NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1661, 30 January 1913, Page 6

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[By Glencoe.]

■ Friday next will be,a busy day for those connected with'.horses, for, on that date, acceptances close for the Egmont meeting, which is to be held on Wednesday and Thursday of .next week,'and also for tho Tarauaki Cup. 'meeting, 'which follows a Week later.. ... ■'■ ,-■ ■•:■:

■The TakapuiiaoJockey .Club's meetingwill bo concluded bn'.'SatuVday. - ; A..final reniindcr~is, given that acceptances" for the C.J.C.midsummer meeting those to-night.. •/.•',-■ •■.>■■'. '•• P. M'Laughlin .will leave.Napier on. Tuesday evening next'; with a team. of horses for tho. Poverty, Bay and Gisbome nieefcinßs. - : , ... Weights-for the Waiigunui Cup ore dub on: February. 8... ,'■:■ . ,j..... After competing.in the Consolation Handicap at Trcnthani, 'Allegory was found to be lame'in front,'and his hocks .were also stripped being galloped on.\ The' Martian .gelding.was. taken home to Nnnior, and,is.to be given a. spell. . Nominations for the,Dannevirko. Racing Club's Autumn meeting, close on Saturday, February 8. •. If-only the"Egniont.Club is'favoured with fine'weather, for its meeting next week, the gathering' should easily be a record one, as the; country folk are sure to turn out in large.numbers to set the champion Bbbrikofty and also the Chokebore team, in'action. Both Sir George Clifford and .Mr., T... H. Lowry will be represented at tho'',.meeting for the first time- '!.-,■ . ■.« > La Reina. is earning an unenviable reputation for'tunning, into second place.. Mr. Duder's niaro again occupied that position in.tlie Takapuna.Cup yesterday, which makes .the/fourth time in succession that she'has had' her number hoisted underneath that of tho winner. -.-.■■ Up to tho time of his death last week, the stallion Ayr Inddio .was at tho head of tho list of winning sires for the current Australian racing season. F. Davis returned to Greenmeadows on Monday last with Soltano, but he is going across lo Hawcra corly next week tofoltend to Bobrikoff and: Labour Day, who are already there. ' '■'■•' . . . As an indication of.the way in which stakes nro increasing round about hyilney. ■it may bo mentioned that tho Kosehill Cup, to lie run on. March 8, carries 1000 sovs. in added money. _ _, , . The win of Overtime in the stewards Handicap nt Talcnpiina yesterday was anticipated by those who snw the Musketry eelding run h pood race to the-distance in the County Handicap at Ellorslio on the concluding day. of the Cup meeting . \s a consequence of ono of her legs filling after racing at Trentham, -it has been decided that Dearest is not to fulfil her Egmont or Tnrannki engagements.