NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 34, 9 February 1926, Page 13

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(BY "VEDETTE.")

,*lf present intentions are adhered to, Te Horianui will take his place in the Tara-» laki Cup field on Thursday, and unless :he niembers of the opposition race a rreat deal better than they did at Havera he should not have much trouble with all his 9.7. Te Monanui should be In Australia some time before the Sydney Dup weights appear, for they are not due antil Bth March.

.-. J. .T. Jamieson will have a big team racing at New Plymouth if the acceptances are'any guide, for included in the list are Letter of Credit, Ring the Bell, Cocoanut, Le Choucas, and Daylight. It will be surprising if he does not get a * lhare of the stake-money with all of them. Thb time last year one would have ridiculed the idea ot Pelham and The Lamb g" ving weight to Hipo, yet in the Flying andicap at New Plymouth on Thursday this state of affairs prevails. ' H. Wiggins was in great form at Gisborne on Saturday, riding four out of the eight winners. ■ - H. Nurse has taken up at Riccarton a - half-sister by Greyspear to Filliewinkie. .The filly carries a scar on her. foreleg, ■ evidently the result of contact with a ..wire fence, but whatever the nature of : the injury it does not restrict her action in any way. Among the mares mated with All Black • this season was Aurarius. She was sent ' from New Zealand in the hope" that she might produce another Desert Gold or Nigger Minstrel. "I am confident in my j'ewn mind that Nigger Minstrel was the i best of the three-year-olds we saw in Australia last year," writes "Beacon" in the -Melbourne "Leader." "With all the luck against him he ran 'Heroic to a head in '(.the A.J.C. Derby. He would assuredly - have won that race had all gone well with .him after the Rosehill Guineas, which he won."

F. Christmas has had a three-year-old : ;filly by Sunny Lake from a Bonny Glen '■■ mare placed under his care. ' When Glentruin was allowed to forfeit her engagement in the Publicans' -Handicap, it appeared as if the idea o£ sending her to Wingatui this week had been abandoned. The imported mare has been sent South, however, with the other members of T. H. Gillett's team. She is engaged on the second day in the Hazlett ■Memorial Plate, and she may take her ;. place on Saturday in the field for the -weight-for-age event, in which her stablemate, Count Cavour, also figures. "■'~ A wise policy was pursued with Kil/fane when he displayed symptoms of "etaleness early in the summer season by ."affording the Sunny Lake gelding a spell. He was given his liberty in a well-grassed ; 'paddock, and as a result he has returned . to join R. M'Kay's team at Invercargil!, . obviously freshened up, states an exchange. He is very much on the big side ''jat present, but he appears to be quite ; sound and eager to gallop when taken on ■' to the local tracks. Tarleton has been ridden in his recent 'work by C. Eastwood, who rode him into ■ second place in the Consolation Handicap '. at the recent meeting at Trentham. The -association seems a happy one, and the ■Nassau gelding, with Eastwood up, might „ be- prominent in the Dunedin Cup. Carnot's entry in the Trial Stakes at Wingatui came as a surprise. The Clari ; enceux gelding has previously run some good races on a comparatively light pre---paration, but is still a maiden. He has been in the money seven times in nine starts, made up of five seconds and two thirds. It will not be surprising if he /breaks his status at Dunedin, where his presence will probably require the substitution of another rider for J. Beale On . Cornstalk. . ■«,''.,. ■ The Dunedin Jockey Club Committee .has apparently, determined to carry out necessary improvements at Wingatui. The contemplated improvements include ■ a new stand for the outside public and a tractor' that will greatly facilitate the ■ necessary work towards keeping the tracks " in order.