NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2257, 17 September 1914, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By GlEncoe.] Acceptances for the first day'e events at the Wanganui Jockey Club's meeting, close on Monday next. Woighte for the first day's .events at the Otaki Maori Racing Club's meeting aro due to appear to-morrow. Nominations for the Napier Park Racing Club's Spring Meeting close tomorrow night. If no mistake is made. King Soult, wlio, won tho Avondale Cup yesterday, was ' registering his first victory since December 29, 1910, on which date he annexed the Summer Cup at Ellerslie. Master Lupin was started twico at Avondale yesterday. RO3-.lt Irish, who acted as runnerup in-the Avondale Cup, was a consistent performer last season. Out of fourteen starts, he was five times first and four'other times in places. H. Cutts is booked to leave Riccarton for Wanganui _ to-night, with- First Flight, Don Francisco and Nightwatcli, to fulfil engagements at the spring meeting there. F. E. Jones will ride the members of the teani when tho weights suit. _Mr. Harvey Patterson- has scratched his horses for all their Sydney engagements. Fabrikoff is still engaged in the V.R.C. Derby, to be run at Flemington in November, and if accommodation can be procured on a boat, it is understood that he will be taken over to, contest the race. Silver Shield and a two-year-old will accompany him. The two-year-old is on the backward side, but the other two are in the best of health. • Owing 'to pressure of business at home, D. Roberts was unable to be in attendance at the Ashburton meeting. This is the first occasion on which, during tlie seventeen years that Roberts lia's been training horses for Mr. H. A. Knight, a member of the team has attended a meeting without Roberts having been in charge. This (says the "Lyttelton Times") must be something of a record. Tlie dam of tho galloper Derby Day, who won a double at tho Amberley Steeplechase Club's meeting last month, is also tlie dam, of that, good trotter Electrocute. Tlie mare already has had three foals by J. Tasker's horse Galindo, and she is 10 be mated with bim' 1 again' this season. , The Southland mare Routine, by Sir Lancelot—Queen of Trumps, will probably be a starter in tho Geraldine Cup next week.. It is reported that she will then be retired,to the stud, and mated • with Jail, by Charlemagne ll—Janet. If Nightwatcli, is started at the Wanganui meeting next week, he will be making his first appearance in a- race since February' last. ■ _i FIXTURES. Sept. 19.—Avondale Jockey Club Sept. 24 and 25—Geraldine R.C. Spring. Sept. 24 and 26—Wanganui J.C. Spring Oct. v 3—Napier Park R.C. Spring. Oct. 9 and 10—Dunedin J.C. Spring. Oat. 10 —Hawlfe's Bay J.C. Spring. , Oct. 15 and 17—South Canterbury J.C. Spring.' Oct. 24 and 26 —Wellington Racing Club Spring.