NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2373, 1 February 1915, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Py GlSncob.l The Takapuna Jockey Club's meeting will be brought to a conclusion on Wednesday, and on the same day the Egmont Meeting will open. To-night at 8 o'clock nominations for the AA r oodvillo District Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting will close with Secretary E. J. Gothard. .

The programme of the Danncvirke Racing Club's autumn fixture, to be ilield on March 3 and 4, is a good one, and tho generosity of the club in the matter of. stakes should be recognised by owners. As the meeting follows immediately in the v.ako of the AVanganui Gup Meeting a good class of horses may bo expected to be nominated. Nominations i'ov all events, except the Maiden and Scurry, close with Secretary R. Taklo on Saturday next at 9 p.m.

Neither B, Deeley nor J. Buchanan, who rode winners on the opening day at Takapuna, will be able to rido there on Wednesday, as each has engagements at the Gisborne meeting, which opens the day following.

Acceptances for the Canterbury Jockey Club's Midsummer Meeting close on Thursday next.

In answer to the inquiries of a' wouldbe purchaser, the owner of Croesus, mentioned 1500 guineas as the least he would take for the winner of six events in succession, but no business resulted. It is stated that there is a standing offer of 3000 guineas for the speedy three-year-old.

Though, the Victorian steeplechaser Bullawarra finished last in his opening engagement in England, after taking a lot out of himself by jumping big, he favourably impressed the critics. One of them subsequently remarked in the "Sporting Life" that he was a betterlooking horse than most of the Australians who had raced in England, and would show his full worth when he became acclimatised. The handicapper for the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase evidently subscribes to this view, and he has certainly taken no liberties with the Australian horse in awarding him list. 121b.

The New South Wales Methodist Evangelistic Committee are asking racing clubs in the metropolitan district for permission to hold open-air meetings on the racecourses in the intervals between races, subject to the direction of the racing officials. Several of the clubs have "turned down" the application.

Apprentices to the jockey profession, if they show any sort of talent, get plenty of riding in the Old Country, according to statistics published. A young rider, M. Wing, had no fewer than 457 mounts during last season. His record for tho period was 59 wins.

Tho injuries received by F. C. Porter at Wairoa on Tuesday comprise a fractured hip and a compound depressed fracture of the skull. Porter, says the Gisborne "Times," had the mount on Lady Aldwyn in the Maiden Hack Scurry, and coming round tho bend held third place in a field of twelve, and was coming through in good style. His mount here got chopped out, and, striking another horse, stumbled, Porter landing on his feet. The oncoming horses struck the unfortunate jockey and knocked him down, and one of them in passing pave him a clip on the head with its hoof.

Among the yearlings at the Eldorslio Stud is a fine colt by Kilbroney, frdm Arai-te-Oru, the dam of Taringamutu, who won two of the juvenile handicaps at tlio recent meeting of the 'Wellington Racing Club.

Over 500 yearlings will go under the hammer at the Raudwick April sales, and of tho number about 50 are expected from New Zoaland;

Tho Gisborno Racing Club's Summer Meeting will be held on Thursday and Saturday of this week, and the Poverty Bay Turf Club will raco on the same days the following week. Mr. H. Coyle is handicapper for both clubs.