THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 6 July 1915, Page 8

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS WELLINGTON EACES POSTPONED. [Br. Guincoe.;! There will bo no race meeting at Trentbam this month. The" stewards of the Wellington Bacing Club met- yestcrday .aftcrnpon, and decided to postpone the ■Winter Meeting until after the Canter,'bui'y Jockey Club's Grand National fixture (A-ngnst 10, 12, and It). If tho condition. of the patients at .Trenthara will then allow of-the racing club resuming ;possessiori of its buildings; a date will be filed for the races.. In tho .meantime all nomination money will be returned, and it is quite possible that] if the races are held eventually a new programme will be drawn up. ' Now that the Trentham -Meeting has ■ been postponed) the only remaining fixtures in the North Island before the season ' closes are the Pahiatua races and four Hunt Cliib fixture?.; ■ The veteran 'trainer, E." MalonS, was very successful with his horses at the Gisborne Racing Club's Steeplechase Meeting. ■ His team included (winner of two.races), Carburetter (a, winner), Potentiality (two seconds), and Alultifual (second).-- : . Although El Gallo has been having a comparatively easy time of it since capturing the Great Northern double (says "Phaeton" in the Auckland "Herald"), there is ; plenty of time to get him right for Canterbury engagements next month. Nevertheless,.' liis - knees do not fill the observant with too much confidence, and it would 'not be surprising to learn that the joints mentioned-will cause a lot of anxiety to Trainer P. Jones in the future. . It was announced that Grey King had to be .destroyed, after his accident in the Park Hurdles at, Gisborne, but ■ such ia not the case, as the horse is running in the paddock with a wrenched -fetlock. / Between everits J at the'Gisborne Trots, :A., M'Leod sprinted-?three", 'rising two-year-olds— Gazeleyr-La Sabine (J. O'Shea), Gazeley—Yankee Mary (Croskio), and Gazeley—Pauline (C. ; Brown). The lastnamed showed'tol-most advantage. Geo. ! J ones also sprinted three: Multaine (Multifid—Lady: Ainsley) (W. Eyan), Eetard (Multifid—Miss . Dawdle) (B. De'eley), .Chemise (Multiply—Lady. Augusta) (Jennings). Eetard, a well-grown youngster, showed the way home. . In. connection with-' the • Ascot Meeting i his year in England, l there is a, proposal on foot to utilise the Eoyal enolosuro for visitors ,at a high admission fee, the proceeds to go to one of the war funds. . . While, racing in England and on tlio Continent is being carried on in more or less snatchy' fashion,' it is going very strongly indeed' in the Argentine. Owners get much better Value for their money out there than in England, for in races worth' -1(100 dollars to the winner; the entrance fee is only 40 dollars, so that an owner is getting 100 to 1 to his money, with, the chance of 400 dollars for finishing second, or 100 dollars for. .finishing third thrown in. \ , .'■■ Mr. A, G. Piliricr has- given notice to move at the annual meeting of the Mastertori E«cing Club, to be held on July 28: "That all members of the club ithat have joined, or may in the future join, the Expeditionary Forces, shrill be deemed to be members without payment of the annual subscriptions, during their absence or_ during the continuance of the war." , »

, At a- meeting of stewards of the Masterton Eacing Club on Saturday last, a' comiAittee.was set up to prepare & new 6et of by-laws for the club. It was decided "i» oppose the -proposed new rule givinjj the Eacing Conference power to appoint racecourse dcitectives to act on all courses.' :..Mr. C. I'. Vallancs was appointed delegate to the annual, meeting of the Country Eacing Clubs' Association. FIXTURES. July 21—Manawatu: Hunt Steeplechase, July 28—Pahiatua. E.C. Aoimial.' July 28—Birchwood Hunt Steeplechase. July 29—Waimate District Hunt Steeplechase. - ; July 29—Woodlands Hunt Steeplechase. July 2D—North Taranaki Hunt Steeple- ' chase. ■ July 31—Pakuranga'Hunt'Anrntal, " • August 10, 12, 14—C.J.C. Winter.-