NOTES AND CONSENTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1381, 6 March 1912, Page 7

NOTES AND CONSENTS.

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Merrivcmia will not bo a starter in the Dannevirke Cup after all. She is still troubled with i> slight cough, and her owner has decided to give her an extended spell. Nominations for the Masterton meeting close on Thursday evening. Snn Fort has again joined N. Williams's Btriii" at Clareville after a spell on her owner's place nt Masterton. The roaro looks fresh and well after her respite from racing. Oaltee, who hails from Hawera, and who showed much pare in both his ongagoinents at tho JOgmont and Tarannki meetings, will probably start favourite in the Trial Handicap at Dannevirke. It is tiw intention of tho Tnranaki Jockey Club to proceed at once with alterations to the local tracks. A trial grass gallop will bo laid down where the plough now stands, and the last-named track will be re-formed immediately inside the grass gallop. K. Loire will rido the Gisborne horse Sublime in the Dannevirke Cup. In the same race L. Wilson will steer Mere Mere. Royal Marine has been scratched for all engagements at the Dannevirke meeting. Apropos ofErmcngnrde's gallop in tho Jackson Stakes at Wanganui a correspijnd«nt writes pointing , out that Pilgrim's

Way wns once credited with running Imin. 13scc. in a six-I'urloiiff race nt Tininru. Dui'iiifr recent yours the. Wnngamii Jockey Club has nnide rapid progress and the autumn meeting, which concluded lust Saturday was probably tho most successful ever held on the club's course. I'ndoubtedly .the metropolitan body is fortunate in hnvinpr as secretary Mr. Win. Hall fo whose cllcirts a great deal of the club's success is due.

Tho Hastings trainer V. Calello took San Wai to Dunneyirke on Monday. The big brown horse "ill be a runner in the Klectric Handicap at Daiinevirke tu-dny. Ho will be ridden by ]i. Deeley. As early as yesterday backers were to be found who were anxious to get on Win-light tor tho Nursery Handicap at Dannevirko to-day. There appears to be some cause for this support, and it is probably but a reflection of what will take place on the totalisator to-day. The filly in question is owned by Mr. Oco. Hunter, M.l'., and is by Mystification (who won many races in the colours of Wnipawn's member) from Searchlight, a useful sort, of mare. At Treuthnm in January, Warlight showed brilliance in the two-year-old handicap, which was won by Styx, and, to finish within a head of Canute at her first time of wearing colours, is a performance of no mean order, especially when it is remembered that the beaten division included Glade, tho Hastings stakes, winner, and several other fair performers. Tho Levin sportsman, Sir. K. A. M'Donald, will be represented ot Daiinevirke to-day by Aviator, a useful maiden performer, who is engaged in the Trial Stakes ami Electric Handicap. > Master Kilclieran, who has acted as runner-up in several Trial Stakes and Maiden events lately, will have the services of 13. Deeley in the Nursery Handicap at Danncrirke to-day. If he continues Id fill second berth, as ho has been doing lately, Master Kilcheran will earn a lather ''unenviable reputation. The Auckland-bred -Miss Alison (Soult— Miss Nelson) won tho February Handicap of eleven furlongs at the W.A.T.C. meeting Inst month. The winner was favourite, and won cbmforlably. ,T. Fryer has a team of four horses cnRB«cd lit Daiinevirke to-day, viz., St. Tonev, Master Kilcheran, Parktide, and Avaiince. ]f the Hnwera, trainer elects lo start the first-named iu the.Tainaki Welter, he will take much beating, despito his burden of 9st. 01b. His Egmont and Taroiiaki form • sho.vod that the St. Clements gelding was right back to his best gait. . . Tho decision of the Australian Cup, in which Prizefighter and Snsonite ran a dead-heat, is a great triumph for Handicapper Menzies, who adjusts the weights at I'leinington. The writer cannot recall a dead-heat in a two-mile and a quarter race, and the result is indeed a feather in the cap of tho handieapper. Prizefighter would probably shirt favourite, and it looks as if he had his trial in the Ksseiidon Stakes, won by the great Trafalgar, and in which Prizefighter made the pace. He is in the same stable as Comedy King. Flavian, who finished third, is a very unlucky horse, having run second in the Caulfield Cup and third in. the Melbourne Cup.