NOTES AND COMMENTS
[By Glsncoe.] in advertisement in this issue reminds those concerned, that acceptances for the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club's first' day's handicaps must 1)6 made to-night. The imported horse Martian has a full list at 75gns. for the coming season. _From Auckland it is reported that Nicomar has changed hands, but is to remain at Ellerslie. On Monday there will bo a general exodus of local horses to the Hawke's Bay meeting. J. H. Prosser is taking Naupata, Aratiatia, and Scrutineer; 0. Scott is taking Fashion Plate and Malta garde;, E. Kingan Boon; and J. Grarostock Nedra. Included amongst the passengers for Sydney by the Moeraki on Thursday was the New Plymouth trainer R. Johnson, who has gone over to prepare Toa Tere and Lord Multifid for their spring en. gagoments. The Hastings-trained General Webb was badly hurt when he fell in the Maiden Steeplechase at Ellerslie, and it will be some time before Mr. H. M. Campbell's gelding will be fit to raco again. Weights for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups "srill be issued simultaneously on Monday, June 21. It will be iiir teresting to see how the Victorian handicappers view Reputation's ability as a galloper. Waistep has mot been allowed to eat the oats of idleness for long, and she is in light work at Riccarton with a new to spring racing.' Her stable mates, Snub and the Bonny Glen.—Gyp filly, hare also rejoined the active brigade. While doing her preliminary for the Campbell Hurdles at the Ellerslie meeting Immensity burst a blood-vessel, and had to be withdrawn from the race. The money invested on her number on the machine totalled nearly' <£400, but could not be returned to the investors, who thus lost their money without having a chance to win. Part XXV, Clause 10, says (inter alia) that no refund shall be made after a horse has weighed out. Now if a rider weighed out for a horse that was not on the course—which is a possibility if not a probability—tho horse's number would be put on the machine, and the public would be allowed to invest on it, and could not get their money refunded though they would havo no chance of winning. An Auckland writer, in commenting on the Immensity case, concludes-"It is one of tho arguments in favour of the totalisator that you are sure of getting a start for your monev, hut it would seem that there is nearly as much risk in betting on the machine as there is through other channels. A revision of the rule is badly needed." It is to be hoped that when the Racing Conference sits in Wellington next month this antiquated rule will bo looked into. If not, there is a danger of the Potter's Paddock riot being repeated on some future occasion. In discussing Lion, a winner at the Dunedin Jockey Club's winter meeting, a southern scribe says:—"As a foal Lion was such a weakling and had a joint bo bent that ho looked hopeless as a racing proposition. So much so was this the case that Mr. Brown, who purchased Zemlia and other marts for Mr. S. Green at the dispersal of the Elderslie stud, save him to the stud groom of the latter establishment, Tho gelding, hoy-
ever, thrived, and grew into the commanding and robust horse that won at Wingatui last week. Mr. Green will be pleased that Zemlia, who is now at the Shipley stud, can produce winners. Lion is Zemlia's first foal." In. local sporting circles it is thought that the Hawke's Bay Steeplechase will be contested by a weak field. The opinion is general that the handioapper has given. a very flattering invitation to the owner of Daylight Bill to send the Wanganui Steeplechase winner north once more. It will be remembered that the grey gelding won the Wanganui Steeplechase, three miles, by fully 100 yards. On the 6econd day he was weighted Ht list. 131b., and was sent out favourite,, but got blinded at the double and vuiBhipped his rider. Soporific won, and the Lethe gelding is now asked to meet the grey on 15lb. worse terms, though the distance is half a mile further to go, and Soporific has never won over this distance, while Daylight Bill has. Going back a little further it .will readily be conceded how Daylight Bill's form quite overshadows any of the other performers when they raced over hurdles. So far iff is not definitely known if Mr. D. Rutherford intends to send his gelding up, ■but the probabilities are all in. favour of the trip eventuating. It is understood that the well-known rider B. Berry contemplates retiring from the saddle. He has a farm in the North Otago district, and intends going in for breeding, and may also train a horse or two. Amongst his ideas for the future is the importation of a stallion from England. The Hawke's Bay Jockey Club will, at the Racing Conference, bring forward a motion that full reports of evidence given in appeals to the conference be printed and circulated to all totalisator clubs.
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