NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2357, 13 January 1915, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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A final reminder is given all con- ?£ I * 6 oloßill 6 of acceptances for n m- ,^ ston me() ting- Entries for the Trial Plate and Disposal Stakes are due at the same time.

Acceptances for the Foxton meeting close to-morrow night, '. Nominations for the Nelson Trotting Club s annual meeting, to be held on February 10, close to-night at 8 o'clock with tho secretary, J. Glen.

Included in the entries for the Australian Cup are tho hurdle Jiorses Lord t«rey, Capmtesta, and Balljsta. Accommodation has been booked for boporiho at Trentham, so the Letho gelding will not be a runner at Foxton.

, Con the Shaughraun was a runner in the Jumpers' Flat Race at Montone .on January 2. He was not quoted, but ?i" x d $ ur<L His Btabl ° companion, Master Paul, had a bad fall in the bteeplechase at Flemington the dav previous.

The Porirua team for the Wellington Cup meeting will be railed across tomorrow. 0. Emerson will do most of tho riding during the meeting. New Zealanders will be pleased to n° ar that tho ex-Auckland horseman, Joe Gallagher, turned out a winner at Randwick on-New Year's Day, when one of his charges in Cesarius scored in the Novice Handicap. Gallagher has many fnends in these parts who will be glad to hear of his change in luck. , Jockey W., Bell has been served with notice to appear before the Wsnganui District Committee to explain his conduct at Awapuni, when the M.R.O. stewards fined him £25.

Included in the entries for the Doncaster Handicap are the New Zealand horses Sister Radius, Palisade, Reputation, Tatterley, and Ventura. Di Gama, Sir Solo, and Reputation figure m the Sydney Cup entries. Referring to Cherubim's running at tho recent Tattersall's meeting, a Sydney writer says: "Oherubini was heavily backed but all ho did was to conhrm the idea that New Zealand form has caused him to be entirely overrated,"

Jockey W. O'Halloran returned to Wellington yesterday, after a stay of nine months in Melbourne. He will be able to ride at the Wellington. Cup meeting, and can go to scale at 7st. 41b.

G. Prioe leaves for Sydney by the TJhmaroa on January 29. He will there join the Moldavia and proceed to England to purchase some bloodstock for his patron. During his absence, A. Oliver, who successfully underwent an operation on Monday, will attend to , mattera-at Awapuni. ,\ The Wostland Racing Club, which had a successful midsummer meeting on January 5 and 6, is out with an attractive programme for the autumn mooting, to bo held at Hokitika on Wednesday, April 7 (Easter Week). It is proposed to give stakes to tho value of £600 for the day, this an increase on last year's programme. Tlioro will he eight, events on the card, the principal being the Autumn Handicap, of 150 sovs. Nominations are fixed for Friday, March 20, and handicaps are due on Easter Monday night, after the Eumara races. A day's racing will bo held the week following at Beef ton, so that thore will bo a circuit of three days' Coast racing within nine days. Acceptances for the llutt Vallov Trotting Club's Meeting are duo on Friday. The commission set up to make recommendations to the Government concerning the allocation of additional totalisator permits to bo issued under tho Act of last session, met yesterday morning. Tho members of it are; Mr. C. Hunter, M.P., and Mr. T. H. Davoy, and Mr. J. D. Gray, of Hansard sUff, lias been appointed, secrotary. The commission loaves to-day for New Plymouth.' It will consider applications from the Waitnni Hacinß Club and thn New Plymouth Hunt Club on Thursday and

from the Egmont-Waverley Hunt Club on.Friday, and from the Morton Hunt (Jiub on Saturday. Mr. H. Hodge, whose death is reported from Te Horo, was well-known in racing circles in this district. His colours had been carried successfully by Negative, Chillies, Diplomatic, and several other horses. FIXTURES. Jon. 20, 22, and 23.—Wellington E.G. Summer. Jan. 22 and 23.-Foxton B.C. Annnal. •' ' Feb. 8 and i.— Egmont B.C. Summer. Feb. i and 6.—Gisborne B.C. Summer. Feb. 6.—Canterbury J.C. Summer. Feb. 10 and I.l—Taranaki J.C. Autumn. Fob. 11 and 13.-Poverty Bay T.C. Summer. Feb. 17, 18, and M.-Dunedia J.C. Autumn, Feb. 19 and 20.—South.Auckland B.C. Annual. March 12 and 13—Napier Park B.C. Autumn.