NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8516, 4 September 1913, Page 10

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By “Finland.”) There were some great dividends at! Marlon yesterday, and punters larky i enough to fluke them, should bo able ' to at and look on for the remainder, of tho season. Witched, which scored in tho Hack; Hurdles at Martou yesterday, is cvf-i dently a fair sort. His party was; very sanguine, and I understand that in a trial gallop before leaving Hastings, Bollin was no use to him. It will bo decidedly unfortunate for Sir George Clifford, should the information which has reached us, regard-, ing Masterpiece’s unsouudness,_ have any foundation, for the son of Clan-j ranald and Madowla, .has been regarded in most circles as a horse which will take a power of beating in tho next Now Zealand Cup. Mr O’Kane, tho South Island sportsman. has sold Wedding Bing to Mr A. Chisholm, the owner of Sombrero, etc. The former bought Wedding Ring from Mr G regg after the summer mcotidng ■it Invercargill, and it is understood turned him over at a fair profit. One hundred and fifteen horses leR Perth by train for the annual round of goldfields’ meetings. This ib probably a record, and it is estimated tbat it will rest tbo goldfields’ clubs .£BOO to carry tho horses and thoir attendants to and from Kalgoorlic. | Some of Mr Harvey Patterson’s young horses £ofc foul of a fenro at his stun at Meadowbank cue day last ireek, and injured themselves. One of them was very badly cut. and Mr J. K. Charlton, who was called in to attend to tho 33iji\-ed 'animals, 'found it necessary to put in several stitches. I The grey colt Tho Totrarch, which is 1 looked on as tho most brilliant two-ve.ar-old seen in England fox; some years, added to Iks record late in July, by winning tho rich National Breeders , Produce Stakes Park. Ho won in a cantor and ran the five furlongs with 9.5 in Imin 5 3-ssec. Already The Totrarch has been backed at a short price for the Derby, to oe run next year. Tho Epsom Derby winne-, Aboyeur, carrying 9.10, finished third to Aghdoe 9sfc and Night Hawk Bst in the St. George Stakes at Liverpool on July 23rd. Tho performance of Aboyeur was poor, and the opinion has been expres sed that the present season’s three-year-olds in England are a moderate lot, with the exception of Light Brigade, which was not engaged in any of the classic races, but which has won six races this season without being beaten. As Scottish Star has been thrown out of work and will he mated with Antagonist, the Chokebore stable will not be represented at tho Ashburton meeting next week. Wooloomooloo, which went wrong just prior to tho Grand National meetting. has made his reappearance on the Hastings tracks, and is doing stead; Work. Bravest, which until quite recently was trained by Atlas White on behalf of Mr Tricklehank, has joined J, Cameron’s team, and in future will be under that mentor’s care. Aberbrothock has been having an easy time since his exertions at the . Grand National meeting. Nominations for the 1914-15 and ’l6 classic events of the Canterbury, Auckland, Taranaki, Wanganui, Egmont, Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Manawatu, and Feilding meetings close with the secretaries to-morrow. Nominations for the Hawke’s Bay mooting and first forfeits for the Hastings Stakes and Hawke’s Bay Guineas are due at tho end of next week. Kanaki was thought to he tbo best of good things for the Railway Handicap at Mat-ton yesterday, but ho had to strike his colours to the lightly-weight-ed Golden Glade, 6.9. News from Napier states that Trainer P. McLachlan will leave Wellington to-morrow for Sydney with Loch Mabin and Prince Eddie. Otahu returned his supporters a fine price when ho won the Marten Handicap yesterday. Roosevelt, says a .Wanganui writer, has been showing great pace in halfmile spins on the tracks at headquarters, but the Menschikoff horse is evidently not at his‘best yet, as he failed to gain a place at Marten yesterday. Dustin’s, Ltd., tho well-known caterers of Palmerston and Wanganui, have been appointed caterers at tho Marten races. *