NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 135, 8 June 1923, Page 11

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(BI " SIR lASOElOI.")

Local owners engaged at Napier Park ?hould find it convenient to race at the tlawkes Bay Meeting the following week. WiththeHunt Meeting and the two days at :DaJnu'eyirke the following week owners of jumpers and hunters will have seven days''racing in Hawkes Bay in a fort-night-between 16th and 28th June. Mr. H. S. Moss will take nominations for the Hawkes Bay Meeting up till 8 o'clock tonight. •

From Hastings it is reported that Mr. W. G. Stead is shipping ten horses to Sydney next month. Rorke's Drift has established a record in connection with the Dunedin Birthday Handicap that will take some equalling. In 1916 he won as a four-year-old with 10.0. up, in 1917 with 9.6, and in 1921 with 8.4. He is the only horse that has won with over 9.0 up in the history of the race.

The "Sydney Referee" scribe "Pilot" writes that the New Zealand trainer, G. Price, has done well since he made a start in Sydney last year. He has won seven races, two each with Stony and Nornia' Talmadge, and one each with Loyal Irish, Piers Plowman:, and The Shag. Stony is to be , spelled at Richmond;- owing to having jarred the joint of his' off-foreleg. Stony has run so ;onsistently in mile races that his owner and trainer must be accounted unlucky in not. having done better with him. Vorma Talmadge has had two wins out )f as many starts. She is by The Syoarite, from Miss Vampire, an imported ware, by His' Majesty. The grey mare Yellow and Black (Mira —Yellow Bird) who has been qualifying for hunters' races in the Marton district, is back again in her old quarters at rrentham. Pamplona, the winner of the Otago Steeplechase, is a half-brother by Pallas ';q Lochella, a winner of the Grand Naional Steeplechase, the Great Northern .steeplechase, and Great Northern Hurdles. .' ■ . , The ex-Wellingtonian, H. Cairns, who aas had a successful season in Victoria *nd New. South Wales, would probably nave the mount on Purser in the June Stakes at Randwick. • Guncase, who carried a penalty tor the North Otago win, scored on the .pening day at Dunedin, and on the including day beat Urgency, who had *on on the two previous days. Guncase is one of the useful Calibre breed, from Matchbox, by Buccleuch, from Fireside, by Perkin Warbeck 11., from Blythside, by Stoneyhurst—Alsace. ■Mr. J. Hurley has leased Glenganve (Quarantine— Moiri King mare), to Mr. A. Keith.

At the Kacing Conference two years .cro a motion brought forward by the Stipendiary Stewards' Committee that jhe position of-clerk.of scales be filled by stipendiary officials was moved by the president (Sir George Clifford), and supported by Mr. 0. S. Walkins. ' The rotin? was 22 to. 10, and the majority was insufficient by two votes for it to oecome racing law. Since the rule*; were altered at the last conference 'doing away with the allowance for short weight, there have been several cases sf hardship in which owners have lost (takes through no fault of their own. Some of the cases are appended:—WaDganui.— Putiki Hack Handicap: Mark lime, disqualified and race awarded to Bonibrook. Kurow.—Bellfield Handicap : Sweet Memory—Jackeroo. Blenheim.— Marlborough Cup: Cheer Up—Pantler. Mauawatu.—Stoneyhurst Welter : Lady Kotiripo—lsland. Opotiki (at Takapuna).—East Const Welter: Cool Stimulants—Elsie Aroha. Otaki.—Taipua Handicap: Mireusonta—Solfanello. The )nly owner fortunate enough to get the stake was Mr. J. Williamson, owner of Cool Stimulants. Sir George Clifford and other members of the conference will no doubt agree with the writer that_ the alteration of the rule has resulted in a lot of trouble and unpleasantness for officials of clubs thai might have been avoided had the rule not been altered.

■The committee of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club has passed the programme for next season's meetings. The National Cup, the chief event at the August Meeting, will be^ lor horses that have done 4min 31sec >r better, and the New Zealand-Trotting Oup, the leading event of the season, to oe decided in November, will -be for horses that have done 4min 30sec or better, the conditions.in.each race being a second tighter than'last year. The following horses, have qualified for nonjination in the New Zealand Trotting Cup:— Albert Cling, Agathos; Box: Seat, Dean Dillon, First Carbine, Paul Dufalt, Great Hope, General Link, Locanda Dillon, Man o' War, Onyx, Reta Peter, Realm, Sherwood, Snowshoe, Tri* Pointer, Tatsy Dillon, Vilo, 'Whispering Willie, and Willie Lincoln. Another alteration in the programme is that, with one exception, the two-mile saddle races have been dropped, their places being taken by harness events. The stakes for the year will be £39,500, the same as last season, but i few changes have been made in the alocation. At Canterbury Park on 26tb May, Kilroy (Kilbronoy—Rosyth) won a division of a Maiden Handicap. Kilroy is a brother to Kilfoyle and Warhaven, and is >wned by Mr. John Wren.