NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1355, 5 February 1912, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

(Bt Gusnooi!.! The Egmont Cup will be run on Wednesday next. Acceptances for the first, day's events at the Taranaki Jockey Club's Autumn meeting close to-night. .; . Nominations for the-. Dnnncrirke Rncing Club's meeting close on Saturday, next with the club's secretary, Mr. James Spiers Freeman. '. Midnight Sun and I/ndecided are the favourites for the Wangaimi Cup, ?nd Gladiole and Royal Scotch are the fwo : candidates in tiic Flying Handicap who are most inquired, for. Royal Scotch will contest tlie Jackson Stakes on the second day of the nui Jockey Club's meeting. Pnrcwaiiui is another candidate that, it is said, will be certain to go to the post for this event. G. Price leaves Awapuni for Hawora to-day, with those of Mr. Highden's horses which are to compete at the Egmont Racing Club's meeting. Goodwin Park is sure to be well supported for the Wangaimi Cup, if for no other reason than that he always runs a good race on the Wanganui course. Sir Frisco, nftw serving a season at the stud, has been placed in work again, and will probably bo racing before the end of the present season. Queen 0' Scots and Parisian is the favourite double for the Newmarket Handicap and Australian Cup. It was the winning double last year. It is slated that Brown Owl, winner of the Richmond Plate at Riccartou on Saturday, Was heavily supported in Wellington. Brown Trout has been doing good work at Levin recently, and may win a lace shortly. The To Kuiti Racing Club's nnimnl meeting takes place on Thursday next. Euroco has been training satisfactDrily in view -of engagements at the Egmont Rncing Club's meeting. Equitas was the most notable absentee from the Wanganui nominations. ' it is understood that it was the intention to nominate the Advance maro in tho Flying Handicap, but the idea was abandoned after she was defeated at Trcnthani. 'f'he problem as to which is the licst two-year-oid of the season is still difficult of solution. Hut it looks as if >utummis is invincible at Riecurton, la--niengarde at Trenthnni, and Prince Soult at Auckland. According to a northern exchange tho Wellington Cup winner Advance, whu has been doing stud duty in the Raiigitikei district, met with a"serious accident on Thursday afternoon. While gnllopiu" round a paddock he stumbled and bioke a foreleg just above the fetlock. The veterinary surgeon, Mr. M. Edgar, «el the bono and- encased the leg in placer ol Paris, and it is hoped that the black champion will be .'aved. .'Hit committee of the Mailbnreiigh Racing Club are now arranging their Autumn meeting program me. The details of the stakes are at present in tho hands of a sub-committee, but tho committee have definitely decided to increisp Iho stakes from .£1295 to JJISOO. Tho club's action in increasing the stakes, as it has done from year to year, should meet with a hearty response from owners in all parts. The programme will probably, be', published in the course of another week; '■