NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2432, 10 April 1915, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Acceptances for the first day's handicaps at Awapuni and final payments for the Sires' Produce and Manawatu Stakes close with. Secretary J. Jl. Johnston at 10 p.m. on Tuesday next. G. Jones, in charge of Chortle and Multiply, and J. O'Neill, with Croesus, arrived from' the south on Thursday mornifig, and later in the day proceeded to Trentham. . Avon Park and Nilta were taken to Trentham at the conclusion of the racing at Feeding. The All Black—Killinstini colt purchased by Mr. P. Dorset at the Auckland sales, has been handed to A. Goodman to train at Trentham, H. Cutts with seven horses and E. J. Mason with five horses are due to arrive from the south on Sunday morning. G. Murray-Aynsley, with Warstep and Snub, will not come till later in the week, as his horses are not to race until the concluding day of the meeiting. lord Multifid has not started again in Melbourne since he won at Moonee Valley. His owner has decided to take him to Sydney, as he does not like the way the Victorian handicappors are treating him. Visiting! trainers at Trentham are highly satisfied with the condition of the tracks at tho present time, and if fine weather continues till AVednesday next fast itimes should be put up in tho different races.

The not commission on the totalisatur inveatments 011 the Sockburn Handicap at the C.J.C. Meeting amounted to „E373 2a. 6d., and this amount will be handed over to the Belgian ltelief Fund. It was probably tho Caulfield owner, Mr. E. A. Connolly, that priced Warstep. has bad a gxeat opinion, of tho Hartiaa inaro. for a long time, and onco previously ho offered a big sum for her. The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club decided some time ago to make a donaition to the Belgian Relief Fund, in the shape of the net profits from the totalisator on the Autumn Handicap, at the Kaster Meeting. The club's contribution from this source will amount to .£172 17s. -Id. At a reccnt race meeting in Cairo 0110 of the races was won by an unknown horse culled Ballance, who was ridden b,v Hie ex-New Zealand cross-country horseman, J. Stewart. The latter belongs ito one of the Australian contingents. The programme for the Autumn Meeting of the Marlborough Racing Club is a good one, and should attract a larga number of nominations from the North Island. None of tho hack handicaps is worth less than .£IOO, and good provision is made for second and third horses. Tho Cup is endowed to the extent of .£250. including »• tine silver nip v.-ilucl iii. "0 sovs. Nominations dose with the secretary, Mr, T.. <trifi}th.!, Blenheim, 011 Fn> jUk eruun% ueit.