JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 67, 21 March 1933, Page 4

JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

The Grand National Steeplechase will be run at Aintree on Friday, and the result will .be known in the Dominion on Saturday. • '■'■■_

' The Manawatu Racing Club's Autumn Meeting, which opens tomorrow, will be concludedon Thursday. The only other racing this week will be at Oamaru on Thursday and Saturday, and at Tauranga on Saturday. It was intended to race Golden AVings at Riccarton at Easter, but his connections missed the Great Easter entry on Friday, overlooking the closing .date. The champion steeplechaser Billy Boy continues to thrive p_a the useful work he is being allotted at Ellerslie, and he should be well forward to contest jumping events at the Auckland. Autumn Meeting. Another of R. W. Lewis's charges, Demylus, is also acquitting satisfactorily, and will do some schooling in the next few weeks with a view to contesting the hurdle races at Whangarei. ■ Advice has been .received from Te Awamutu that Protomint"'has resumed'work again -at that qentreu He is. stated to be in good order to undergo a further preparation, though it will be soma time before he is back to racing form again. This horse is very partial to soft going and should be capable of paying his way during the winter months.

Whatever happens from now on in the two-year-old races remaining to be contested- in the Dominion this season it can hardly Eeriously affect the claim of Dole to be rated the season's best youngster. He has no classic engagements, and as handicaps are out of the question he will not bej seen out again'till next season. .

The racing they have had lately has wrought marked improvement in the condition of Manawhenua and Taneriri, states an Auckland writer, and the pair are coming back to form just at a period when they are likely to get easy tracks to suit them. There is always a doubt regarding Tanerirj, who is nj>t thoroughly sound, but he is standing up to his work well and promises to return right to his best.

Rory Mor is the latest addition to the ranks of the jumping brigade at Hastings, says a Hawke's Bay writer. He is just the stamp, that should turn out well at the business, aa he carries weight, has heaps ot pace, and is one of the courageous sort. He is looking an improved horse, and with an element of luck on his side' may confidently be expected to atone tor the many-failures that have in recent months been recorded against him, Middle_ Watch, who was a crack three-year-old in Australia last season, was sold at auction in Melbourne a fortnight back for 200gns, the purchaser being the wellknown owner-trainer, W. Tindall. The chestnut yearling colt full-brother to La Moderne sold by Mr. J. E. MeKenzie last week to Mr. H. J. Stanbridge was purchased by Mr. MeKenzie in utero of his dam, Lady Ball, at the Flaxmere Stud dispersal sale, the price paid being 200fns. Lady Ball at present has a foal at foot to Eoyden, and is in foal to him again

ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. '■Inquirer."—Gay Idea was scratched for the Storey Memorial on the second day of the recent Waikato Meeting at 1.4 p.m., day of race.