NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2249, 8 September 1914, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[Br Glencoe-I The Dahnovirke Spring Meeting, a one-day fixture, will talc© place on the club's property at Tamaki to-morrow. A Special train will run from Palmorston North to-morrow' morning, and will return after the last race. The Otaki Olub lias received a good response from owners for its spring' meeting. The hack events have filled particularly well, and the Maiden Plate and Trial Handicap have also been well patronised, The jumping events have not been neglected, and the list includes the names of several winners over big fences. ■ The locally-owned Immer, a member of N. Williams's Otaki team, is again in work, but it is reported, that she is backward, and will net be able te race for sometime. In England to-morrow the St. Leger Stakes will be decided, Miss Lena (Field Battery—Wish), who was so badly hurt at the last Masterton meeting that it was feared she would have te be shot, has made a wonderful recovery, and is nominated in the hack events at the Otaki meeting, to be held this month.- ' Weights for the open events on the first day of the Wanganui Jockey Club's Meeting are due on Friday next. At the Dannevirke meeting to-morrow Glen Novis, who scored in the Hack Hurdles at Marion, will be ridden by J. O'Coraiell. T. Lloyd's other jumper, Kauroa, will be ridden by • Wallace Young. J Tho Blenheim-owned lmarose, who won nearly £1000 in stakes last season, will be given his first race this season, at Otaki. In' some quarters tho Conqueror gelding, who seems to be a good stayer, is fancied for the next New Zealand Cup. Sydney bookmakers are hard to beat (says an Australian exchange). • Somo of them wanted to do business on the probable issue of tho war on a recent Saturday, and it was 12 to 1 against Germany. / A strange accident occurred last month at Townsville, when the northcm sportsman, Mr. J. S. Love, lost a fino imported horse, Matehlpvo, who cost him upwards of 800 guineas. The horse was out exercising, when suddenly ho throw his head round and caught the stirrup-iron in his jaw. Tho boy on top was in a quandary what to do, but finally decided to dismount. The result was that Matchlove lost his balance, and falling heavily broke his nook. The win of tho New Zealand-bred Di Gama on Saturday makes the third consecutivo victory scored by tho Vasco horse*. His previous wins were hi fl race at tho Oaklands Hunt Club, meeting, and at Sandown Park on August 29, when ho scored in the Park Handicap, in which he carried Bst. 81b., and was ridden by W. O'Halloran. Styx (Achilles—The Shannon) was a runner in the First Division Handicap, six furlongs, at Sandown Park (Vic), on August 29, but after leading into the straight he was beaten out of a place. Paoii (Morriwee—■Nukumarakca) was favourite in tho Jumpers' Flat at Sandown Park on August 29, but he got hung up in the tapes, and any chance ho had was spoilt thereby. At tho Ballarat Miners' Turf Club mooting on August 22, tho New Zealand gelding Fireworks won the Brush Steoplcchnse, two miles. Ho was ridden by Ronald Cameron. L. Hagerty is going from Molbo.ur.no' to tho Randwick Spring Meeting to ride Capinista in the hurdle races there. ffhe body, of Rook Sand, the winner.

of the "Triple Crown" in, 1903, who died in Franco in July, lias been presented to tho French Natural History Alusoum,where it will bo mounted. Tho chestnut marc Ventura has returned to Sydney from Brisbane, and is again being trained at Randwick by H. Rayner. In winning the Liverpool Plato at Livorpool (England), last month, the St. Frusquin horse, Florentine, won very easily in 2min. 53 3-ssec. for tho milo and throe quarters. Tlnrt. sounds smart travelling, though it does not equal Golden Measure's English record by j four-fifths of a-second. Dumont's 3mim £soc., at Randwick, in 1904, still stands.l as the Australian record. FIXTURES. ' Sept. 9—Dannevirke R.C. Steeplechase. Sept. 10 and 11—Ashburton County R.C. Spring. Sept. 16 and 19—Avondale Jockey Club; Sept. 24 and 25—Geraldine R.C. Spring. Sept. 24 and 26—Wanganui J.C. Spring Oct. 3-Napier Park R.C. Spring. Oct. 9 and 10—Dunedin J.C. Spring. Oct. 10—Hawke's Bay J.C. Spring. Oct. 15 and 17—South Canterbury J.C. Spring. Oct. 24 and 26—Wellington Racing Club Spring.