NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2378, 6 February 1915, Page 10

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Tv rßifGUNcdi-1 . be race meetings-at Gisborne tea Biccartan to-day. . iadogi has not been for the JWangajiui 1 Cup, but ho will Be taken to •wia meeting for some of the minor events. wilt also take Taringamutu and Merry Guy and Eongora are to be railed .xo JSevr Plymouth this - morning. The •former is expected to run well in tho hack "bcrajea thore on Wednesday. _ Bj-xon, Bedford, and Bartrada have all beon penalised for the Taranaki Cup, but to tho..conditions of the race, Bm- , pemaaor, who scored in two weight-for-age , at Hawera, escaplcs a ponalty. His sxr<jf|enc& in tho field on Wednesday is likely to mean that several of tho other eewptora Trill be left in their boxes. m im 2ujry into tho running§,^9. a ro _ on the first day at Egraont. Lfc it ended, satisfactorily for the parties ncerned. The Maniapoto gelding sub(ineDtly changed hands for 500 gnineas. t The Chokebore Horses Taced consistently Blrnt. unluckily at tho Bgmont meeting. \iWisebird, Plying Sta.rt, and Court Mairtia.l all occupied minor places on ith* Jupening day. , ■ 1. Taranaki Jdekey..ciub'is arranging /for a fSpecial.train from Wanganui on the wnornrpg of'the first-day's races, and the trctuni journey will be made on the even-' Ring of . tile 66cond day.. Cheap excursion, ■wfarea-will bo; charged, and; the enterprise t)f tho club will doubtless be rewarded." I Sir Geo. Clifford, president of tho Eac•Sng Confei'ence, who has been on a visit to Hawera,- returned south by the Wahino jftast evening, and will bo' present at Ric-to-day. I Up till 9 p.m. to-night Secretaiy R. 'fTakle, of the Dannovirke Racing Club, Surill receive nominations for the Autumn Meeting. ■ Cortes, who 'has eo fiar. this season noit graced up to. her. tracks form, is ..meeting ■W.woak field in tho ,Hornby Welter at to-day. ■ ■ -,■ The Middle Park Plate, six fuflongs, Weight-£or-age, is to be riii at Riccaiton Tfto-day. There are itwo .threet-year-olds-en-}ga{pd, vdz_: I'abrikofE Dinner Gong, land nine two-year-olds.l . ' Of the latter SNones and "dishful will have many sup{jiorters, and the latter,, who is meeting the plly on ,71b.;.the,,best ,"6£. the." weightfor-age nay'~justify: the ollben-expressM wpiniOT~that" ho was unlucky, ait EMersUe, where ;:W6"gi)bd , .,pnes in Desert Gold and fiiushied-'in front of him. : V Dojvn, iwho'' showed a lot of pace in the fcvo-year-old" handicap at Trcntham when wlarco.BcUo only, defeated her by.a head, Pa.ilikely'to be much' fancied in 'tho Lyfcttclton. Plate at Biccarton to-day. The locally-owned. Immer is eDgajged in 3»th' the Craven Plate and jPost Handicap at Biccarton to-day, but her owner will (probably, eledfc to start in the concluding . c.vont, and as the class is not strong, the i'Hartian mare may .do better ..than she -did at Trentham. i' Eetttrned visitors from the Egmont meetjing say ' that at one stage of the Hawera (Stakes: Postillion had 'a, break- of six , ilecgths from Emperador, while five lengths fefurther baiik was'Einaldo.' Emperador ran no tlie.front at the bottom of the straight, /raid then Einaldo put in a good run. He Vgot to. the winneir a' few yards off the y?OBt,; but the effort was too much, and Bao tired. ■' 'Altogether, his. run .was imfcprassiye, and shoire that the Charlemagne' FlL.liprep framing back to form. hxtures. ■Fob.'ye,—Gisborne^,R.Ci r Summer, ;• :3'eb.s6,T-Canterbury J.C. Summer. and, I.l—Taranaki 3.C. Autumn. isEeb.; U and '13.—Poverty Bay T.C. Sum- ' • mor. . U®eb.'l7, -18„ and. 20. —Dunedin J.C. An- * tumn. EFeb. 19 Mid',2lb—South Auckland B.C. Annual. ... {March; 12: and 13.—Napier Park R.C. Autumn.