NOTES AND COMMENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 148, 25 June 1931, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By “Kestrel.”) There will be racing to day ami mi ! Saturday at the Greenmeadows course, where the Napier Park Bating Club s winter meeting will be held. National Entries. Entries for the C.J.C. Grand Nati n;nl Steeplechase, Winter Cup, and Gram!' National Hurdles, also the Beaufort and Lincoln Steeples, and rhe Sydenham , Hurdle Race, at. rhe National meeting, to be held on August 11. .13 ami 15, will close on Friday at 8 pan, Not Nominated. Rasouli will not. after all. be a r testant at the We'Jington winter meeting, for, though he was nominated for the Woburn Handicap and White* Hurdles, be had hjs nomination canveiled on the eve of the closing hour. Omitted at Trentham. At the Wellington Racing Chib’s winter meeting Sweet Sue is in the Woburn Handicap, while Nightmare is in the To Aro Handicap, 'Trial Plate and Crofton Handicap, and Jiu Jazz m in the Alatai and Mariri Hack Steeplechase. Those entries were omitted from the lists published vest er lay. Team at Fordell. It did not take the Fordell mentor, Fred Tilley, long to get a good team together after his return from the trip to England. He now has eight horses under his care for his clients, who comprise Messi’s W. McA. Duncan and Russell Grace, and Mrs M. Blackmore, Ruanui, Glenartney, View Halloo, High Faintin’. Sir Gallant. Furlong. Farmer (Ponibal —Jewel of Asia), and a Tukia filly are the members of his team, ano it is reported that they are all shaping well in their preparation for the spring racing campaign. The veteran trainer has not lost any of his wonderful ability to produce winners, and next season should find him once again we n in the limelight. Purchase of Eaglet’s Dam. Mr John Donald, of the Westmere Stud, is getting some great mares to be mated with Chief Ruler aid Co., and his latest purchase is one that has made a name for herself. She is the Maistci mare Doveiet, dam of Eaglet, Prince Otto and Columba. Mr Donald also t< ok over with Doveiet he 1 * tising yearling filly, which is a sister to the Oaks and Guineas winner, Eaglet, and (Doveiet is again in foal to Chief Ruler. Eaglet’s sister will therefore bo included in the Westmere draft, for the National Yearling Sales, and should prove a very attractive yearling. Messrs. Wright, Stephenson and Co., Ltd., wore the selling agents. Black Flyer Dead. The mare Black Flyer, owned by Mr W. Stevens, of Pakipaki, met with a fatal accident while being schooled over the steeplechase fences at Hastings this week. She was going round with Beau Regal and in endeavouring to jump with him fell, breaking her back. Topped the List. The ox-New Zealand George Price and M. McCarten have again topped tho list at Randwick. Price has not been particularly successful on suburban courses but the major events at headquarters naturally are more valuable. McCarten has been associated with some of Price’s successes, but the majority of the wins have been on horses from other stables. Death of Simper. Advice from Invercargill is to the ef feet that the great brood mare Simper was taken suddenly ill on Saturday morning and expired within a very short time. She was in foal to Grand Knight. Simper was bred in England by His Majesty the King in 19.12 and was imported to New Zealand in 1915 by Mr J. B. Reid, for whom she bred ; the Kilbroney horse Affectation, her first foal, but she was sold soon afterwards. Her progeny soon made her famous and since being acquired by Mr W. T. Hazlett she left some real champions. Her progeny included Affectation, Gold Light, Razzlo Dazzle (conqueror of Gloaming), Dazzling Light, Beacon Light, Glad Light, Lucky Light and Speed Light. At present a yearling colt by Grand Light is being reared by Mr Hazlett. The turf is a good deal poorer by the death of such a great mare. No Scope. It is estimated that more hunters have been qualified in the Canterbury district this season than for many year past, but with some of the Hunt Club meetings, shelved for a year, their opportunities to earn distinction under silk will be very limited. Beau Regal. Beau Regal, who appears to be creating a favourable impression on the track watchers at Hastings by his schooling efforts over country, is practically an unknown quantity. Registered in 1929 as foaled in 1921, by Chesterfield from a Regal mare, he has had only one race in public, and that was in the Dannevirke Hunt Club Steeplechase of 1928, won by Mountain Crag, in which he ran unplaced. Beau Regal has reached an age when ho wi’l find it. difficult to hold his own with younger horses, despite his ability as a jumper, and his lack of racing experience will not help him to-day. Not in the Mood. Sir Moment, who successfully represented the veteran owner-trainer, R. Knox, a couple of season back, was sent to Hastings last, week to race at the Napier Park and Hawke’s Bay meetings. On Thursday last he. was sent out to negotiate a round of the hurdles, but absolutely refused to jump, and after several efforts were made to get him over the first, obstacle, he was sent home to his stable. According to one opinion, the old fellow must have been in a disagreeable, mood. Limo nd Again to Fore. The South Australian owner Air E. E. Jolly is always a good patron of (ho New Zealand yearling sales, and it is always pleasing to record a success for his colours. Cable advice has been received to the effect that his two-year-old colt Fulword, by Limond, scored recently over six furlongs and a half after being badly left at his first three starts. At his third start in the Sapling Stakes at the South Australian Jockey Club’s National meeting Fulword was confidently expected to run well. After losing many lengths at the start, he ran a good fourth. Fulword is the colt from Full Swing, tho halfsister by Nassau to Nightmarch, and is therefore royally bred youngster. ]-|o was purchased at the National Sa h's at Trentham for .1500 guineas by Mr C. E. Robertson, who earlier purchased for Mr Jolly tin; Chief Ruler coll. Hol Spring, winner of the South Australian Derby, and the Absurd filly Roseglow, winner of Hie Breeders’ Plato. Mr Jolly was so pleased with Fulword when sent to \uslralia that ho made a gift of an interest in (ho hors- to Mr