NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 154, 30 June 1926, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Acceptances for the first day of the WelJington Meeting and for the Winter ■Hurdle Eace are due to-morrow at 9 p.m. Entries for the Trial Plate close at the same time. Rapine is reported to be going along nicely at Ngatarawa in view of racing in the spring. Joy King is also wintering well and is in steady exercise. The trip to Australia has, however, not yet been decided upon. The Southland apprentice, L. J. Ellis, will leave for Australia this week under engagement to pilot light-weight performers in Melbourne for three months. Little Ellis is to ride principally for Mr. M'Dermott, who . recently purchased Tommy Dodd, and it is stated tliat the establishment of the .trainer concerned, ■■W. J. Harley, shelters some smart gallopers. The local lad will go' across to Sydney and travel by rail to Melbourne to take up his duties at Caulfiekl, writes "Sir Modred." It is a hue chance for this budding horseman to see something of the /World and gain an inkling of the riding (skill possessed by a number of the crack horsemen of Australia resident In .Victoria, while it means race-riding practice that will not come the way of his young rivals in New Zealand for some months to come. Mr. J. S. Barrett has sold the four-year-old gelding, Count Cavour, to an . Australian buyer, at a price which is not disclosed, but which is a substantial one. Count Cavour, who is by Solferino —Bon Bon, was the* most successful of last season's three-year-olds, winning, among other events, the New Zealand Derby, Great Northern Derby, Great Northern St. Leger, and Punedin Guineas, his stake money for the season amounting to £5755. This season's victories include the Clifford Plate, at Auckland, and the Dunedin Cup. If arrangements are completed, Count Cavour will leave for Sydney this week by the Ulimaroa, with F. D. Jones's team. Mr. H. F. Nicoll has Bold the two-year-old filly, Haydock, by Key de Oro from Victoria, to the Auckland sportsman, Mr. G. M'Millan, owner of Sea Pearl and Dillon Wilkes. Haydock finished second to Eichore in the New Zealand Sapling Stakes at Ashburton early in the month. She ia a high-class pacer and promises to play an important part in the settlement of next season's three-year-old classics. With the ■ conclusion of the Hawkes: Bay race meetings last week, the list of winning trainers, jockeys, and apprentice jockeys for the season, closing on 31st July, is as follows: Trainers: C. Geiseler, 36; F. W. Ellis, 25%; F. Higgott, 25; J: T. Jamieson, 25; J. H. Jefferd, 24%; S. G. Ware, 24; S. J. Reid, 23Vi; 0. Cox, 20. Jockeys: R. Reed, 75%; C. Emerson;----69; J. Barry, 58; L. G. Morriß, 56; M, M'Carten, 50; B. H. Morris,, 47; E. A. Keesing, 41; R. J. Maekie, 39; H. Wiggins, 35%; J. Beale, 34. Apprentice jockeys: W. S. Bagby, 35; T. Green, 24%; A...E. Didham, 16%; L. J. Ellis, 15%; C. Eastwood, 15; R. H. Burns, 14; and W, Brown, 10. i The price, 250 guineas, paid by Mr, *J). O, Rutherford for Tuahine at Hastings last week, is considered in Hawkes <Bsy racing circles to be very reasonable from the new owner's point ofs view, as she is a young mare who seems to have more races left in her. Amongst other successes, she figured as the winner of the Avondale Guineas in 1924. Well bred, she would make a suitable brood mare, as. she is' imbued with desirable strains of; blood, being by Lucullus (son of Ard Patrick) from Persia, from Marble Arch' '(son of Isinglass) from Latona by PhoeJbus Apollo (son of unbeaten St. Simon) from Antelope, by the French-bred sire, 'Apremont. Tuahine's name appears amongst the nominations for the Winter Cup. ■ • • ■ ' . . Owing to his wife's indisposition, C Emerson has cancelled his proposed holiday trip to Australia. Although Mr. E. S. Luttrell has freely, nominated his horses, Bon Avis, Beau Geste, and Bachelor for coming events in Australia, it has not been definitely decided that they will make the trip. The last named has been harshly treated by the handicapper. Having started three times,: and met with defeat on each occasion, the lanky chestnut hag no form to warrant such treatment from the weight-adjuster, ,The other two-have never started and they also appear to have their share of weight. Much will depend on the improvement; shown by the trio, between now and the end of July, whether the trip will be undertaken or not.. Dr. M. G. Louisson is to be congratulated upon again hitting out and purchasing a two-year-old colt by Poltava, by Polymelus from the Derby winner, Taga;. 3ie. Dr. Louisson has not enjoyed the good •luck he deserves, but with a nice yearling fey Kilbroney from Mazurka in preparation for next season, and his new purchase, his colours may be conspicuous next* «eason. In announcing the fact that the Aga Khan had made an offer of £100,000 for .the four-year-old horse, Solario, the London cablegram received stated that the sum ranked as a record. The cablegram, however, should have stated equal to a previous record, for a like sum was offered by a Russian sportsman for The Tet-. rarch at the close of the grey colt's two--year old career. Major M'Calmont, however, declined to sell. In referring to the Incident in an article which he penned for a London journal, Mr. H. S. Persse said: "When I conveyed the. offer of £100,000, jto Major M'Calmont he smiled and laconically replied: 'I don't think.' The remark.able fact about the £100,000 offer was that .it was made after The Tetrarch had finishled his two-year-old career. So' that if we 'Lad sold him with his engagements he ,would probably have only won one race— the Two Thousand Guineas. That does' »ot mean to say that the purchaser would iave made a bad bargain. In stud fees alone The Tetrarch has already gone a Jong way toward earning welljiver £100,000If we had sold him to Russia I am afraid iThe Tetrarch would soon have perished for 1914 was the year-of the outbreak of--the war. But that fate was not to befall' him. The Tetrarch is apparently bookedfor a long age." There is one important difference between the offers made for The Tetrarch and Solario. At the time the offer of £100,000 was made for The ietrarch, 'the spotted wonder figured in the Two Thousand Guineas, Derby, and bt. Leger, and his prospects of winning the triple crown were regarded as especially bright. The Tetrarch failed to train on properly, so that, viewed in a financial sense, the Russian sportsman had good reason to rejoice over the fact that Major MCalmont declined to sell his horse As <•, ? rlo ' the offer for him was not made until he was about to enter on his four-' year-old career. Possibly the particular race the Indian nobleman had in mind when he endeavoured to buy Solario recently was the Ascot Gold Cup, which event comes up for decision this week. A Press Association message from Sydney states that Cawnpore (8.3) has been «dded to the Epsom Handicap. Cawnpore was overlooked when the list of entries was supplied to the handicapper.