NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7929, 12 October 1911, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By '’The Judge.”)

After Volsloane won the Epsom Handicap at Bamlwick, his trainer, J. Houngan, was kicked on ono of his thighs by a horse in a stall adjacent to tae Epsom winner., Hourjgau had to be removed from the course tor medical treatment. The “Pink W tells the following story of an liisli trainer, now dead, but who was prominent in Bngland in. nis day: “On one occasion ho luid a Horse running that was not on the job. /to gave tho apprentice boy, who was riding, direct orders to run out at trie turn, and then, Ending pursuit hopeless, to pull up his horse. The horse, however, was x too mucli for the boy. Ho ran wide all right, but then went on and won, mucli to the annoyance of the trainer. IHe boy, knowing wnat to expect, did a booooii! That was as bad as the winning. 'JUiugh, ye divil, laugh!' ‘exclaimed the trainer. ‘Now's tho lime to look plazed. Yo nill cry enough when I get you homo to-night/

Mr 11. P. Whitney has a huge string of yearlings in the United States. According to tlio “Thoroughbred Record" (Lexington, Ivy.), ho has no fewer than forty-two yearlings at his Brookdalo stud. Now Jersey, in addition to the lot of fifty-seven recently purchased from Mr .1. It. Jvceno, making a total of nmetyiiine. Many of those will no doubt in due course be sent to England to A. J. Joymior, at Newmarket. ■ The New Zealander Soultlino is again showing form in India. At Poona a,fow weoks ago ho easily won tho Midsummer Plate, six furlongs, with 9.12, beating tho Australians Paul Pry 8.2 and Tapgaroa 9.9 in linin U !i-sseo, while Aborigine was one of the unplaced lot- On the 6th of lust month, however, with odds laid on him. and carrying 9.5, ho could only dead-heat Hoppner (7.9) for tho Poona Plate, fivo furlongs.' Tho race was rim in. Imin 1 4-ssoc, and the dead-heaters divided. Tahgaroa, with B.S. won the Trial Plate, one mile, at tho same fixture, Aborigine (9) being beaten’ out of a place. Black Douglas, who is showing excellent form lately accounted for the Criterion, seven furlongs. The Aucklander Apologue! was among the starters for the last-men-’ tioned race, but Unless ho has changed considerably since ho left Australia, it was scarcely to ,be expected ho would shine in a sprint-