NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2383, 12 February 1915, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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.The Poverty Bay Turf Club's Meeting will be conoluded to-morrow, when 'tie annual meeting of tho Te Kuiti Racing will also be held. At a meeting of the Wanganui Jockey Club, held this week, the license of A. Oliver ivas held over, and the applicant advised to apply again in a ill oil til's time. The two-year-old Pacifio Slooe, who baa been to'win a race for somo time, scored in the Maiden Scurrey at the Poverty Bay Meeting yesterday, The filly carries Mr. H. Pela tour's colours" and ig trained by F. LoorriTi, The form at New Plymouth yesterday worked out surprisingly well, and all tho handicaps were won by horees that had been in .the jockey market-on the . opening day. . The honour of winning the First Taranaki Stakes goes to Sir George Clifford, who scored, with tie two-year-old Flying Start,. The placed hor6es wore Merry Rp© and Emperador. The appeal to the Racing 1 Conference against the decision of the Wellington District Committee in suspending 0. Emerson till March 31 will be heard at Dunedin on Tuesday evening next. The Hon. George M'Lqan is. sending a batch of Sarto yearlings to the Sydney* Bales. _ They will be shipped to the other side early nest month. The Dunedin Cup favourite, Warstep, was tried with ,her Cup weight in ffle saddle over a, six furlongs coprse at Riccarton on Tuesday. She stood on the an<j ran the distance in lipin. 17 ?-6sec,, pulling up wql}. The gpllop gained her many friends for tlie Cup. . It was not expected Byron would be taken to .the Dunedin Jileqtmg, and word now comes from the south that he has been soratched for all engagements at Wingatui. Evidently racing is improving Flying Start, for yesterday the colt decisively beat two of the best sprinters in the Dominion in Merry Roe and Emperador. The.filly was very confidently supported by ier owner on the strength of. a good trial at Ellerslie, but it may be that Emperador, who has been pretty busy tho last few weeks, iB going off. . Great interest will centre in the appearance of Warstep in the Dunedin Cup next week. The mare is now in "top hole" condition, and though she i 3 only a pony and has a very big weight, the task may not be beyond her, for. she is in a higher class than ■ the others, and First Glance,' with a concession of only 101b i,• seems to be a bit too close to her. Should the Auckland Cup winner prevail on Wednesday her • weight-carrying feat will not le •anything like a record, for Advance carried lOst. 41b. and won the Wellington Cup in 1905. Still it be a performance, good enough to class her with- the best jngres that have' raced in the Dominion. . ' A southern writer says: "A- M'JJenzie, the well-known trainer and crosscountry horsepian, who w«»s injured when Te Tua fell with him in a race between the, flags. at the Otautau rf.R.C.'s Meeting, is now progressing favourably in the Wallace County Hos-f pital." That useful hack The Dodger broke down at Hawera last week, and has been turned out. It is said that Sir George Clifford has become tired of Boldstroke, and the filly is in the private sale list. The Bomhardo horse Combustion, who carries the colours of the Marton sportsman Sir. G. Morris, has been racing most consistently during the last couple of months, but he ha 6 only filled minor places, "His dual success at the Taranaki Meeting would recompense his owuer for his ill-fortune of late. Gaiter, Who used to be a member of C. Jaokson's Hawera team is now a troop horse in Egypt, having been presented to Sergeant C. Allison by Mr. M. Franklin. Sergeant Allison recently wrote that the horse stood the voyage well, arid a few days after landing was as good as the best of them. Banksia was priced last week, but at the figure quoted, viz., 350 guineas, no business resulted. FIXTURES. Feb. 11 and 13.—Poverty Bay T.C. Summer. Feb. 17, 18, and 20—Dunedin J.C. Autumn. Feb. 19 and 20—South Auokland B.C. Annual. „ _ , March 12 and 13.—Napier Park R.CJ. Autumn.