NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8735, 18 May 1914, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By “Finland.”) AVhiie schooling at Hastings recently, tho Groat Northern candidate Espartero cut himself a bit, but though he lost a lot of blood tho wound is not expected to prove serious. F. Lind, who reconly took over Mi G. P. Donnelly’s jumpers, has El Dorado, Otatara, and Gold Lock under his charge at Grecmneadows. The trio are as line-looking horses as it would bo possible to find anywhere, and if they stand tho necessary preparation, should do thoir owner good service during tho winter. At present, they aro very much in tho rough. Mysterium, which ran second in the Okawa Hack Handicap on tho second day of the Hawke’s Bay meeting, was offered for sale by auction on tho morning of the races, but was passed in at 50 guineas.

T. Payten, one of the leading New South Wales trainers, has fourteen rising two-year-olds to start nest season’s racing. Tho majority aro colts. Another Kandwick trainer, T. Scully, has seven colts and four fillies for the juvenile events. F. McManemin, the Auckland mentor, has more youngsters than any other trainer in the north, he having nine on which to start operations.

The Waipukurau Jockey Club will probably raise tho stakes for their next meeting to £llOO. This sum will, I fancy, be the largest amount offered by any one-day meeting club in the Dominion.

Tho tax payable to the Government by the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club over its recent meeting amounts to £IOOO 13s 9d. This is tho first occasion on which the tax has reached four figures for any race meeting held in Hawke s Bay.

Sir Solo has gone into winter quarters, and will not he brought out again until the spring. He will receive a special preparation for the C.J.C spring meeting, and his name may he looked for in the nomination list for the New Zealand Clip next month. According to private advice received in Christchurch, M. Edwards is leaving Melbourne for the Dominion at the end of this month with the trotters Denver Huon, Dillon Bell, Adelaide Direct, and the three-year-old filly Olive I/., which was sent over by Mr H. E. Nathan to race in the Derby.

Acceptances for the Wanganui Jockey Club’s winter meeting are duo to-day . •. . ■ , r , Silver Monarch has already arrived at Wanganui, in charge of H. Kingan. Some time ago it was stated that Miscount was to be schooled over hurdles, but ha is now to be retained for flat racing.

Among the penalties to be carried next Thursday are Wild Lupin and Playoff, who each, incur 71b extra by their wins at Hawera. This , makes their weights in the Borough Handicap: Wild Lupin 8.7, and Play-off 8-

Tho hurdler Merrie Valet has been showing signs of soreness in the knees of late, but provided the trouble does not prove too serious, he will be raced at the Oamaru meeting.

The latest news in respect to “Tod” Sloan is that he has purchased the New York Bar in Paris, which will in future be known as Tod Sloan’s Bar.

The question of handicapping is to be discussed at a meeting of the Owners’ and Breeders’ Association on Wednesday next, says “Templar,” in the Christchurch “Sun.” It is understood that a proposal is to be brought forward recommending the desirability of never letting horses out from 'their fastest time, no matter how soften they may fail to equal that time in subsequent essays. A similar proposal was submitted to the local clubs some years ago, and at a conference of delegates was promptly turned down.

Baupara, formerly a member of B. Keeper’s team at Blenheim, will in future be trained at Awapuni.

Lady Nolan is also to be trained at Awapuni, and is under W. Tatham’s care.

Gladiole, which went amiss after the Manawatu meeting, is still unsound. She is being trained by A. Jackson. Following were the successful jockeys at the Egmont fixture: —W. Price (Leonta, Styrax), J. O’Shea (Tyson, Cheddar), McCarten (AvorN Park, two wins), Nodder (John Willie, Grattan), Traill (Sam Pan), D.eeley (Play Off), S. Goddard (Patroness), McCabe (Faoli), C. Brown (Gerberga), W. Adams (Square Deal). Owing to an injury. Renowned May will not accept for the Otaki Baaing Club’s coming meeting. Listen and Amber and White will, if the weights suit, represent the stable.. Wairarapa owners complain bitterly of the railway facilities at Carterton, pointing out that trucking facilities aro inadequate. It is also impossible to truck horses by the 9.30 .up goods tram. Horses walked as far as Masterton can, strange to say, te entrained there.

In referring to the death of Isaac Earnshaw, who passed away in. Sydney recently, after undergoing an operation, “Terlinga,” of the “Australasian,” penned the following tribute to his memory“Noon© in the training 'profession was better liked than Isaac Earnshaw. Ho never had an uncharitable word to say of anyone, and he put in many a good word for trainers and jockeys not so well placed as himself. He was a much misunderstood man in some ways. Outsiders would persist in regarding him as ‘clever’ and ‘mysterious,’ in a racing sense. Ho did not pretend to he either clover or mysterious. Ho just did his work to the best of his ability, and did not hang about the haunts of betting men and talk. On breeding, of course, bo would talk for ever, in congenial company, but his owners, or other friends, were the only people

he unbosomed himself to concerning his horses. Earnshaw won many races, and I suppose this, and the fact that several of his patrons bet, had a good deal to do with the shop prices at which his horses started. He was not a betting man himself, and was very cautious about advising other people to do so. No racing man who has died in recent years will be more missed than little Isaac- Earnshaw.