NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2300, 6 November 1914, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

i TBr OiiiNCOE.l At Ellerslio to-morrow, tho Auokland Baciii" Club's Spring Meeting, will be concluded, the principal event to be decided being the King Edward Memorial Handicap, one inile ancl a half. B. Deelcy, J. Buchanan, L. Wilson, and J. O'Shea arrived from Auckland by the Main Trunk express yesterday afternoon, and left for Riccarton by the ferry steamer .last evening. Between the arrival of tho train and the departure of the steamer, Deelcy • and Buchanan visited tile Turkish Baths for the puroose of making a reduction in their riding weight. Deeley was in great form at Ellerslio oil Wednesday, when he had three winning mount's. Backers of Sinapis were very much surprised when the name of tho St. Ambrose mare was, not to be found among tho Now Zealand Gup acceptances yesterday. Many -of them held the belief that a correction would come during the day stating that the acceptance of the mare had been received in time, and had been inadvertently omitted from the list.

Weights for tho first day's events at the Marlborough Racing, Club's Meeting are due to-day. The Victoria Racing Club's Meeting will be brought to a close at Flemington to-morrow. , Handicaps for the first day's events at the Fcilding Jockey Club's Spring Meeting will be declared at the close or the racing at Riccarton. ' Grattan, who is reported to have had a very bad passage in the Shorts Handicap at Ellerslie on Wednesday," is among the, acceptors for the Epsom Handicap, to be run on'tho same course to-morrow. ' * Kitty Bellairs, who acted as runnerup to Prince Soult in the Shorts Handicap, will not have to meet the Soult horse in the Gordon Handicap ( five furlongs, to be decided at Ellerslio to-mor-row aftornoon.

Though he was called upon to carry list., 3st. 71b. above the minimum, the New Zealand gelding Tatterley, who won twice at the A.J.O. Meeting, was Bent out fav.ourito for the Woltor Handicap at Moonee : Valley on October 24 (says a Melbourne exchange). There was solid support for Dhuldul, while the disappointing.'Peck o 1 Maut had friends also. Though Tatterley did not get away as M'Lachlan would. have liked, he was one of the first to find his legs, but Dhuldul soon had command, and, easily stalling off Singlestick, won comfortably by three-quarters of a length. Charlatan was third, while Peck o' Maut and Tatterley wore next.

It was announced at the time that general entries fox the V.R.CJ. Meeting were received that the nomination' or -j tho New Zealand visitor Sir Solo for the Veteran Stakes, C. B. Fisher Plate and V.R.C. Handicap was informal, but it now transpires .that an error, was made owing to a telegram which had been sent to the club going astray (says an Australian exchange). The necessary fees had been paid into the bank to the credit of the V.R.C. prior to the date of the closing of nommationß, and on it being discovered that the entries Were bona-fide the committee decided to i accept the nominations" of the horse for the races named. ; , Allansford, Who won ,the Veteran Stakes ait Flemingtonyesterday, . had. started on numerous previous occasions but had. not been successful in aiiy event until yesterday. • Woorak's defeat in the Linlithgow Stakes yesterday would make it appear as if the Traquair colt lias "gone off" considerably since the Australian. Jockey Club's Spring Meeting at Randwick. Mr. L. Griffiths, secretory of the Marlborough Trotting Club, writes:—The trotter Wrekin, a competitor -at the Marlborough Trotting Club Meeting is, supposed to have won. a race, ill smin. 24 1-5 sec. Thai was the official timo given, and appears in the Turf Register. It' was a mistake, howerer, and was corrected 1 to Emin. 34 l-ssec, by resolution of. the stewards of the Marlborough Trotting Club. This fact must bo known, as othoiinso owners might, think that Wrekin was thrown into the races at the forthcoming meeting.