NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2485, 11 June 1915, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By Glencoz.] 3 Acceptances for the Hastings Meeting j close on Monday night. , Nominations for all events at tho Gisborne Meeting close to-night at 9 o'clock. 5 Nominations for the Winter Meeting 1 of the Wellington Racing Club close on ■ Friday, June 18. 3 J. Whitworth, formerly a well-known New Zealand owner, now of Randwick, won a race at Kernbla Grange on May 27 with the Sir Laddo gelding Fordeil. , The winner -was in at the minimum. ; Sonite (Field Battery—Wish) won the 1 Park Stakes, six furlongs, at Gosford on ' June 1. The black horse's previous suc--9 cess in Australia was also gained at this - meeting. l The steeplechasers Tim Doolan, The - Pole, Fireworks, and Scot's Guard have 8 been nominated for the V.R.C. Grand NaB tional Steeplechase to be run at Flemings ton on July 10. JR. J. Mason has nominated Emperador for the Epsom and Metropoitan Handicaps, to bo decided at the Australian ' Jockey Club's Paring Meeting. Unless " some of his rising two-year-olds show pro- ' miso there is little chance of the Riccar--3 ton trainer making the trip. Sydney handicappexs still hold a very 9 high opinion of Lord Multifid, and reccntr ly tho Now Zealand-bred gelding was 1 weighted within slb. of Spurn, a weightg for-age winner, and probably the best J mile performer in Australia. J. M. Cameron has nominated Herex ford and Immensity for the big hurdle j races in Victoria next month. On the form tho latter has shown this year sho j may not be taken across the water, but , the owners of Hereford may decide to make the trip. Advices from Bulls state that Awahou was staked while racing at Wanganui, and this is the reason of his absence from the Hastings meeting. The injury is not serious and the Mahaki gelding will probably be nominated at the Trentham Meeting. Jockey W. O'Halloran is returning to Melbourne next week. The reported breakdown of Bollin could not have been as serious as was antici- " pated, for the Birkenhead gelding figures r amongst the entries at the Hawke's Bay 3 and Napier Park Meetings. Mr. W. E. Bidwill's colt Reputation has been entered for the big spring handicaps ■in Sydney and Melbourne. During the progress of tho Dunedin . Meeting: Marsa changed hands. His now owner is Mr. J. Hymers, who used to j race Soldiers' Chorus. Giralda was sold during the D.J.C. Meeting to Messrs. Deegan and Stivens, of Southland, the price, it is stated, being ,£4OO. Giralda raced in the colours of his now owners on the second day. It is reported that C. Church, tho welll known Southland cross-country horseman, , has volunteered for the front, and will leave with the next lot of reinforcements _ for Trentham. ~ The ex-KiccaTton horseman, F. Douglas, ™ p according to private advices recently re- ' ceived, has exchanged his position as orderly for the more strenuous life in the trenches. At latest J. Hagerty was still in Egypt. Daylight Bill was given a turn over tho big fences at Riccarton this week but he - jumped very badly. This was his first - jump since tho Wanganui Meeting, l 1