NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2285, 20 October 1914, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[Bt Giißnooe.T Some of the southern candidates for tho Wellington Racing Club's Spring Meeting are expected to arrive by the ferry' steamer Maori this morning. Tho Porirua team for the meeting,will be railed to Trentham to-morrow. It has been, decided thta Soultikoff is not to fulfil his engagement in tho Now Zealand Cup. Belasco was scratched for the O.J.C. Stewards' Handicap at midday yesterday. ' Prinoo Marriwee is once more among tho horses being trained on. tho Ellerslie tracts. It is said that Balboa'B running in the. Champion Plate next Monday will decide whether.Mr.. T. H. Lowry's.colt is to contest the Great . Northern Guineas or not. . • King Lupin has evidently made a good recovery from his recent mishap, for ho is among the horses entered to compete at the Auckland Racing Club's Spring Meeting. ■ , '■ Football and Blackball are notable defections from the Champion' Plato.. General entries for the. Canterbury Jockey Club's Metropolitan meeting are duo on Friday next. Acceptances for the New Zealand Cup and the Stewards' Handicap close at tho same time. The Victoria Racing Club'e -Spring Meeting commences at Flemington next Saturday week.' Tho Molbourne Cup is to bo run on Tuesday, November 3. In tho South Island the imported mare First Glance is fancied as a second leg of the double, New Zealand Cup and Stewards' Handicap. The Middle Park Plate, won this year by Hie Majesty's Friar Marcus, is usually won by a good horse, and past winners include such as Pretty Polly, Bayardo, Lcmberg, and Cragauour. The race has never proved a reliable guide to the Epsom Derby: In foot, during the past 20 years very few winners of the Middle Park Plato have subsequently triumphed in the Derby.'".

FIXTURES

Oct. 24 and 26.—Wellington E.C. Spring. Oct. 27 and 28-Greymoutli J.C. Spring. Oct. 29 and 30.—Poverty Bay T.C. Spring. Nov. i ami ".—Auckland B.C. Spring. Nov. 7, 9, 11, and li.-Cauterbury J.C. Metropolitan. . . Nov. 18 and 19.—Mftrlborough B.C. Spring. Nov. 28 and SO.-Mdin* J.C. Spring..