NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 143, 18 June 1924, Page 18

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Nominations .'for the WeKngtoa Racing Club's Winter Meeting clobo on Monday next, and handicaps for the opening day are due to appear about Friday, tho day after*Hawkes Bay.1 Spoony, formerly. trained by F. Quinlivan at'Trentham, haß gone into J. T. Jamieson'g stable at Papakura.- The trainer named has several Auckland patrons. • ' . ' Farceur put up a good weight-carry-ing performance in the Exeter Handicap, a mile race, at the A.J.C. Meeting. He carried 10.13, and ran the distance named in lmin 383 sec. There was a falling-oS in the entries received by the Canterbury Jockey Club for its class races' that closed on Friday. The numbers for each race are as follow, those for last year being shown m parentheses:—"Welcome Stakes, 7tt (96); Middle Park.Plate, 71 (64); Champagne Stakes, 98 (113); 33rd Challenge Stakee ' (yearlings only), 84 (86); 34th Challenge Stakes, lOs (121); New Zeatland Derby Stakes, 121 (132); New Zealand Oaks Stakes, 55 (64). This year's total is 620, as against 676 in 1923. I Rahda, winner of the Marlborough Hurdle Race at the Y.R.C. Meeting, is in the Grand National Hurdle Eace'with 10.2. Rahda is trained by the ex-New Zealander, D. J. Price, a successful man with jumping horses a few years, back. I S. W. Reid, trainer of Ghrysostom, rode Rahda. Since he left. Trentham Kilroe has been trained by J. Buchanan at Ellerslie. ,It is stated that after racing at Hawses Bay, Kilroe and Polonett, also owned in Gisborne, will be. under the care of W. Quinton, who did well with Anxious Moments. . \, N Radial, who' retains his form well, is top-weight in the Ashburton Handicap, a mile race, with 10.4. He ran second in the King Edward Handicap over the same distance on the concluding day at Dtraedin when carrying 10.6. Carrying 9.4, The Monk, won the Royal Handicap at the V.R.C. Birthday Meeting. Palelight (Absurd-rStar-glow), a stahlemate of The Monk, also ran second in the Princess Handicap for two-year-olds; Galway, who ran twos seconds in open company at Dunedin, is engaged in hack company at Ashburton. ■ He is conceding two stone to Sherlock, runner-up -to Red Sol on the concluding day at Wingatui. The Otaki contingent engaged at Napier Park, consisting of Happy Days, Detroit, and Gang Awa, were railed through yesterday. They were all responsible for useful track work beforei leaving home. .Dunedin winners engaged at Ashburton include Le Forte, Clareina, Kukume, Dancing Days, and Weldone. '. H. R. Lorrigan left for Napier thi= morning with Bonlita, who is engaged on the second day at the Park. Bonlita may also compete at Hastings before returning to'Trentham.Royal Star, who ran two good races at Sonth Canterbury, is in the Hurdles at Ashburton. He may^find most difficulty in conceding weight to Le Forte, who ran three good races at Dunedin, and Flying Master, who was in the money each day at South Canterbury. Pillage and Radiac have recently been schooled over hurdles at Otaki, and shaped promisingly. Radiac is a fullbrother to Wamba, who did well at the jumping business, and is built on the right lines^ for a steeplechaser. . ■: A cable appeared in the; Sydney papers recently stating that Mr. Eric Riddiford, the Wellington owner, \at present on a visit tb the Old Country, had purchased ,-Grarid Knight, a three-year-old colt, by Grand Parade—Jennesse, ' and that the horse would be shipped to the Dominion during the .next few weeks. Grand Knight was a fair performer as a two-year-old in England. '■'■■, Recently it was .cabled that a pony got on to the track at the Brisbane Cup Meeting. It happened, while the Sires' Produce Stakes, in wheh seventeen two-year-olds started, was- being run. The Brisbane correspondent of tho ' 'Referee makes the following 'reference to the affair :—ln its mad career the run-away—a mere sulky pony —stuck to the rails. The smash was then'inevitable. It happened between the four and three*, furlong posts. Acre, ridden by P. 6'Sullivan, who was holding the slightest advantage over Cheviotdale (J. King) in the lead, met. the full force ; of the impact. Then in quick succession Highland (Tilbury), Sucrapiel (J. Muiiro), Overcast (J. Conquest), and Playtrix (J. Toqhey) came down. Hopeful of the best, and yet fearing the worst, the crowds awaited the return" of the ambulance. Four' of the jockeys were seen sitting up in the par, and it was then that pent-up feelings gave way to cheering. They had providential escapes. The only one injured was P. O'Sullivan, who. sustained a broken ankle, arm, and collarbone, all on tho right', side. 'His mount, Acre, never moved, and on examination was found to have a broken leg. It was shot. Acre, who was by Linacre from Bertrada, cost its owner, Mrs. A. H. Whittingham, 400 guineas as a yearling. That sportswoman came in for much sympathy for the loss of a horse that promised not only to play a prominent part in the finish of this rich race, but as a racehorse of the future. It transpired that the culprit was a sulky pony i that ■ became' frightened when tethered iii tha carriage enclosure close ( to the Lcger stand. It parted company with the vehicle in. jumping the fence leading '' .on to the course, and even after its remarkable escapade in which itcaused so much damage and spoilt the race, was able to carry its owner away, from the races in the very turn-out from 'which it had torn itself free. Th.c Q.T.C. will, as a result'of this experience, take steps to have the various starting posts linked up by telephone with the official enclosure. Even had such a facility been available on Cup day this regrettable accident could not have been avoided. In the Australian Steeplechase Carawock hit a" fence about five furlongs from home, and nearly stood on his head. Referring to Chrysostom's success, "Cardigan" says that Carawock would have been closer only for hitting the fence at the bottom of the hill, and a word of praise is due,to Wormald, his rider, for the very clever way in which he rode that horse. Wormald has been unlucky in his'visit to Sydney, \as he was on the second horse in both the. big -races.