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Acceptances for .tho Dunedin Jockey Club's Winter Meeting close on •Wednesday.

-acceptances for tho South Wairarapa T-.C-.'s Annual Meeting close this evening.

Acceptances for the Otaki-Maori R C.'s Winter Meeting close on" Wednesday R. Emerson will leavo for the north this week with Forest Belle, who claims «?ngagenients at the Otaki-Maori Racing Club's Winter Meetiug. Silver BLizo (F. Douglas) was given fl schooling task over the steeplechase fences at Riccarton on Saturday, and .cave an almost faultless exhibition of fencing. Corrio (R. McSoveruey) was sept ouco round over tho iiurdies, an_ performed satisfactorily. • One day la-st month the Oklahoma State Militia, acting ou the or*-*-"-s of the Governor to slop gambling on tho Tulsa racecourse, tired'a volley over--tho heads of the riders- as they came down the straight. Nono of the riders was injur ad, but tho race was broken up. The Adjutant-General said that if another race wero run he would order the soldie**s to shoot down the ho-^es.

Mr. Claude Henry Burnett, of Kimbolton road, Feildinc, died on Fia'day night. Ho was a prominent mumbSr of the E'eilding- Jockey Club, and in fact Jiis last appearance in public wak at tbf* FeM-ilnfr races, wl-ftre he fu'. fi lled with-marked success the duties of juds;e. The Feilding "Star" says that if ho had lived ho would very probably have been appointed one '-of the stipendiary ■-+f>wnrd.s for tho Racing Clubs of Now Zealand.