NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9600, 5 March 1917, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By "Tohunga.”) The Trontbam horses engaged at Dannevirke returned home on t ritlay with a fair amount of spoil, Pall Mall ann Batrnsdale each having been successful. C. Pritchard or creeds to Nelson to-day with Rose Pink, Roumania, and Pall Hall. Mr J. Adams, in whose name Bairnsdale rune, purchased a brown yearling colt by Formby ont of Jingle, whilst at Danncvirke. The half-brother to Captain Jingle is well furnished, and is to be unseved and turned out. BaJrnsdale has been having an easy time since the Dannerirko meeting. He will be prepared for the Masterton meeting, where he has an engagement. Blairfinde looks as though the’climate of this country agrees with him. He has been doing easy work, and mav be placed in the late autumn. Black Night, who is engaged in the Maiden at Nelson, is looking well, and may pick up a race across the Strait. The gelding ran four furlongs on Saturday m Imin 4lseo. Mystic Light (Mystification—Searchlight) is accused of being a buck-jump-ing demon, upon w'hom no one can > sit for three minutes. His trainer gives that assertion a flat denial, and says that the horse is in work every day. Crescent Moon is stepping ont nicely and may pick up a scurry soon. She ran half a mile on Saturday in oteec. Devotion is on the easy list after her Wanganui exertions. Rose Pink is moving nicely. She has an engagement in the Nelson Cup and it looks as though she has the handicap at her mercy. Miss De Val. who has an engagement at Napier Park, appears to be a hit on the stale side. She is probably feeling the effects of her southern trip. There is such a demand at Trentham for accommodation for soldiers that one large establishment which has been used •in the post for visiting horses is to be reconstructed with a view to housing soldiers and their wives. J. Millen has decided to knock two of his boxes into one, and fix them up for habitation. Visitors will find some difficulty in obtaining accommodation at Trentham in future. H. Telford is said to be closing down on visitors too, and one of his patrons has made other arrangements already. A number of (wo-year-olds were out on Saturday. Three of J. W. Lowe’s youngsters. Exclusive, Matilda and Cooing, who will probably go through to Napier, were working on Saturday, as also were some of the youngsters in J. Ayres’s stables, including Bonny Maid and Battlesong. A Press Association message from Dunedin says that Mr C. S. Hundson has lost by death his imported stallion Copa de Ora. This horse was the fastest pacer ever imported to Australia, and served his only season in New Zealand at Kitchingham’s stud in Canterbury. Copa de Ora is the sire of several smart performers in the United Slates,