NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2477, 2 June 1915, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By Glentoe.] Otaki Maori Eacing Club's Winter Meeting will commence to-morrow and will be concluded on Friday. Train arrangements for the two days are advertised in this issue.

Be™? a good performer in mud will •I 1 ln T favour of Commotion in tho ?i -ii V r< *' es Wingatui to-morrow. It will be remembered that when owned in the North Island Commotion finished second m the Parliamentary Handicap to Portraiture, and was also in a place on the second day of the meeting. Thirteen horses from Trentham stables are being railed to Otaki this morning. J. Scott takes four, A. Goodman has a like number, C. Pritchard is sending two, and H. Telford, J. Adams, and El. Clay, one each.

Although he has a welter impost, John Barleycorn, who is owned at Oamaru, but trained at Wingatui, may be the machine favourite in the Birthday Handicap at the Dunedin Meeting, which opens to-morrow. Providing a suitable horseman can be obtained for Chrysotis she promises to be hard to beat, as prior to leaving Biccarton she had been galloping exceptionally well, and moreover she is good in heavy going. Her owner, Ci. Murray-Aynsley, has been unable to obtain a jockey for her, and it is likely that he will have to put up the apprentice, G. Miissen, but this may not be anything against the mare's chances, as tne lad has been successful on her previously, and as he generally rides her in her work he should know her better than a strange rider.

The Open Handicap, six furlongs, run at Worn (\ ic.) last month was won by Unega (St. Ambrose—Neva), who started a rank outsider. t im at D CauTfiel S d r6POrted to * fnr' Tutcllen did not wait for the Great Ivorthern meeting at Ellerslie probably means, that the new owner ? n \® Ua I d f ? nc J es the hors e's chance ste6plechase at Bandwick on The Daystar gelding Kurnalpi started a hot favourite in the Hurdle Bace at Stof A?SJS IS. "•■*»

J* ave be6n completed for ktI O 'S-i^dr e ffl in 15° Eau ; S 7 P f Maniaroa 50 '^' m S i (iI - M'Donald), Rene H. Lm«) Allen Doone (W. Bell), Geo r "e SiiK'teo"®- hum) ' « j I" pfe s'"," 1 N™ W e ?" London & iffftS - ) k charge of and"the'going on the soft side big meeting to-morrow The wfncin ,1 events are the Cornwall Hanfi -ll * mile? With G ih at Nwth ? rn Hurdles* mnr? , i. , he exc cption of Wim«wi, t c u rc<l un,ler 10st - B 'b., this ?n» i« ? S n ° n won b 7 a horse carry. P r and f he distance was altered. Royal Arms, the National win* Tj ma l A trouWed by the dfste™ seeing that he has not liad a race over fences this year. Morecambe may alsS be troubled in tile Siimc way, but rityrax ™iL g °r •'^ R^ r ' and , is R° od in heavy going. Corrie is an unknown quanity in weli mU EI B«ffi t9P i ° f £ he s u ound he 6^a well. Jjl traJlo, who has been the tavourite since the weights appeared, has a fiin ,we i lgand if lie can act in the goin 0 his light impost should enable him to see out the journey well. •haT' 10 ' n " 16 iCornwall Handicap w not a strong one by any means. Most illrf l? «j™r J'' 11 q " airCl with th « impost allotted Ladoga, and on his best form Emperador seems certain to hold him safe at an advantage of 101b. The latter blew badly on puTlingr up at Y/n----ngauui, and the two races ue had there are certain to do him 110 end of good. There seems to be a doubt about hi# ability to act in the heavy goin?, but it will be remembered that when burdened with lull penalties he mado a very creditable showing behind Parifonn in the North Island Challonge Stakes last year. As to his ability to get the distance, it should be borne in mind that ho won the Egmont Cup, miles, and finished third lo Duke Foote, and Danaus in the Spring Flakes at Raruhvick, ran ever the snine distance.