NOTES AND COMMENTS

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1127, 15 June 1927, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

T<* Monanui, who is having a spoil, is to he pul into work again .shortly. Elysianor has hoe a taken up a*>;ain alter a long sja*ll, which appears to have benefited him. Ethiopian was sent a round over the hurdles at Ilk-carton last week, giving his usual pood display. While racing at WingaLui, .Master Peter broke down, and will henceforth serve his owner as a hack. , At the end of the month Harry Mickey goes to Australia with lloyal Damon, Epistle and .Merry .Mint. Wristlet is reported as having broken down alter being galloped on the .Hastings track the other day. J. A. Beale has been recommended by the Canterbury District Committee for-a trainers’ and rider’s license.

| Air J. S. Barrett and Mr C. Could will represent the Canterbury ’ .Joekev Club at the Pacing Confer—once held in. "Wellington next month. | Horses trained in the South | Auckland . district get away with £4900 of the. stake money on offer at the Ellerslie winter meeting. King Lu, a winner on the first

day of the A.R.C. winter meeting was operated on for throat troubles only last February.

At Hastings the other morning Morry Singer, with a hunter for a mate, gave a good display of. jumping over a round of the. fences. * The Hawk, after a complete roeovejry from his mishap, looking rough and big, is being exercised on the Hastings tracks. Money Order is being restricted to easy tasks on the Riccarton tracks. Me appears to he in the beat of health. A recent addition to F. Lind’s team at AA'angaiuii is a rising two year old filly by Archery. She is a shapely youngster and looks as if sue 1 ought to pay her way. The . Auckland-owned Passionate is to contest the hurdle events at! the AA'ellingtou winter meeting next month. Two years ago Passionate ran prominently. on the flat at the same meeting.

Cults brothel's have only two horses in active commission at present —-AA’ikl AA’ork and Card Trick. They are getting through useful tasks in view of the AA’ellingtou : meeting next month. i . Rahopotn, whose form over the battens at the Auckland meeting was decidedly promising, may be taken to Trentham next month to compete in hurdle, events at the Wellington fixture. E. Shaw, who had a shoulder blade broken when Blue Mall led with him at AA’ingatui last week is making a good recovery from the accident, and will he able to ride Charlatan in his Riccarton engagements in August. Nincompoop is reported to look : well after his racing at AYingatui, where he ran a couple of good races, I winding up with a Avin on the last j day. He will be kept going in useful work, as a trip to AA’ellingtou is in contemplation next month.

The veteran Royal Blood showed up in the AHsitovs’ Handicap on the concluding day at Ellerslie, finishing fourth. Royal Blood was ioaled n BUS, so that it is reasonable to suppose his best flat racing days are over. No fresh developments have occurred in connection with the Letter of Credit case. The AA'est Australian Turf Club Committee is awaiting information from New Zealand. in the meantime Letter of Credit's nomination will not 1)0 received. AA’. Raynor is well pleased with the progress his two youngsters are making. The Limond—Homage filly is well grown and sturdily built, taking after Humbug and Grotesque in appearance. The Thespian—Cowl fillv is smaller, but shows quality.

There will he reaing at AYangamit on September 17 il the EgmontAA’anganui Hunt Club obtains that day for its meeting. The AAanganui Jockey Club's spring meeting will be held a month later than usual, on October 13 and 15.

E. AA’arucr struck trouble again when Day Bell came down with him in the Campbell Hurdles at Ellerslie. He received a nasty cut on the chin that necessitated his going to hospital and having three stitches put in."

Percy Johnson, now a Taranaki trainer, holds the jockey’s record in connection. with -the Great .Northern Steeplechase. His four victories were gained on. Jenny (1890), Muscatel (1898), Dummy (1899) and Kialere (190.5).

The hack hurdle races at the Hawke’s Bay meetings should provide plenty ol interest, lor thev have an abundance of new-comers to that part of the business. There are decided possibilities about one or two of the entrants if they can jump. Kailmro, the rising two year old full sister to Kaiti (l-meul Ins— Suraturn), aflor being broken in by P. Neagle, at Tarn dale, is enjoying a sped I on the property of her owner, Mr P. E. Wall. It is intended later on that she will lie put into work for next season’s racing.

Kcntlc, who won the Brisbane Clip of £4OOO on Monday fast, was purchased a.s a yearling for 200 guineas by Air \\. H. Tudor. Keutle. who is by Iveiiilw.orth —Amicitia, is four years old, and his sole victory last year was attained in a six furlong hack race worth 15 so vs. Three recent arrivals lrom New

Zealand have joined It. Skeltons’ team at Kensington (says a Sydney writer). They are Miss Flighty, a three year old by Warplane—Miss Mimic; French Leave, a two year old filly by Autumnus —Flitawav; and Blowey, a five year old mare by Tree Lucerne—Conny.

F. J. McKay, private trainer to the Southland sportsman, Mr W. T. Hazlett, was at Iticcarton on Thursday in an effort to find suitable accommodation lor the farely large string lie will have racing at the Grand National meeting. Evidently the southern trainer appreciates the line galloping ground provided at headquarters.

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Racing Conference the following remit will be moved by tlio Manawatu Racing Club: “That while emphasising our loyalty to all decisions of the conference, this club is strongly of the opinion that in ail cases where any member of a committee of tlie conference is directly interested in any matter affecting bis club before such committee, such member should not act upon the committee while it is deliebrating that particular question.”

Harbour View, Kilhite, and Blue Sky, which filled the places in the last race of the Ellerslic meeting, started from widcout positions at the mile post, viz., 20, 10 and 18. Harbour View did not come prominently into the picture- until the straight was entered, but the closing run of the Heather Mixture gelding was very pronounced and he. scored by threeqcarters of a length, to return double figures and give 11. Wiggins his only winning ride at the meeting.