NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1847, 5 September 1913, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[BY Glencoe.] ; , To-day constitutes an important date for sportsmen-. It is accoptanco day for tho' New Zealand Cup and Ashburton meeting, aiid entries also close for the principal weight-for-ago races in the Dominion.' Nominations for tho Avondalo meeting close to-night. -Ceylon and Naumai arc tho only North Island horses engaged at-the Ashburton mooting. Neither of Mr. H. '.Whitnoy's pair is . likely to mako the trip. Final paymonts . for the Avondale Stakes and Avondale Guineas are due this evening. ■ Kew is again in work at Fordell, after a short spell. Tho Sylvia Park gelding' will be a runner at the Wanganui meeting. Ti Lloyd arrived from Marton yesterday with Glenmoro and Marton, wTio are to be shipped to Sydney to-day. This is Lloyd's second trip to Sydney. In 1897 he took Ditto over for tho late J. B. Williamson. Ditto turned out a very useful' horse, and 'amongst other races he won a Caulfield National. / J. M'Laughlin is taking the three-' year-old filly Daybreak, Loch Maben, and Prince Eddie to Sydney to-day. Tho Napier trainer previously made a successful trip to Sydney and Melbourne with Contender, who won the Lawn Handicap at the Flomington National meeting. \ Black Lupin, who has been spelling sinco tho National meeting, has again joined the activo brigade at Awapuni. The aged gelding Simple Simon is to bo a runner in tho big steeplechase at Dannevirko next week, and will be ridden by tho light-weight, jockey H. Tricklebank. The son of Gei'ard is a morabor of J. M. Cameron's Hastings team. , . . The brood* maro DeLimore is to visit Maniopoto this year, and a half-sister to Kow, belonging to Mr. H. M. Speed, will also go on a visit to the Soult horse, whose progeny were much in evidence at the Marton meeting. Mr. E. Goodbehcrc, of the Feilding Jockey Club, was presont at tho Marton meeting in his official capacity as representative of tho Racing Conference. It is the intention of the executive of the Feilding Jockey Club to apply to the Railway Department for a special fast train from Feilding to Wellington on both days of the November' meeting. This will bo a boon to local sportsmon, who will, no doubt, roll up in large numbers When it is known that they can get home by 10 p.m. Quite a shake in tho Now Zealand ■ Cup market 'was noticeable yesterday when a big commission was worked all over tho Dominion in favour of Empera<lor. Tho Charlomagno II horso is at present in Sydnoy, under R. J. Mason, and is evidently pleasing that astute mentor in his tasks. Many good judges hold tho opinion that the best has not been scon of the son of Lady Wayward, who was hurried somowhat last season. He •is not likely to reccdo from the position of favourite until the day of tho race, and those who want to back him now will havo to take a short prico. Tho last two New Zealand Cups havo been won by horses who have raced at Randwick throughout tho spring; Th«re is no prospcct of traffic being resumed on tho Dunedin section of tho Otago Central Railway for a week, or possibly longer. Workmen, according to the Dunedin "Star," are still busy removing the earth brought down by the slips. At Barewood Creek the bank has fallen into the river, and men were to be sent to' that spot this morning in order to make a temporary bridgo, In the meantime mails and passengers aro being brought from Clyde to Ranfurl.v by rail, and then to I'almerston by motor-car. There is no remedy for throat and chest troubles that 'has been tested so thoroughly and searchingl.v as "NAZOL." It gets more friends tho more it is tried. 'If yoiir throat troubles Jiou, ulse "NAZOL."—Advt.