NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1927, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

V ..:'■ RACING FIXTURES. ■' The Matamata Meeting to be held toknorow has. drawn the customary big fields of; the Northern province. Quite a useful field is,engaged in the Matamata Handicap. Lord Star, who has shown decided- flashes o£ form recently, seems [well placed at 8.1, and Ned Kelly should run a good six furlongs in the. Railway Pandicap with 8.3. ■ Kunners will be few at the Banks Peninsula Meeting to-morrow. Haze, who was a maiden performer until a lqrtnight ago, is top weight in the Peninsula Cup jwith 9 stone. Margaret Birney promises (to start . favourite. Young Lochinyar should see a short price in the Flying (Handicap. , i The mishap to the two-year-old Jericho jftt Riccarton yesterday was most unforjtunate, Jericho was a very promising juvenile, and his presence in the Challenge Stakea at Trentham would .have added :considerably to the interest in that race. jjßred as he is; by Archery from Judith, jit is to be hoped that he can be saved ifor stud purposes. It is understood that he hag broken a fetlock. .

• Mr. J. F; Buchanan decided on Wednesday to give Battlement another opportunity to earn distinction in Australia, and the Martian gelding will be shipped from Wel|lington yon 13th March in company with 1 Limerick and Calcite. The projected inclusion of Young Lochinvar in Jones's team !has been, abandoned, and the promising •Gay. Lad gilding will be left at Riccarton in charge of- Jones's head stableman, J. Russell to fulfil forthcoming engagements.

(BY "VEDETTE.")