SPORTING.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17734, 6 December 1919, Page 8

SPORTING.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

(By "Early Bird.")

' Racing at Woodville on Wednesday and Thursday. Moorfowl has not been pleasing the touts by the way she has been galloping lately, and unless there is an improvement the Welcome Stakes winner will got out of favour for the Great Northern Foal Stakes. A Christchurch writer mentions that all going well in the meantime, Onslaught, Winter Wind, and Macduff will form the Chokebore team for the coming Manawatu meeting. Hetaua met with an accident last week that will keep him off the racecourse for some time. The black three-year-old reared up and cut one of his tendons so badly that several stitches had to be put'in. Acacia, the two-year-old full sister to Desert Gold, who met with an accident prior to the running of the Hastings Stakes, is making a good recovery* and will next season take up stud duty. From Canterbury comes news that Mr G. D. Greenwood has announced his intention of taking up his residence in England for some time to come. It is hardly necessary to state that considerable curiosity is evinced as to what policy will be decided on in regard to the horses owned by the Canterbury sportsman; and what Mr Greenwood's contemplated English visit will mean in regard to the position of Mr R. J. Mason, who has filled something more than the post of trainer to MiGreenwood in his racing ventures for several years. A rumour is afloat—and that a highly interesting one —that "R.J.M." may journey to England in order to train a few horses for Mr Greenwood in the Old Country. If there be any grounds for the belief of Mr Greenwood racing in England, and Mr Mason proceeded thither to train for him, the question of transporting i Gloaming across the sea, with a view to his measuring strides with the English cracks may not be an un-thought-of subject. The Welkin's speedy son would certainly be a great introduction for Mr Greenvrood in England were he in a position to reproduce his best form.

When Simonides wound up at Ellerslie as a two-year-old in the autumn of 1917 by winning the Victoria Handicap under 9 st. 9 Ib. he filled the eye as a colt of great promise, in fact, he ' seemed one of the best looking two-year-olds that had carried silk since the days of Trenton and Krupp. No one requires to be told what a marked disappointment Simonides proveded at three and four years old, for he was beaten in every race for which he started in the first-named year, and only one small race fell to him at four years old. At Takapuna meeting the Demosthenes gelding came out of his shell, and won a double in such style that his prospects of earning further distinction at no distant date carry the bright tint. Simonides is a bit difficult to handle by reason of an unsensitive mouth; and apparently something has ahvays to be chanced with the good-looking brown on that account. Hector Gray controlled him well at Takapuna, though at the conclusion of the Cautley Handicap he took charge and in running about almost reached the saddling paddock fence ere his rider stopped him. Simonides figures in the Railway Handicap with 7 st. 8 lb., and on his recent form he must be accounted to have a chance in the six' furlongs race set down for decision at Ellerslie on Boxing Day.

"Happiness la Life—Everything." —Stanus. o But who can De nappy wten a cold stuff-up the head, a cough tears each throat-membrane, and chest trouble tortures the lungs?— Why, no one! Still, we can still restore happiness to its own—at least Baxter's Lung Preserver can do it for us. This sterling eld remedy for summer ills will promptly oust the cold, silence the Cough, and relieve the lungs. It has been doing so for over half a century. Always have "Baxter's" handy through the summer. 2/6 large bottle. '•