NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4015, 15 June 1920, Page 5

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The hold-up of Lochella at Auckland may mean that he Avill be a competitor / in the Wellington Steeplechase next month. He ivas among the successful competitors at Trcntham last Avinter, winning the Hack and Hunters' Steeplechase on the concluding day, then going on to Riccarton to Avin the Grand National Steeplechase. Acquittal, avlio ended bis career Avith a fatal accident at Gisborne on Saturday, ivas a three-year-old colt by Treadmill—Fair Haven, and w-as full brother to Quarantine, Stevedore, Wharfinger, Sailors' Hope, Happy Captain, and Harvest home. In bis only start as a two-year-old, Acquittal Avon the Lyttelton Plate at the C.J.C. Summer Meeting. This season his only success Avns in the Ruahine Handicap at the Wellington Spring Meeting, after Avhich he ivas sold to a Gisborne sport. Three of the first batch of the pro- J geny of Reputation went into the sale * ring at Sydney in 1919. One of them —a brown colt from Lysbetb named I ■Reputable—Avon the Maiden Plate at ' the'Grenfell Meeting last month. Waikohu, avlio ivas placed on each day of the Gisborne Meeting, is by Finland —la, and is therefore full sister to Maraetotara. The Avell-knoAvn North Island jockey Roy Tapp, avlio has been confined to the Cambridge Sanatorium for some months, is reported greatly improved in health. Anata, avlio ran second to Over There on the opening day at Gisborne, Avon the Maiden Hack Race on Satur- J. day. He is a five-year-old gelding by ! Multifid, from a daughter of Crackshot. The refusal of the seamen to handle racehorses is seriously affecting the arrangements of several oivners and trainers. Mr G. L. Stead endeaA*oured to ship six brood mares in foal at Lyttelton to his neiv place at Cambridge, but ivas unable to do so. The North Island horses at present held up in the South Island make quite a formidable list, and include Arlington, Bab'iisdale, Seadoivn, Coalition, All Talk, Diavolo, Bonrie Maid, Waimai, Torfreda, Murihiku, Prince Martian, and Strategy. G. Clarke, avlio has been out of the saddle for some considerable time, ivas recently granted a license to ride by the Auckland Racing Club. The oivners of Brunsivick and Fagot, avlio cut up QSO soys stake money offered for the principal'jumping events at Gisborne, must have been very grateful to the seamen avlio prevented the foreign competitors getting to the meeting (says the Post.) Judging by the accounts of the tivo events AA r ou by BrunsAvick and Fagot, they must have been the biggest burlesques in the Avay of cross-country contests that have ever taken place in "the Dominion. Cymer (Elysian—Cyirma)"" ivas the only double. Avinner at the Gisborne meeting. The same horses filled the places in the Hurdles each day. A good rise of 241b failed to stop Cymer.