NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1521, 17 August 1912, Page 13

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[B? GIESCOE.] Gloy is being worked by H. trench with a view to early spring racing lie con tistent son oi Gluten and Did, who had the ill-luck to finish second in each ot tho three big flat races at the A.K.u Winer meeting is training on nicely. Auckland "Herald." Although Mr. H. K. Mackenzie s colt by Starina from Lady Flora, remains in the Avondalo Guineas, ho- will not be a starter for that event, says an exchange. \t present ho is being ridden,, but mil not be placed in active ; commission tor a few months to come. Sedition has been again placed in commission after a lengthy spoil. Ho is again under his old mentor, H. French, at Avondale. Tho idea of taking Dunborve to Australia has been abandoned, and F. Stcn„ning received advice on Monday ti'om Mr. Geo.'Dunnet that the son ot Bluejacket was to remain in New Zealand. A start has been mado with the enlarging of the totalisator houso at Ellerslie°aiUl big improvements will bo'noticed when the spring meeting commences. Iho improvements will give plenty room lor the new machine which is to be installed, and should do away with a lot of the crowding around the totalisator so prevalent last season. Tho Racing "Commission of 1911 recommended that amalgamation should bo effected between certain clubs whose permits were withdrawn and adjacent clubs which had been interfered with. As a stop in. this direction, a resolution was passed at tho annual meeting of tho Wairarnpa Racing Club providing that any members of tho Lower Valley Jockey Club, which was deprived of its racing days, may join tho former club if they aro nominated before December 1, 1912, without payment of any entrance fee. This is at present ,£l, but after the above date all new members will have to pay £2, in addition to the annual subscription (says our Fcatherston correspondent.