NOTES AND COMMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2399, 8 April 1931, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Don Jose lias been turned out for a spell. To-date Nightniarch has won 29,88 sovs. in stakesPhar Lap has been insured for £6OOO. The Wanganui Jockey Club will hold a winter meeting with a cut Mistakes from 3600 sovs. to 2200 sovs. A brother to Amp-unis is amongst the yearlings to go under the hammer at the Sydney bloodstock sales. It is stated that Phar Lap had f o be put out of training owing to the development of kidney trouble. It is stated iu a Melbourne paper that Hie price paid for Ammon Ra was 3500 guineas. The Trcntham apprentice L. G. Sinclair has gone south to ride 011 the West Coast circuit. ll is stated that as many as 7000 motor cars have been counted at the Onkaparinga Steeplechase meeting held on Easter Monday. It is claimed that Gloriole is one of the fastest two year olds in Australia. She is from a sister to Gloaming. ! Sir Charles C lifford has been appointed a steward of the C.J.C. o fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr J. S. Barrett. „ | Amongst the recent winners at Canterbury Park (New South Wales) was Topical, who was got by Windbag from Parody, by Absurd from Mimique. | It was stated some little while back that Pink Coat was not likeK to stand another preparation. He now figures in the list of nominations for the Timaru-meeting.

The Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s own officials will officiate at the meeting at Trcntham this month. Mr J. M. Griffiths is acting as associate secretary to Mr H. S. Moss. A North Island sportsman was rather anxious to purchase the promising Riccarton filly Ball Dress but a change of ownership is not likely to be effected in the immediate future. Town Major figures amongst the nominations for the hurdle race to be run at the Timaru autumn meeting. He has been occasionally schooled over hurdles for some considerable time past (says a Dunedin writer). A report from Hastings states that Mr V. B. Williams has decided <o retire from racing, and that the members of the Ngatarawa team will go up at auction at Trcntham on April 18, the date of Hawke’s Bay meeting there. P. V. Mason has broken in three yearlings. They are the brother to Agrion, by Limond : —Waterwings, a filly by Limond—Makepeace, and a filly by Tea Tray—La Paix. They’ are now regular attendants at the track. The Wavcrloy Racing Club has I declined the offer of an extra day’s racing this season, and the permit will be taken by the Opunake Racing Club. The date May 27 has been approved by the Dates Committee of the Conference, and the Minister’s approval is all that is now required. Pateena, King March’s full sister, may sport silk for the first time at the forthcoming Waikato meeting. The filly was one of J. T. Jamieson’s team taken to Sydney last spring, but was sent home early and has two subsequent respites, which seemed to have benefited her. She is in nice order and may make good as a three year old next season. Paper Money’s progeny crop up persistently pretty well all over the Commonwealth. The latest recorded win for this sire was that of The Graphic, a four year old gelding from the Kilbroncy—Success mare Kilbcrry, in the Laverton Handicap (six furlongs) at the W’erribee, New South Wales, meeting last week. It is not often that Mr E. J Watt’s name appears at “unregistered’’ meetings, but at Menangle (Sydney) he produced a winner in his home-bred Mr Kerry,, by Doric from Lady Muskerry, whose race was the first division of the Menangle Two Hundred, one mile. Phis success was notable inasmuch as it was the first to come the way, as a. trainer, of \Y. 11. McLachlan, well known throughout Australia, Great Britain and on the Continent At the recent meeting of the Menangle Park (Sydney) meeting two New Zealand-bred horses in Miss Juliet (Romeo —Thurnley) who accounted for a division of the Maiden Two Year Old Handicap, for which she went out at long odds. The other was the hix year old CatmintQueen Boadicca gelding Kahakura. still racing over there in the nomination of the Auckland owner, Mr W’ezcl Scholium, and his race w-as the Novice Handicap six furlongs.