NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2487, 14 June 1915, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By Glencoe.l Socrejary W. J. Stratton, of tho Hawke's Bay Jockey Club, will receive acceptances lor the first day's handicaps of the winter meeting up till 9 o'clock tonight. It is estimated that the Wairarapa Trotting Club will show a profit of about .£IOO over its recent meeting. This amount is to bo donated to tho Patriotic Fund. Owing to the death of Mr. A. B. Williams's father, Multiply has been withdrawn from all engagements at the Hawke's Bay and Napier Park meetings. Owners of yearlings should note that on Friday next entries for the principal weight-fcr-ago events at tho .Canterbury and Auckland meetings will close. W. E. Bidwill, president of the H airarapa Racing Club, is at present on a visit to Wellington. The Foxton Itacing Club has voted •£IOO to the Hospital Ship Fund. Alakara, who now races in the colours of A. Neale, of Greenmeadows, will be given a run over sticks at Napier next week. The Christchurch owner, Mr. H. Taylor, is leaving i'or Sydney by this week's boat. Ho has reduced his team considerably, having sold Marsa and given Coroniiorm away. The fact that na accommodation has been booked for Daylight ..Bill at Hastings makes it appear as if the grey gelding will not be seen out at the Hastings or Napier meetings. Probably he will be brought to Wellington and given a race here before the National meeting. Jockey W. O'Halloran intended leaving for Melbourne this week, but he has been offered several mounts during the Hawke's Bay circuit, and he lias now postponed his departure until after the National meeting, at Riccarton. Achilledes is missing from tho Gisborne entries, though his full-brother Achilleus figures in the entries for the fiat events. It is noticeable that Sensitive is engaged ill flat events at the coming Hastings meeting, but he is entered for the hurdles at the Napier meeting tho week following. Hewanga is going well on the tracks at Gisborne, and reports say he will be one of-the early favourites for the Winter Cup. The death is reported from Ashburton of that great racecourse favourite, Lady Lillian, who in the early part of this century won quite a number of good races in the colours of Mr. 13. Gates. Her finest achievement was that of winning tho. C.J.C. Great Easter and Autumn double in 1903, while quite a number of handicap events also came her way. After a lot of racing she was retired to the stud, but none of her progeny turned out to be much good. The Otago mare, Sister Radius, by Charlemagne ll—St. Eegis, is understood to have run her last race, and she will go to the stud next season. Rustic is showing good form over steeplechase fences at Poverty Bay. He is credited with showing more promise than The Pole did when trained in the same district last year. .The conditions of the Hack Steeplechase at Napier stipulate that entrants must not have won a steoplechnso to tlw value of 100 sovs. Apparently the owners of Master "Webb and General Webl: overlooked this, as both horses have won over this amount, and will have to be withdrawn from the Napier race. The Napier Park Racing Club has decided to devote fifty percent of the profits of its forthcoming meeting to a fund f or tho treatment of wounded and invalided Hawke's Bay soldiers. Mr. W. H. Field, M.P., has been elected patron of the Horowhenua Racing Club, and Mr. R. A, M'Donald president.