NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

: flfr Glencoe.] Owners are reminded that acceptances for the Napier Park Racing Club's iUcetiug close this evening. The Jockey Club Stakes, of 10,000 sovs., is among the events to be decided in England at tho Aewmai-ket I'iret October Meeting, commenomg to-mor-row. ... - ' Nominations for the Wellington Racing Club's bprnig ■ Meeting clo6e on l''nday next. . . : G. Prico has shifted "his team back to Awapuni .from Wanganui.Thero aro now one thousand men and i-'crsos of the Expeditionary l<'orco quartered on. the Welluigton Racing Club's property .at Troiu-nam. The defeat of 'lyson at Otaki yesterday was a heavy blow to'his numerous supporters. I'ho Coronet gelding was a very hot favourite oil tho course and in town, ido failed by a_ narrow nrargin to gain tilie second dividend. •-. The A.J.C. Derby and the Epsom Handicap will bo decided at Randwiok on Saturday next. . . . , The cx-JSorth Island jockey, Stanley Reid, is having quite a run of success in the' eouth, and at the Goraldine JJceting last week he rode : three winuers. • . • S)pecialj mention of the' Wellington Racing , Club's olficers was made by tho president (Mr. J. B. Harcourt) in tho course of his annual address to nicmbors last nigbt.,- "1. must again," ho said, "expross appreciation of the excellent services rciKlercd to the club by our untiring and energetic secretary, Mr. A.'K Whyte, and also to the staff employed under him. I am pleased to say that our haiidicapper, Mr. Pollock, is rapidly recovering from his recent illness, and we hope soon to see him again in his old place. Meanwhile Mr. Coyle volunteered to perform his duties, and, has carried out the same most satisfactorily." R. Manson has been engaged to ride the Charlemagne ll—Arai to Dru filly in the two-year-old races at Trentham next month. ■'.■':-.■ Reno and Our King wore double winners at the Otaki Meeting. Goldstream ran so well for five furlongs in his race at Otaki on Wednesday that one" might reasonably have ■expected him to be favourite for the Electric Hack Handicap when ho won yestordaj'j but instead he was allowed to pay a false price. This was owing to the heavy support forthcoming for the top-weight, Tyson. Word from England etates thai the Victorian steeplechaser Bullawarra is becoming quite acclimatised, and is going along steadily in his pieparation. I The. report is that he'has not been sick or-sorry a minute since he left Victoria.. Bullawarra does -his work principally with Lutteur 111, a French horse, aiid winner of a Liverpool National. : '. Tho black colt Colunihus, who showed plenty of pace in his races at Otaki, may now be given a brief spell. Heis (it is understood) not likely to rulnl his engagement in the New Zealand Cup. Among the candidates figuring in the rich Breeders' Plate to be decided at Randwick next Monday are Del Monte, by Mountain King from Belle of Brittany (imp.), and Sweet Corn, by Maltster, from Condiment. The former ( is owned by Mr. E. J. Watt, and the latter by Mr. W. G. Stead. Woorak, who may' start favourite in the A.J.C. .Derby on Saturday, has only been once defeated up to the present—in tho Onkleigh Plate Open Handicap at Caulfield last autumn, Mr. W. E. Bidwill has been re-elected chairman of stewards of the Wairarapa Racing Club. The Wairarapa Racing Club has decided to give the sum of £2225 in stakes for its Summer Meeting on January 1 and 2. This will be the same amount as allotted for the corresponding meeting lost season.

FIXTURES. Oct. S.-Napier Park R.C. Spring. . Oct 9 and 10,—Duuedin J.C. Spring. Oct. 10-Hawke's Bay J.C.'Spring. Oct. 15-Masterton .B.C. Spring. . Oct. IS and 17.-South Canterbury J.C. 2G.—Wellington R.C. Spring Oct. 26 ami 27.-Gore B.C. Sprang. October 27 and 28—Greymouth J.C. Spring Oct. 29 and 30—Poverty Bay T.C. Spring. Nov. i and 7.-Aucklaiid R.C. Spring. Nov. 7, 8, 11. and U.-Canterbury J.C. Metropolitan. Nov. IS and 10.-Marlborough R-C Spring. Nov, 2S and 30.-Fei!din E J.C. Spring.