NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9417, 2 August 1916, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Oorrie pulled up lame after winning the Hurdle Race at the Rosehill meetiug. The trouble is not supposed to be serious, and Corrio will probably bo all right in the near future. Now York is doing well in his schooling efforts at Wanganui. He will probably strip as well as anything on August 15th.

The Mexican Government is keeping & keen eye upon racing. Some time ago they, under President Carranza, decided to squelch racing in toto- In the future the Government will take 25 per cent, of the receipts of each meeting.

The jockeys J. Childs (winner of the Derby and Oaks on Fifinella) and F. Rickaby, who were second and sixth respectively in the Hnglish winning list for the first three months of the current season, were due to join the colours at the end of last month.

Cherry Blossom will be piloted in her Winter Cup effort by the southern horesman, J- Olsen. At the annual meeting of the Feilding Jockey Club £SOO was voted to the patriotic funds. It is unusual for a filly to be put to o stallion a few days prior to running in a big race, but only a fortnight before winning the New Oaks at Newmarket last year. Snow Marten was mated with Sir Martin. The result was a filly foaled on May 4th last. The annual meeting of the Inangahua Trotting Club will provide the sum of £SOO in. stakes. Trotting apparently is making far greater strides in the South Island than in the North. There is ample scope for inquiry into the “thusness” of the fact.

When the last mail to hand left England, Mr E. Hulton was at the head of the list of winning owners. His score amounted to £6183 10s. The principal agent of Mr Hulton was Fifinella, who has a record of £4OOO.

S. Donoghue, who headed the list of winning jockeys in England last year, will probably gain that honour again this season. From March 24th to June 3rd he had ridden in 103 races, his wins totalling 20. Next to him for the period mentioned was J. Childs, with 15 wins out of 73 mounts, while E. Wheatley was third with nine .wins.

The Grand National candidate _ Recharge will be ridden by F. Ellis. Kooya has been engaged in the Trial Hurdles, run on the first day of the C.J.C. : meeting. Should she succeed in that event a penalty of 81b will be imposed in the Grand National Hurdle Race.

The Australian Hurdle Race is to be decided on Saturday. The Auckland gelding Merrimax claims an engagement therein.

Mountain Knight, whoso fall in the last Melbourne Cup concluded his racing career, has been sold by Mr EJ. Watt to Mr W. J. Douglas. In addition to being such a high-class performer on the Australian turf. Mountain Knight has good breeding to recommend him for stud purposes. He is by Mountain King (Wallace —Bonnie Rosette) from La Veille, by Mostyn from Vigil, by Trenton from Nightmare (dam of Mentor, Dreamland, Class, and La Tosca). Two of the progeny of Mensobikoff raced at the Brackenfield Hunt Club meeting. They were Malvolia and Golden Prince. Each scored l ® second. In England this year the following stallions of Australian or New _ Zealand descent gained. King’s premiums: Darigal (son of the Melbourne Cup winner. The Victory); Flying Shot, by Great Soot; Kano, by Trenton; Rockaway, by Trenton; Bush Song, by Australian Star; and Sea Bath, by Merman. Sixty King’s Premiums of £l5O were competed for by 174 stallions. Twelve super-premiums of £IOO each were given to stallions of exceptional merit, on condition that the owners agreed to exhibit the horses next year. Darigal, by The Victory, was amongst those gaining a super-premium.

Sam Pan, who scored a surprise in the North, did not impress the southern scribes as one who was likely to set the Thames or the Avon alight- He was beaten a long way from, home in the Brackenfield Plate, and finished up looking very sorry for himself.

Idealism has a lot of friends for the Grand National Steeplechase. The only reason one cannot go straight out for him is the fact that he is hardly forward enough. The steeplechase course is a long one. and a horse needs to be in good form to get round befgre some other one does. A Press Association telegram from Auckland states • that the racehorses Waimai, Te Onga, Tenacious, and Ngatoa left Auckland for Wellington last night, en route for Riccartoa.