NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2495, 23 June 1915, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[BT QlinCOl.l Acceptances for tho Gisborne Racing Club's Winter Meeting are due on Thursday evening. Entries for the principal events at the C.J.C. Grand National Meeting close on Friday evening. The Patriotic Trotting Meeting to be held at Petone on Saturday promises to be a success. GOO 4 entries have been received and if the weather is fine the sport provided should be of a high order. The Winter Meeting of the Napier Park Racing Club will bo held on Friday aud Saturday of this week. It is noticeable that Master Lupin is entered for both tho Parliamentary Handicap and Winter Hurdles run on the opening day of the Trentham Meeting, but his stable companion, Awahou, figures in the hurdle events only. Ng.itiruanui, of whom great things ate expected as a steeplocliaser, has yet to make his appearanco in a cross-country event, lie is entered for the big steeplechase at Trentham and his owner will no doubt send him north for a public schooling pvinr to taking on tho National' b t'G 0 p1 CC ll tIS 6 • There is little chance of Scots Guard being seen out at Trentham, as he has been railed from Sydney to Melbourne to contest the Fleraington National Steeplechase run on July 10. He may be back in time to race at Eiccarton in August. For 6omo time past it has been rumoured that Haskayne was to be schooled for hurdle racing, but apparently his good form on the flat has decided his trainer against this course for this sea, son at anyrato. Tho Karamu candidate figures in the flat events at the Wellington Meeting, but not in any hurdl® races. Canterbury owners aro fairly well represented at the Winter Meeting of th® Wellington Racing Club. Daylight Bill and Ngatiruanui figure in the principal steeplechases; White Cockade in the Hack and Hunters' Steeplechases; Commotion in the open hurdle races; and Snowraker and Moililite in the hack hurdle races; while Briar Patch, Cervulus, Slogan, The Cornet, Banksia, Free, Encore and Sir Hamilton aro engaged ib events on the flat. The New Plymouth-trained Sandy Paul is to be a starter in the principal steeplechases at Napier _on Friday and Saturday. He was railed through in charge of P. Johnson yesterday. When Sauci ran third in the Richmond Cup on Saturday he was weighted at 9st. Sib. North Eist, who la 6 been spelling at Newcastle for some months past, was entered in the Welter Handicap at the recent Wallsend Meeting, but did not faco tho starter. Lady Lightfoot, dam of the recordpriced horse Prince Palatine (£40,000), after being barren for thr.ee seasons, foaled a colt to Royal Realm in April. The last-mentioned stallion is by Persimmon from Sandblast. At the Albion Park Meeting in Brisbane early this month there was «>m« unpleasantness associated with the running of the Second Division Handicap. A, horse' named Mir fell and the stipendiaries opened an inquiry into the accident. The matter ended in a brawl and the police had to be called in to restore order. When the stipendiaries emerged from the room they were found to bear marks of the encounter, and one of them Imd been slashed across the face with a whip, and another had a damaged eyo, caused by falling on a chair. According to all accounts Bon Ton was a bit unlucky to miss the Aldermen's Tup at the recent Adelaide Meeting. Tho New Zealand-bred horse was talcen to the front six furlongs from home and lie only succumbed in the last stride to Orvieto, who won by a head. Matters are quiet a t Trentham just ■Tow n.s several of the regulars are spellin". J. W. I-owo is working several vearlings. one of whom, the full-sister to Nii>e=. shows great nromise. In answer to "Kewrious" (Feilding), it may be 6tated that Endeavour, the dani of Effort, competed at tho Horowhenua Races in March, 1903.