NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4011, 10 June 1920, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Judging by recent results there does not appear'to be iaxicli fear of the name of the illustrqus Carbine dying out. The Englfeh" Derby onkop) ; was aired,by. Spearmint, (son or Carbine), Gleneanriy (winner of tthe Cornwall Handicap .and York Welter Handicap, and 1225 sqvs in stakes at lUlerslie) was ,sired in South Australia oy I istol, a successful winner producer in the wheat State. Glencanny is a solidly-built -horse "on ihis ttam's side. Bridge of Roses is- ah'imported mare -by Bridge, of Canny, from Lady Penzance, by Queen's Birthday. In his last 'three starts Lochella has won 2500 soys in stakes. He was lucky to get in the Century Hurdles with 9.8, and . the Great ; Northern Hurdles with ibhe same ; weight, also the V.R.C. Grand National, weights for which appeared: ten days, after the Century Hurdles wa_ run, with 9.10. Master Strowan fell at the first ience in the Steeplechase on the con- ™, g d ' a, y of the Dunedin meeting. _ The fact of Lochella being.engaged in the forthcoming V.E.C. grand nationals will serve to invest, the big Jlemmgton double with much New Zealand, interest should Mr Acton Adams , be able to secure the transportation of his well-performed horse to Sydney at an early, date. • For*'the Grand National Hurdle Race Lochella was originally weighted at 9.10, but n, 'lb penalty comes to him as there■sult of his win at Ellerelie, which will have the effect of raising "his impost to 10.3. In -the Grand National Steeplechase Loohella was awarded 10.12, but as a result of his victory in, the Great Northern Steeplechase he will now be required to carry. 11.5. The V.R.C. Grand it may • be , remarked, always beats the New Zealand division,.but as the saying goea, horses hailing from Maoriland .have been found knocking on the door on occasions. Three decades back E. J. llae went near to winning the double with Donald and Tito Kowaru, that pair running second in their respective engagements at Flemington. .Five years back Tim Doolan, who. carried, Mr G. L. Stead's colours, beat-all his opponents in: the, V.R.C. Grand: National Steeplechase with the exception .of Flash Jack; and two years after Waimai carried Mr T. Wilson's' colours into third place'behind Old Mungindi and Caibye in the same raco. A win for a New Zealand horse at Flemington is overdue, and it will be highly pleasing to chronicle that Lochella has succeeded in interrupting the ill-luck that has followed horses from this quarter in the big Flemington double for such, a long stretch of years.

Slowcoach ran sufficiently well at Ellerslio to quite explode the opinion at one time fairly popular that ho was of smallaccount. In the Great Northern Hurdle Race, Slowcoach came home third to Lochella and Mill o' Cowrie, and in the Great Northern Steeplechase he beat all his opponents save Lochella. The manner in which Slowcoach negotiated the big fences was decidedly "creditable; indeed it might be ranked' , ,.with the best that has ever been registered over the Ellerslie steeplechase "course by a maiden performer. ■ The racing thait; Slowroach has gone through at Ellerslie should do him a lot of good, and he will be worth watching for events ahead. He scored in the- Steeples yesfcer'dav. '.'"'■' The official statement that comes from Christchurch to'the effect that the jockeys, L. H. Hewitt, J. O'Shea, and E. C. I?ae, have lodged notice of appeal with the Racing Conference against their suspension by the Auckland district committee, would appear to point to wise counsels having prevailed, and that it i« lipyr. recognised that there is a, right, arid a wrong way in going ab'oui such matters. The date for the hearing of the appeal will not be fixed until after Sir George Clifford's return to Christchurch. Mr W. It. Kemball has invested