NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 965, 4 November 1910, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

; •! 'The, : ;;Canter'bury> Jockey" OlubV'-meet-;lng'opeia.-atjEicpartoni to-morrow, when' the; : vNew. : ; Zealand,, Cup. and :y Stewards' ■Handicap;,wiU-b6 ! i.decided.\;;.-•;,,•. ; r ■ ■ f^llerKlie. to-morrow" the ('Auckland 1 •"".W.S• Clubs,-meeting commences.-' rTho ■Principal events to :be. decided are" the ;Ureat. Northern- Guineas arid the City Handicap.-.-.;. i-.v- . j .-., -.-...- '.-■■-.'•■■ i :; Owners' are. reminded-'.that- acceptances ' f°i" the;£rst.day.'s events at the TarataiiClub's meeting close ton'glt.'SVth the ~stowi.;Ca?tert6hp-,:~v '■- .!.•':-' ' , :■■.-..:' . Nomindiio'ns.':.fdr :the -Feilding Jockey Club s spring, meeting close to-night -with the,clubs secretary, .-Mr; Edmund Good-: uenere;:.- ■-• .-. ,in, tho •Great, Northern-Guineas to-morrow; has riddedthe -winner of tho race,-on' four;; previous -occasions..' "' favourite coinb'ihation for tW New ,&alftrl.d / Cup;:'aiid, ; Stewards' double s jDiabolo .and -luputas.;. : Yesterday " this br«.<et/canKV.m for; heavy; support all over,-the Dominion, and both horses are nssUred.first.favourites'for their races to 'mor-ow:/'■ ..V,''VT-;.■..■•.'■ '■■' '~.•,':.-,' :MWfeii : Go!ilen- loop failed iri ; (tlio Open Handicap at. Otaki it;' was. generally • : id(ight:r that- he, would do better 'on. a .:•■ rr.i;.tf y'a:ik. ■;"-He.is engaged s -in tlio Ply. l/ig Handicap; seven furlongs, at Ellerelle on-iSatufday.'and is bottom weight. ■ ' If.:ris_.is ~-expected Apellon'•'■ wins the Great; Northern Guineas "at Auckland to-' ,morrbw;,'his.. victory .will make Maxwell a -Very-firm order in the; Hobson Handi.cap,..a<j.;that'geldin" has been working -with", the 'Guineas.colt, and has generally -finished"in.front of him. ■ i. •/Interest.in the; Eiccarton meeting continues,to: grow, and, large, crowds left for thc'.south by the Manuka and Mararoa last evening.. Sir Antrim, the last of the Cup'; horses,. : was sent to Eiccarton on Wedmsday's ■ boat,' and now all tho ac< ; cijptoi's : have • reached headquarters'. A few'days ago the big handicap was reas unusually open, but the excol:li!rice of his track-work h'as made Diabolo favourite, and he looks like, maintaining his position to the end. .Mr. G.' D. Greenwood, whose colt Dan■Ubo won.the Champion Plate at Trentham last nionth."has written;to the committee of-the Wellington Kacin'g Club offering to hundred-guinea cup to be attached to next year's race for tho Champion Plate.