NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8330, 16 January 1913, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By " The Judge.")

The southerner My Lawyer han come into some favour tor the Woliiugton Oup. tie has any amount of pace, but whether he can run out a solid mil© and a half remains to bo seen. He is a galloper who likes the ground firm, out not too hard.

The Government tax on the Wairarapa meeting to L6OO. On the Stratford gathering it amounted to £571. The Government certainly reaped a golden harvest out of the tax during the Christmas holidays. B. Deeley will have the mount on Dearest in the Wellington Cup. The owner of Byron endeavoured to obtain the services of the Auckland horseman for his gelding, but Deeloy was not free to accept the ride. Gipsy Belle will not be seen out at the Trentham meeting, as she has not yet recovered from a sever© attack of influenza. Prosser will have a big team to represent the beach establishment, among the runners at next week’s fixture being Dearest, Stepney, Styx, Aloha, Parky, Hoopoe, and Hansard. The Porirua stable has not had the best of luck this season, and a good win or two would be popular. Gladiole has been going' very freely in her track work at Awapuni, and she promises to strip a very fit maxe for her race at Trentham next Wednesday. Distinction, who did so well at the Wairarapa meeting, is now in regular work at Awapuni under H. Telford’s supervision. The bay son of Daunt and Intelligence is looking in capital condition.

E. Watson has a fairly good team in work, among the members being Royal Maid, Papaxnarama, Rexer, and Maitist, who will compete at the Foxton meeting. Black Lupin, another inmate of the stable, will be raced at Trentham.

Lady Georgia’s split hoof is reported to bo all right again, in which case she will accompany Powder Pox down from Awapuni for the Trentham meeting.

Lady Ruby, who went wrong after the Marion meeting, has been sent home by her trainer. Sir Knox, Overrate, and Otter are to bo brought down from the Wairarapa for the W.R.C. meeting. AU three are well, the former especially so, and he is expected to run prominently in the Cup, particularly if there is any rain to take the sting out of the ground-

The name of Blacfcall has been claimed for the yearling half-brother by All Black to Nootuiform, Nightfall, Midnight Sun, and Moonbria.

T. I*. Quinlivan will leave Hastings this morning for Wellington. He is bringing with him Midnight Sun, Moonbria, Tatterley, and Koonya. The two former will be taken to Sydney on Friday by Ken Quinlivan, and on arrival they will go into H. Raynor’s stable.

Moonbria. who is a half-brother to Midnight Sun, is a particularly handsome youngster. He showed good form at Dannevirke, but subsequently went amiss.

Since the A.R.C. meeting Jason has been eased oS in his work, and will not bo asked to do much until the Easter meetings.

The Hawke’s Bay pair, Allegory and and Eocene, will not be among the competitors at Trentham, but may be seen out at the Foxton meeting. Murray Hobbs’ Ricoarton stable will bo represented at the W.R.C. meeting with Mowbray, Peg, Salzbury, and Crosbie, all of whom know how to gallop. Bopa, who won the Wellington Cup in 1906 i/nder the light impost of 6.11, holds the time record for the rat . having run the mile and a half in 2min 33sec. Eleven out of the fifteen races for the Wellington Stakes have been won by two-year-old& The three-year-olds to win were Cruciform, Achilles, Solution, and Cuneiform. The W.F.A. scale favours the quick beginning two-year-old. Nominations for the Taranaki Cup and other events to be decided at the T.J.O. autumn meeting close to-mor-row evening.

v J. Thorpe will take Mr D. McLeod’s mare Kakama over to Sydney at the end of this mouth. She will be a runner at the A.J.C. big cup meeting at Easter. The annual sale of the Waikanae yearlings will take place on Friday week, when some nicely bred youngsters will be led into the sale' ring. They are a fine well grown lot, and, after the good deeds of the Waikanae bred ones this season, there should be some brisk competition to obtain them.

The last has been seen of Si? George Clifford’s mare Countermine on the race track, and she has now been retired to the stud. Her turf career has only been moderately successful, victories in the Mosgiol Handicap at Wingatui and the Peninsular Cup at Akaroa being her best efforts for a long time past. She was got by Qmasryman from Safeguard, by Maxim from the Apremout mare Teredo, and is a half-sister to Brave Heart, Stronghold, Fleetfoot, Broadsword, and Scottish Star. Countermine should do well at the stud. Los Angelos was scratched for the Wellington Cup yesterday afternoon.