. No trainer can afford to he out of the lime-; light for any ngth of time. Unless he is responsible, for a full share of winners lie does not attract new patrons, and some of the old ones are liable to turn to more successful men. There are owners who cannot see good in trainers other than those who are having their run of luck, and, unmindful of .what he may have accomplished for them in the past, have" little compunction in dropping a trainer when he fails to continue winning. In the circumstances, their excuses for making a change are often so paltry as to be absolutely contemptible. It is astonishing, too, the ■ men who do worship at the shrine of I success, and I have often listened with surprise to the remark of some allegedly shrewd owner that this or that trainerone having his winning turn, of courseis the only man who knows anything about the business. All trainers, no master how thorough their knowledge are sure to_ have a bad spell, and fortr'mate indeed is the one wjio does not los» some oi ms patrons during that period."