NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6652, 28 October 1908, Page 5

NOTES AND COMMENTS

By "AUGUR." Tho .MasUibon meeting opens tomorrow. Nominations for Feilding meeting dua' on Friday nest. Freddy Davis arrived by the Mono,vai from Napier yeatonlay on route for JJiccarbori, with the following team of Mr T. H. Lowry's Downfall, Bobrikolf, Chan tense and Morrigal. Those wlio competed in last year’s New Zealand Cup likely to do so again tills year are: Zimmerman, .Waster Dolaval, Frisco, Mahuta, (Land .Siam, Apu, Probable and Saga, The big Flemington carnival opens on Saturday next, when the V.R.C. Derby will be run. According to custom the Melbourne Chip is set down for the following Tuesday, the first in the month. Final payments for the following ovents at the C.J.C. meeting are duo on Wednesday next: —Now Zealand Cup, 10 sovs; Stewards’ Handicap,, 8 sovs; Welcome Stakes, 8 so vs; j Derby Stakes, 15 sovs; Oaks Stakes. ) 5 sovs. Mr lan Duncan yesterday received a letter from A. Cochrane, the studgroom in charge at his Waikana© breeding establishment, stating that a ‘Vet’’ had dissected the defunct sire Kilchoran’s head .and found the has© of the skull had been fractured. What a profitable mare old Duclu (by Somnns—Fame), who thrice won tho Wanganui Cup, has proved! Allhough now in her twenty-fourth year she has just foaled a- colt to Terrapin, which constitutes / her eleventh contribution to the stud book. Full Kate, 8.3, who still remains in tho Stewards, appears among tho acceptors For the Publicans’ Handicap at Mastorton on Thursday next. It is now just on twelve months since tho one much-boomed son of Tho Officer and Kimmcr won a race —tho Telegraph Handicap, six furlongs, at Tara tali i-Carterton. Those well known and very popular North Shore (Auckland) owners, tho Messrs Duder Bros., have decided to cancel the racing partnership hitherto existing between them and their various horses will in future race in separate interests, Mr R. H. Duder has registered his colours as red, white and blue jacket and cap. On the concluding day of the V.A.T.C. meeting, tho New Zealandbred Saltare, by Stepniak—Reel, accounted for tho Clwyn Nursery Handicap, beating a field of fourteen. Saltare was sold as a yearling at the last julvj of the Eldcrslie yearlings, for oOgs, at which price ho was knocked down to Mr G. Payne., There was a big exodus of North Island horses last night for the South, in view of the C.J.C. Cup meeting. By the Mararoa wore shipped the Auckland trio, Master Delavai, Master Soult and Elysian, in charge of Denis Moraghan; Moloch, Riflemaid and Sunbonnet (Mr. McGrath); UhJando and Glonullin (H. Eva); Provocation and Expansion (J. Farmer); Vasa and Celaono (A. Shearsby); Whatakura and White Lie (J. Gelhor); Grand Slam and Moriarty (H. Moore), and Signor. Tho Committee of the Avondale Jockey Club is evidently determined to sift to the bottom tho rumours in connection with more than one event at the recent Spring Meeting, They sat again on Friday evening last to further consider the alleged inconsistent running and foul riding, and after sitting till midnight, during which time tho evidence of the rider and trainer of Lucio was taken, the inquiry was further adjourned until Monday evening.. And yet there are still some keen opponents to the introduction of stipendiaries. Next season will probably sec them introduced.