NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2483, 9 June 1915, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fBT Glencoe.]

Those who intend nominating for the Gisborne meeting should note that entries close on Friday next. The stake money is on the big side, and dt should not be a difficult matter to win a raca there. The report of the Programme Committer of the Wellington Racing Club, which has_ been approved, recommends that the prize money for the winter meeting to be held next month should be the same as last year. Jockeys C. Emerson and S. Reid, who have been riding at the Auckland Winter Meeting, went.south last evening. They are returning for the Hawko's Bay meeting next week. The Mertiwee gelding Paoli was to bo P"~ up lor sale last Monday. Jockey H. Cairns, who has been riding tn Victoria for (the past coupl* of years, is thinking of returning to Wellington to settle. Cairns can still go to scale at Bst., and if he decides to return here he should soon establish a good riding connection. Reports from Caulfield, where Tim Doolan is trained, state that the Grand National winner is much above himself in condition, and there is little chanoe of him being seen at his best in the big events in Victoria. The sum to the Wounded Solphl"3 by the jockeys who rode at Ellerslie on King's Birthday amounted to aMs. Advices from Melbourne by ithis week's mail state that the Vasoe horse Di Gama is looking very well after his 6pell, Hu is how trained by his owner, F. C. Davis. From New Plymouth comes word that trainer Jas. O'Neill, who has been in Melbourne for some time past, intends returning to the Dominion. Hie local trainer, A. Goodman, intends trying Hap Dha over hurdles, and the chestnut is to be schooled over tho small fonces ithis week. It is stated that the Wellington Racing Club intends giving a donation of £1000 to the 'Hounded Soldiers' Fund. No doubt other clubs will follow the lead oi' the local body. The committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club lias decided that the New Zealand Cup conditions be tho same as last year. A't the C.J.C. Gr;vnd National meeting the only changes of any note in tho programme is an increase of .£2OO in the stakes tor the Hunters' Hurdles, Hunt Club Clin, Avonhea'd Handicap, Sumner Handicap, and Redcliffs Handicap. The distance of the Hunt Club Cup is to be reduced to two and a half miles, and that of the Grand National Hurdles increased to about two and a quarter miles. The Manawatu Trotting Club's meeting takes place to-day. Local visitors can secure excursion fares on the morning tratn3, and can return home the same evening. All trains stop at Awapuni to set down and . pick up passengers. The Woodlands Hunt Club is to hold its first totalisator meeting on July 2», the day following the Pahiatua fixture. A programme of six events has been drawn up, and stakes to the value of .£212 are to bo giren. The name of Sabana has been claimed for the half-sister rfco Pavlova by Rokeby. St. Sutvrus (St. Ambrose-Gitonella) was among the winners at the Richmond meeting on May 21. Uncle Sam has already run in three Caulfield Cup 3, two of which he has wen. This year he has again been entered for ithe big mile and a half event, and if ho continues to train on his owner will no doubt allow him to try and equal tho retcrd of Paris, who won three Cup 3.