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NOTES AND COMMENTS

: [Br Gmncoe.l •'

! Acceptances for the Manawatu Hunt .Club meeting close to'-morro'w night. Trainers and jockeys should not overlook the fact that applications for licenses for the coming season must be in_ the hands of the seoretary of the District Comriiittee, by 4 p.m. to-day. ■■

, -Private ■ received in Cliristchnreli record the success of .The Polo in'.tlie-Kensington Steeplechase, of 300 sovs,'two miles, on the middle day.of the V'.R.O; arieeting. .

Now that the camp has been shifted from Trentham there should be every chance of : the-Wellington Racing Club getting , off its' . Steeplechase Meeting next', month. :\

.Word; was ,received at Trentham last week that Beacon, ■ list. 21b., had finished second in tho Hurdles at Warwick Farm on July. 3. His stable-companion Killaloo was freighted at lOst. 101b., but had the pen put. through his name. :

Tho New Zealand horseman H. Lorrigan has been, granted a jockey's licenso by the Australian Jockey Club.

When' Guncap raced in the V.R.C. Grand National Steeples on Saturday at Flemington he was making his fourth appearance in the race. Booligal, who filled third place, is a full-brother,'both being by Carbinier from Benzine.

;; Maori Mat is the. name that has been selected by Mr. E. J. Watt for the two-year-old, colt by' Maori; King—Tatters. He is a half-brother to Mrs. ;Wiggs', Tatterley, and Blacking. ' ;

i .Monolith, tho colt by Mountain Bang from Marguerite, by Lochiel, purchased by Mr. E. J. Watt for 800 guineas, is said .to bo the tallest of his age in training at Randwick, and is therefore .well named.,. ...

; '.Mr... G.v L:: •, Stead's, jumpers Tim Doolan, The Pole, and his recent purchase Plymouth will be ' shipped back' from Melbourne'this week.. The firstuamed: will doubtless be his owner's representative- in the. National. ; Steeplechase, and Plymouth will carry the livery in the big hurdle race.

Now that ho has had some racing in Victoria, ".Tim Doolan should strip a .very fit,librae atjiiccarton next month. lii.'the matter oFcofiditiori he will have the advantage over several of the muchfancied National horses.

A sußKestion. has been mado that in future the riding fees of jockeys should bo taxed 6 per cent., the proceeds l to go to tho Wounded Soldiers' Fund. ■ It is -pointed , out that this .would bring iii on an avorago £20 per racing day, ,and,as there are about 350 racing days in, the' Dominion, a. goodly sum would be tho-result of a year's .working,

The Gisborne meeting last; week was the third successive;fixture at which B. Deeley has failed to ride a winner. With the. postponement of the Wellington meeting his chance of reaching the . century before theehd of July appears remote.

Tho 'three-year-old filly Tupatu, by All Black (imp.)—Tupoiio, has been purchased" by Mr. T. F. Walker, of Wai roa, for breeding purposes.

The jumper, Agatha Green, will strip a much-'improved mare when next she races. The enforced ■ spell ; she had enabled her. to build up, considerably) and she is now a much stronger animal -than when. she. raced; at Wanganui.. Pavlova has been taken up again after a spell of nearly three months. The bay mare looks wonderfully, well, and should soon he able .to reproduce her best form. ■ Flash Jack, who defeated Tim Doolan in the' Flemington National Steeplechase, was a runner in tho Din,<;ley Steeplechase at the Melbourne Hunt Club. Meeting, but he finished out of-a place; " In Saturday's race he was ridden by B.' Price, son of the well-known exNew Zealand trainer, D. J. Price.

G. Scobie, who formerly occupied the position-of ■•private trainer,to .Mr. Hai> vey Patterson at Iticcarton, is now, riding over fences in Melbourne. He lias been engaged to do the : riding for .1, Scobie's stables. - .

The Auckland horse Nicomar, and ,a hunter arrived at Riccarton on Thursday in charge of G. Malcolm.

Nightwatch ha 6 again given trouble with one jof his feet. After work on Thursday'-he. walked'rather sorely, and was riot brought, to the, course on Friday morning.

Tho idea, of racing White' Cockade over' the big country has been abandoned. The Finland gelding (says a Christchurcli exchange)' is safe cuough over the obstacles, but is just too sale, and wastes a lot of time m endeavouring to negotiate them without harm to himself.

•FIXTURES. ' July 21—Manawatu Hunt Steeplechase. July 28—Pahiatua E.C. Annual. July 28—Birchwood Hunt Steeplechase. July. 29—Waimate District Hunt Steeplechase. ■ July 29—Woodlands Hunt Steeplechase. July 29—North Tavanaki Hunt Steeplechase. ..... July 31—Pakuranga Hunt Annual. ' August 10, 12, 14 —C.J.C. Winter.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2511, 12 July 1915, Page 8

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Tapeke kupu
735

NOTES AND COMMENTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2511, 12 July 1915, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2511, 12 July 1915, Page 8

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