NOTES. AND COMMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 13 May 1913, Page 3

NOTES. AND COMMENTS

* (By 'JEARLY BIRD.")

- -Egmont-meeting opens at.Hawera tomorrow. * There are "special train ar•rangements. ' ' .

to Hawera will-he -well catered for outside of the racing, for on both-race nights 'a boxing and wrest linn "tournament is bein'a; held. - Wangatiui-visitors to Hawera will require to leave by the 6-10 a.m. train, which reaches tho racecourse*at 10-50 , a.m. The train leaves on the return journey at 4-20 p.m." each day for Wanganui. ' Wrdgiewa, winner of the Goodwood Handicap at the South Australian meet,infi,last Saturday, is a brown.colt rising Jive year old, and is by ,Maltster out of traillardia. Widgiewa cut the six furlongs out,in lmin. 14secs., ivhich is a record for the race. . Looking up to see what tho best six ftirlongs tinio on record was, I found that^ the honour was held by one Master. Willie, who put up the sensational 'tuno of lmin. 7 l-ssecs. at, Epsom, EngJind. in. im. ■ As'the. course was partIv downhill, it,is easily understood, liio besfc tune for a circular track was put up by fivo American horses viz Vmin .;llsecs. Coming: nearer home! .tjoultlme ran tho distance at Randwick ilv>e years ,ae;o in lmin. 12± sees. Tho w.eisihts for the Wanganui \j.C AYmter Meetinu: to. be hold next week. r.nd wnie.li - duly appeared in yester.d.ay'n "Chronicle," will causo punters serjous. food, for thought. Mr iMorse ha-, acquitted, his responsible task wiui credit., Weights for the remaining evontr, on the first day. should make their -appearanco next Friday. All acceptftnees for tho first d»v's events close on Monday next, the ISth. A-numbeY- of. Wanganui horsesi arenonnnated for the Otaki'meeting next • F. Tilley has Goodwin Park, Lady \olga and Leonta; A. Jackson g"? lankeo Doodle, and Lambess has Rose.- Leonta. and .Silver Rose arc entered for the Raukawa Cup. one and a, quarter miles, and Goodwin'Park -in tbo hack hurdles each1 day. The veteran "A herb roth ock. and Nvland' are alsfv engaged in the. Hurdles.' TncludM in the general'entries for tfis,Auckland winter meotinff.is Den--J,"°^9rTm-e4 'YllO is onpagod;in tho M<?m----h-nB. JTwhcav a."r7 Farewell Handicap, -i his 13 the only Wanganui representativn nominated for Auckland. Eiojlish turf writers aro i-ow clamonrinp: for trio presence of stewards at the ; start, of every race, and the installation of ."crows' nests" on all courses. 1W Zealn^d »Iso could do wiux soTnp.thmo: of" this-kind. , Phosphorus on'd Bluo Garment a nan; of ,W. Mobborlny'r, charges, sprinto;l smnrtlv at EUorslie on"Thursday ■tno nmt-named lilavjncr n u fct i e th^ ■hcttov of the spi^. .«h'oulfl these hors- ■£! opmneto at tho -Waniranui meeting K.^- Kiown will act as their oilot " \ ' Con(l Uflß<:- the successful Anr-klanf? Jnisnman will tsko nart at th» K^monfc itar-i^fT CHubs fixhupft next W^dno ß dav nml Lhnmlay. B. Deeley and J. O'Sliek win also he riding- A .t + ] 1c mecb - nv I ho I'Tjnorted bor*<i Eudorm (Forfs>r-oh,re-_pon.nvwiso) j s un der s too<l v* navo-fiTiwhod his turf career, and l'oxtreason will see him at the stud *Ho wat sent into tho sale-rmo- after the reppnt A..T.0. .Autumn 'Meetiug. but SJ)«Si a s in bifldin? ce*secl at

Lortnrinxr on,« Whit. I Sa.v at the Kacps to Murray snortsmon. iho Hw J. Casov 7Reiimjirk> said tho pm-it atusn associated with racing ivaa that -Jiors«v.■«-«^. overtaxed. *o horse should, ho .allowed t.n e ntpr for a fhasc that-was .dfsiiiclinod to fnc« •. jump.- It was an ahußo of racing f or lioracp. to bo smirr'ed or wliipp^l "home 1- an exhausted condition. U wa" .morp thnri it, n h lJst i j t , va< ( . t . lJe ] tv n*V' it should be troatetl ns v.ioh. ■':«»- vnW*??? TT 15 in principle:,<mcl in. voh-ed t,|, o tnkme of money J r .ini 011----otlier without giving : ..n equivalent;. , fijnljing earned by honest toil mis lv.mh more to any young man than a iuhuhl mndo by gambling. It might mt v.', cham a?, .much, but it wo'ii.l lif-hi h-'n» to retain his self-respect an-J sIJ-^io-ih-onhi,^moral fibre. Thf riian »1, 0^,,i tuoney ova horse was thproljy inifki«d lc get pleasure from a lior.so as his tiioughts wore wntrM only oa too horse ho had backed. In somo interesting noL«s mi in-bi-Pcding and the introd.l of-,inn of \ nicr . hoTk- 4h m'T S *he EPS^sh stud hook .-Jho Snocial.Commissi/mc-;-' in tho London "S»ortMnon !> of tite 1 •ih I'lL. • writes :-"B6pauso wo hnvo V, ! doubtedly made tho misrako of inJireodmpr f ar to mubh to a few fash-'o-iablo linos, it locs nor i'o- a r... m ent follow that we .should correct this mistnko by introducing lines (hit .iro outside tho general stud Look. Thwe arc Plenty of neglected, strains <><• jmre -lud l>ook oripin which will serve admirajuv »' out-crossea. jukl. nirh i] )n t new, ! have persistently advocatod iho ictuni to this roun-try t> f u-inv f ilrstout colonial horses! as OUO the ruImo frcm Franco/ A ; 111 iJI-L-lrn-..^ of what may 1.0 do^o -i,, .iv, „,. so mo mention tho birth of a filly 'foal on tho lGth mst. by Great Scot "(imp.; out of tho young, mare Nouralia, by A"»pna-/iinp.) out of Carberry (da-fi of Chc^sington), by Crowberry out of T £?*. \ ! lUe--D b-r C, harlbort out of Blue LiKht. by Rataplan out of Borenlis Here 13 not merely the wished for combiTiauon of Blair Athol (twice) on the Bnrcalis tap root, hut any amount of •ntrrmwlinto blood, ' which is quite fresh in England .and the filly foil whatever her form ino v be—should she l.vo nju thnvo-i, likely to be a rrac~ ccssful bi-o'l maro."