NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2410, 16 March 1915, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fß* Giiscos-l i The' Masterton meeting will take, place on Thursday and Friday of this weekThe Qpunake meeting 1 takes place tomorrow. j B. Deeley came to Wellington after the Napier meeting, and will oe riding, at Masterton this week. He will be on Byron in the Cup and on Chakwana in the March Handicap. ' ■ ' Several two-year-olds are engaged in tho Maiden race at Opaki this meeting. Horses of this age have played a prominent 'part in the decision of this race, and generally they have turned out fair performers. Peroneal, Daybreak, and Soldstream were all winners of the race mentioned. ; A. Goodman took two horses to the Nelson meeting, Hap Dha and Multoe, and each of them scored at their second time out.' The former was fancied for the five furlongs Hack Eace on the opening day, but he won the seven furlongs race. Multoe had his first start in the Maiden Handicap and won over the same distance on the second day. Private advices • received. ill town yesterday state, that A. Reed's case was to be reopened by the Nelson Jockey Club. The Trenthani jotkey. has a very good reputation, and considerable surprise was expressed when it was found that he was suspended. ; Immer, and her full-sister Pall Mall, who is engaged in the Maiden Eace, are going to Masterton to-morrow. The pair will be ridden in the Cup by R. A Christchurch agent lias bpen inquiring for. a price to be put on Gold Soult, but so far no business has resulted. The Porirua team for the Masterton Meeting was railed North' yesterday. J. H. Prosser did not make the trip, but he will go up on the day of the races. Jockey R. Hatch has had his license renewed by the Wellington Hacing Club. Hatch will confine his attentions to riding only. . Kilr'ain is doing nice work at Trentham but his exercises do' not include much galloping. He is looking bright and well and as he has been allowed to drri> out of his Auckland engagements it can be taken for granted that he will be at Riccarton at Easter. The locally-trained mares Eerehau and Plunder were taken to' the Nelson meeting, but both met with mishaps and oould njot start on either day. The former will soon be right, but Plunder appears to be lame in the shoulder.. When being pulled up after sprinting Beggarmaid Fell in a heap at Eiccarton on Friday morning. C. Emerson, who was riding her, had a very ugly fall, but fortunately got out of it' •with a bad shaking. For a time it was thought the filly broken a shoulder, but as she walked home after a few minutes' spell, though very lame, it may not be as bad as was at first' thought. Emerson, sen., has been to a lot of trouble with this filly, rnd it is very bad luck for him to get her knocked out just as she showed signs of improving. Gold 'King, who showed fair form at tho Nelson meeting, is. a New South Wales-bred gelding by Seal Eock, a horse that at one time'carried the colours of the late Mr. G. G. Stead. The committee of the North Otago Jockey Club are determined that sport shall do something directly for the relief of the starving Belgians. At their meeting on Monday they decided that the whole of the commission on the totalisator investments upon the North Otago Cup— tho principal race of the Winter Meeting—shall be handed over to the Belgium Relief Fund.