NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1726, 17 April 1913, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

IBT Qlescok.J The Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's meeting will bo brought to a close ■ to-day, "but the Avonclale Jockey Club's meeting will not be concluded, until . Saturday nest. . ... Nominations for tho Ashburton County Bating Club's autumu meeting close on Friday ns.xt. ' Acceptances for the first day's events at tho Jlasterton Racing Club's autumn meeting close on Friday. At Hastings to-day, the principal item on. the. programme is the Hawke's Bay Stakcs,. for two and threc-ycar-olds. Several of, the candidates have shown good t'orip within, the past few weeks, and a great race should be the result. Bronzo appears to have struck a really bad patch of ill-fortune, and her thiril in the Hawke's Bay Cup yesterday adds another, to the jist of minor places slio has, gained in important races this seafcon. 'J'hat the Field Battery mare is still a great public: favourite is evidenced by tho fact that she was again tho first choice of .backers yesterday. The bay mare, Hinapis, was shipped to Blenheim yesterday in charge of H. Fletcher. At the conclusion of tho Marlborough meeting she will pwbably be turned out for the winter. Her owner, Mr. A. H. Durrani, lias a yearling haltsister toSinnpis which Fletcher will probably bring back to Tatikcrinikau and put into work.