NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2275, 8 October 1914, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By GlEncoe. - ]

Weights for the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap are due on October 16. The local sportsman, who races as Mr. H. Whitney/left for the south last night to see his horses, Mount Victoria and Roumariia, race at the Dunedin Jockey Club's Spring Meeting on.Friday and. Saturday. ■ ' Martigues, who has been nominated at the Wellington Racing Club's meeting, is a sister to Immer. ■ ■' Among the horses in work at Hastings, at the present time is a full-sister to Indigo. Trainer A. J. Shearsby reached Hastings, from Awapuni.on Monday with Passadena. and Adroit. Asteriae was repotted to be soro after competing in the < two-year-old raco at Napier on Saturday, but the son of Finland moved quite freely when sprinting over a couple of furlongs at Hastings, on Tuesday morning. The Australian Jockey. Club's Spring Meeting will be concluded at Randwict on Saturday. ..Woorak's time for the Graven Plate yesterday was a. quarter of a second faster than the figures hoisted by Son of the Marsh for the. ten furlongs in the Final Handicap at Raudwick on Octolsor;9. 1909. ■ The imported filly, First Glance, registered good time in a gallop over six furlongs. A southern writer says that tho filly is likely to ho well forward by the time tho Canterbury Jockey Club's November meeting comes rcmid. Listen. (Conqueror —Listener), wno is now owned by a South Island sportsman, has resumed training at Biccarton. She is , said to bn carrying much more condition than when competing at the Grand National Meeting in August. Barlow, who won the Sydney Handicap RC Randwick yesterday, is a proved stayer, and lias been succeesful in several good handicap events. His victories include tho A.J.C. Summer Cup, one milo and five furlongs, at Bandwick last December. • \ Quarantine is likely to get on the winning list as soon as ho hnds the going to his liking. Hβ is not seen at his best, as a rule, when the tracks aro hard. Lady Louisa has been weighted for both the Flying Handicap . and ■ the .spring Handicap at Masterton. After her creditable slowing at Otaki, eho will no doubt be sent out for the mile and * quarter erent. G. Pric* h«s ttken four horses to Halting* to race at the Hawke's Bay Jockev Club's meeting. '-They aro Ex-

pect, Pariform, Garance, and the two-year-old Sarcelle (Elevation—Parera). Immensity easily defeated Gazette in » gallop over a mile at the Hastings track on Tuesday morning. The profit on the Wauganui Jockey Club's Spring Meeting amounted ' to £734. Of this, half has been given to the British Food Fund, a quarter to the Belgian Food Fund, and a quarter to the Regimental Fund.—Press Association. At a meeting of the New Zealand Trotting. Association at Christchurch reference was mado to the adverse comment regarding trotting by Mr. Buick, M.P., during the course of a debate in the House.- of Representatives recently on the Gaming Sill, and it was decided to write to Mr. Buick, and ask him for the grounds upon which he made' the statements attributed to him in the report of the debate. —Press Association. FIXTURES. Oct. 9 and 10.—Dnnedin J.C. Spring. • Oct. 10—Hawke's Bay J.C. Spring. Oct. 15-Hasterton E.C. Spring. Oct. 15 and 17.—South Canterbury J.C. Spring. . Oct. 2-t and 26.—Wellington E.C. Spring. Oct. 26 and 27.-Gore E.C. Spring. October 27 and 28.—Greymouth J.C. Spring Oct. 29 and 30.—Poverty Bny T.C. Spring. Nov. i and 7.—Auckland E.C. Spring. Novl 7, 9, 11, and 14.—Canterbury J.C. Metropolitan. Nov. 18 and 19.—Marlborongh R.C. Spring. Nov. 2S and 30.—Folding J.C. Spring.