NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1849, 8 September 1913, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

[By Qlencoe.] i ' The Dannovirko meeting will be hold ! on Wednesday. Splendid acceptances ■ havo been received for the vnrio.ua handicaps, and tho racing should ' be 1 very interesting. Styrax, Otahu, and ' Windage, winners. at Morton, have earned penalties at this meeting, but their form last week was convincing, and . their increased poundago should not seriously inconvenience them. Tho Melbourne jockey R. Camerson is to rido Tho Native in his Ranihvick €)t----gagemcnts. Tho Hon. J. D. Ormond has selected tho name of Mandolino for tho two-year-old bay filly by Hymettus (imp.)—Mandola, and Hoy for tho two-year-old filly by Birkenhead (imp.)— Links. . The old Officer gelding Medallist is to bo tried ovor hurdles in the south. It. Gooseman has just taken in hand 5 a four-year-old maro by Mystification— Eland, to train for Mr. G. Hunter, M.P. On breeding grounds, tho latest addition to tho stnug should bo able: h to gallop fast. ' The first payment for tho Now Zea--0 land Cup reduced the field from 79 to i- 51, but none of the withdrawals wopld '' cause a great deal of surprise. Bobri--11 ko.ff, who figured as top-weight with 0 9st. 61b., has had his engagement disL ' continued, but it was reported some >• littlo timo back that he was a very un•y likely starter. As is generally tho caso, > most .of tho scratching aro to bo found 5 in tho light-weight division, for of tho d twenty-eight withdrawn last evening, '■ only eight wero'handicapped at 7st. or l " over. 1 l. D. Wilkinson, trainor of Mr. P. Neaglo's horses, who has been laid asido with a sovero attack of rheuuiag tism for tho past two mouths, has recovered sufficiently to bo ablo to resume control of Diavolo, Sir Moseley, and a Co. i- Demosthenes, by "Desmond —Carlin, who was recently purchased in England by Mr. G. P. Donnelly, will stand tho soason at Crissoge, Hawke's Bay, nt a fee of 2ogns. The Feilding Jockey Club is effecting improvements on. its course, costing g about £1000. n Weights for the first iiandio caps at Wanganui aro duo on Friday, i- Had it not been that Secretary C. W. d Cropper went to a great deal of trouble n nearly all tho nominations of the iNow w Zealand juinpdrs, at prosont on tlio ie water bound for Sydney, would havo been invalid, as nono of tho animals ■® wero registered when the entries wero >r made. There is a new rule in Sydney which makes it compulsory to register a horso before it is nominated. This was v unknown to the New Zealand authonr* ties, and, when tho cntrios were re--1' eeived, Air. Cropper had to cable to tho various owners, advising them lo havo the horsc9 registered first. # Ine nomination of Tho Native* was quiek.y do put right, but tbo cablegram to J. al M'Laughlin was sent to Greenmeadows, n- and had to bo rc-direct6d to Wcllnigto ton. It only reached- M'Laughlin a c- short timo before his vessel loft, .*ut, 10 luckily,, ho was able to adjust matters .i- in conformity with tho new rules. It " would have been vory galling to the id Now Zealand owners had tlioy sent their horses to Randwick, and then found they could not run. Daisy Paul and Merric Valet, who finished within heads of each other bem hind the dividend-payers in the Huek Hurdles at Marton, are both engaged in tho same event at Dannovirke on Wednesday, and will, no doubt, couie in for plenty of support. Smilax, who was finishing fastjn the Railway Handicap at Marton, is engaged in the Otanga Handicap font mile) at Dannevirko, with only 4!b, above tho minimum. Though accepted for in the Handicap at Dannovirko, Gold Crest li

not to run, and it is understood that his owner will send him back'to llio stud at Levin. Tho good-looking chestnut horse will liavo several two-year-olds to represent him this season. San Wai, the good-looking son of San Fran, in V. Colello's Hastings stables, will mako his reappearance at tho Dannevirke meeting, after a prolonged spell.. Weights for tho Otaki meeting aro due oil Friday noxt. i Nominations for tho Hawko's Hay spring meeting closo on Friday noxt. Routine, who has mado considerable iniprovomcnt sinco going into J.-Sulli-van's stables, is engaged in the Spring Handicap at Danncvirko with 7st. 41b. Tho chestnut maro was finishing on woll at tho end of tho Marto'n Handicap.