NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2508, 8 July 1915, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

■ [Br' (JißNcoi.l Acceptances for'the'Manawatu Hunt Club's steeplechase meeting close on. day next. .. ~ Ti'aiuers and jockeys should note that applications' for licenses'for'. the eusuing season must be in;the hands of the secretaries of the district committees 'by Monday nexit. Owners and-trainers should note that nominations for the -Pahiatua and Woodlands Hunt Club meeting close on Friday, evening. The Auckland trainor, J. Chaafe, passed through Wellington .yesterday. with two horses for tho National meeting. I The Golden Knight youngster purchased biF the Messrs., Kiddiford from Mr. Christie, of Oamaru, has, arrived at Trentham. Ho is very'much in tlie rough lit present, and Will require time. At Wanganui ,last week Awahou was schooled over 'hurdles in company with Draft. The last-named was of little use to his companion who seems ito be ii greatly improved'horse.

■Mr; M;' C. O'Con noil, of, Masterton,' nominated, his Austiralian-bred horse Two Lights for the New Zealand Cup but the nomination does not appear to have arrived in time.

The fact that G. Jones has only booked accommodation for one horse at Kiccarton makes it look as if Chortle is not to be taken to the National meeting. Advices from Gisborno state that the Gold' Cup winner is running out in the paddock.

The Ferry- (Achilles—Bulbul) has been sold to an Auckland sportsman, and cow to her new. home by the Tarawera to-day. Tini Doolan and Guncap, the dead-heat-ers in the Dingley'Steeplechase at Hoonea Valley, <lo not incur a penalty for the V.R.C. Grand National Steeplechase, to bo run at Flemington on Saturday. .

At the .Geelong meeting on June 30, the principal handicap was, won by the Clanranald gelding Glenfinnan. He was one of the biggest outsiders on ithe field.■ and defeated the favourite, Royal' Arms, by a head.

The fact that Lord Multifid is entered for the New Zealand Cup may mean that his owner intends sending him , back to the Dominion. He is being well looked after by the weight adjusters on the other side, but-they are hardly to blame,-as his form, taking a line through the running of Royal Alice, was distinctly good. He. beat itlio last-named maTe pointless when she was supposed to be in a stono too light; and since her defeat by the New Zealander she lias won. several pood handicaps, including the Richmond Cup, in .which Sauci finished behind her. This being so; it is not to be wondered at that the' handicappers (think highly of Lord Multifid. . The postponement of the Wellington Racing Club's Winter Meeting will not, says a Press' Association telegram from Christchurch, interfere with the meeting of ithe New Zealand Racing Conference, which is to be held in Wellington on Thursday, July 15. The Dates Committee will meet in Wellington on July 13; ' The Board of the New Zealand Trotting Association met last night when the decision of the South Wairaraipa Trotting Club in the appeal case of A. Leggett was considered. It was decided to call the club's .attention to the non-carrying out of Rule 82. It was also decided that in future any rider or. driver being fined for starting before his time be cautioned, anyone fined twice in one season for such offence to have his conduct inquired into by.the board.—Press Association,