NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2411, 17 March 1915, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

rBT GLINCOB.I The Masterton Meeting will be held tomorrow and Friday. Wellington patrons of the fixture can make the return journey in one day. ' The Opunake Meeting takes place today. Mr. Angus Keith las been appointed starter to the Waipukurau Jockey Club, w'hich races on Easter Monday. Altcar is a regular attendant on the tracks at Trentham, and bears a healthy appearance. He will race at Tauherinikau at Easter, where he is engaged in the open sprint events on each day of the meeting. Very fair nominations have .been received for the Easter Meeting of the Wairarapa Racing Club. The hack races and the events for youngsters have filled particularly well. Apparently it is as hard to get fields in some of the races on the other side as it is here. At Canterbury Park on March 6 tho Flying Mile brought.out only two runners, Sanguine and Brunde Lad. The former, who is trained by the ex-Ellerslie trainer, T. A. W r illiains, easily landed the odds laid on him. Debut, a colt by Sea Lion (brother to Achilles), was amongst the winners at the Canning Park (W.A.) Meeting on February 27. It is understood that another attempt will be made to train the Birkenhead gelding St. Aidan, and he will be tried over steeplechase courses in the winter. The following entries have been received for the Easter Handicap, on« mile and a quarter, to be run at the Wairarapa Meeting:—Merrie Gain, Immer, Undecided, Kilrain, Rene, Mummer, Want, Rerehau, Orleans, Goldstream. The yearlings from the Shipley Stud, sold in Melbourne tliis month, included a number claiming New Zealand-bred mares as their dams. Among them were seven Comedy Kins youngsters. which sold as lollow:—Filly from Rattier (dam of Vice-Admiral and Nnutiform), by Nelson— Moonga, 260 guineas; filly from Artillerie, by Royal Artillery—Nantes, 600 guineas; filly "from Cross Battery, by Stepniak—Firecross, 400 guineas; colt from Lady Fisher (dam of Maniapoto), by Cuirassier—Lady Emmeline, 220 guineas; colt from Aleger, by St. Leger—Brown Alice, 450 guineas; colt from Kora, by Stepniak—Demeter, 190 guineas; colt from Problem (dam of Solution), by St. Hippo —Ellerslie, 400 guineas. Iji addition to this lot a filly by Positano—Zemlia, by Stepniak—Miss Niente, realised 70 guineas. Mountain Knight was struck out of the Sydney Cug on the day the weights were issued. Evidently his owner did not approve of Bst. 101b.—8lb. over weight-for-age—though at the same age as Mountain Knight, Carbine w>n with 9st., Wallac« Bst. 121b., and Lord Cardigan Bst. 71b. It is unusual to.read of a racehorse being destroyed consequent on hydrophobia, but this happened at Lucknow (India) last month. The night subsequent to running in the Stewards' Cup a mare named Lady Anno developed extraordinary symptoms, tearing up _ everything within reach in her stall, kicking _ and pawing the stable walls, and displaying % state of wild frenzy. Colonel Holmes wae called in by the trainer, Longstaff, and after examination the mare's case 'was pronounced to be hydrophobia. She had been bitten by a dog at Lahore just a month previous to a day, and she was destroyed. As Colonel Holmes and Longstaff had handled the mare's nioutlj, both subsequently went up to ICasauli to the Pasteur Institute. The Trentham team engaged at the Masterton Meeting is being railed to Opaki to-day. C. Pritchard, J. Lowe, and H. Kingan all have horses engaged. A Melbourne paper says:—"Wien George Scobie, who lias just returned from a sojourn in New Zealand, Mas asked if he would sign a petition against the totulisator being introduced in Victoria, he not only readily assented, but expressed a desire to write a note condemning tho machine, of which he had more than enough in New Zealand." Tho locally-owned Peroneal (AchillesPrelude) has resumed work «t Otaki. The Highden horses which are to be sold at the Sydney sales were shipped on I'iiday last. 'They consist of Formaliter, fbei'_ra, two youngsters by Achilles from i.'eloani and Vasa, ami two by Elevation from Parera and Waiteniata. An ofi'ort is being made to obtain the Mrvices of Sid Reid to ride Ladoga In his iiiccarlou euja^emcuUi