RACING

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11161, 17 March 1922, Page 8

RACING

FIXTURES. March 17—Opunake R C March 17, 18— Ohinemuri J.C. (9 March 18—Mastcrton R.C. March 22, ?.'U-Facgitikei R.C. March 24. 23—Westport J.C. March 30, April I—Wellington R.C. April 1, s—Auckland T.C. April I—Amherlev R.C. ' , April 6, B—Manawatu R.C. April 7, B—Southland R.C. April B—Hororata R.C. April 15. 17—Auckland R C. April 15, 17—Feikling J.C. April 15, 17—Riverton J.C. April 15. 17—Wairarapa R.C. NOTES AND COMMENTS. (fey "Carbine.”) ■ Accommodation is already being booked at Trentham for the coming Wellington meeting. TTsLloyd has secured boxes for four horses, F. X). Jones three, R. Knox one, and A. Bore three. The Trentham mare Princess Pat has started twenty-four times this season-. She has won. four races, and has been placed in nine. Kick Off’s, record this season is three starts three wins. He looks like winning a big handicap this autumn. Amythas is a notable absentee from the Great Easter and Great Autumn nominations.

Mr W. R. Kemball expects to hare a team of five horses racing at the Well-% ington meeting As The Hawk has not been nominated for any one of several suitable handicaps, entries for which closed recently, all ’may not be well with the flying three-year-old.

North Island horses that have been nominated for the big Easter events at both Riccarton and Bllerslie are Gasbag, Grotesque, Cleasanta, Askari, Anomaly, Blackmail, Sunny Corner, Callaghan, Martial Dawn, Fulsome, Insurrection, Guest, Mockery, Sycorax, Scion, Strategy, Prince Martian, Cold Steel, Danger Zone, Still Sea.

Orpheus, the Ebglish racehorse, of which H. Gray speaks eo highly, is to go to the stud shortly, at a fee of about 200 guineas. 1 The ex-New Zealander, L. H. Hewitt, who is riding iti India, won a double recently on .horses named Archer and Bathurst.

The seconds system of starting trotters may disappear from New Zealand in a little while. Even in Canterbury the yards system is likely to make considerable headway in the near future. The oommitteo of the New- Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club has had the starting question under consideration for some time past. The seconds system will be retained for the Roster meeting, but it is understood the- yards system will be adopted from the beginning of next season. With the introduction of .the yards system at Addington, popular opinion is that the Canterbury Park and. New Brighton clubs will follow suit, in which case this system will be employed at all the chief meetings of the country.

St. Speed, tho winner of the' Leonard Stakes, has been .expected as a win-' ner of several good handicaps in Australia, and brought a reputation as a galloper from his home in South Australia. Speedite, the dam of St. Speed,, is by Pistol,, a sire who has made turf history in South Australia. Grey Abbey, a winner in Australia the other day, .is an imported mare by Book, a grey horse bred in Prance, by Palmiste—Diamond Agnes. Grey, Abbey races in the. interests of Mr Norman Falkiner. The Woorak’s had their turn in the Gibson Carmichael Stakes on Saturday last, , both St. Andrew .-and Polynesian claiming the Traquair house as sire,, Wborak: as - a sire of speedy two-year-f olds, promises to be a good rival of Tlid Welkin. ,