WITH THE SILKEN JACKET

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 72, 27 April 1929, Page 13

WITH THE SILKEN JACKET

(Compiled by "The Squire.")

NOTES ON HORSES, COURSES AND OWNERS. DOMINION AND ELSEWHERE

Mollison, wlio lias captured prize money to the amount of L'Jti.ilO during 1ns career ut iwo iiiicl tliree ycLirs olcl, bought when a ioal for oOU guineas. TO be tried. IMa"na Cliarta is to be tried out as a jumper. He had Oharlatan as a schoolmaster in his initial cifort over the pony hunlles, and gave a creditahle display for a novice. finished. The three-year-old Nightmareh has finished his rac-ing for this season, but A. IMcAulay intends to keep liim in steadv exereise througli the "\\iuter so as to have him rendy for Spring engagements. will be one. An entrant for next year's A.J.C. Derbv is the Awapuni mniden Tigrano, wlio is hv Grandcourt from Tigritiya, and if his trainer, G. Xeiy. talces a few horses to the othet" side during the Winter or Spring Tigrano will be oue of them. large strings. * The owner with most horses in training in Xew York is W. R. Coe, his total being 49. Tliis just beats Mrs Payne Whitney, who owns tbe Greentree stable. Other owners with lara^ teams are H. P. Whitney and J^/P. Widener. suspended. After the Dangar Handicap, J. IHunro frider of Loquaeioua) and IT j Birmimrham frider of Lord Kennnqnhair) had an argument. An inquiry, cpened on the course on Saturday, yras adjourned nntil Monday, when

Munro was suspended for a montli for improper conduct. good* money. The Ameriean Derbv, Chicago's most lioteworthy Turf evcnt a quarter of a ' eentury ago, is coming back with a prize of .10, 090 dollars (reports tlie Xew York Timcs). It will bo deeided at Wasliington Park on tlie afternoon of June lo. The distanee will be a liiilo and a quarter. retained one. Wlien the Prince of AYales sold his twelve liunters at auction in England 111 February they renlised 40G2 guineas, the highest price being 700 guineas for tlie seven-years-old mare, Miss JMuffit. Sentimeiital reasons caused the Prince fo retain oue old favourite, Just an Idea. Only oue liorse realised less than 100 guineas. very clean. An official of Ihe Racing Confereiice. vsho has returned to the Nortli Island from a round of the West Coast (South Island) meetings, says that the racing he saw was very c-lean and the meetings were well conducted. Hee did not see anything to induce him to agree with certain reports tliat had been circulated in the recent past.