THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2512, 13 July 1915, Page 8

THE TURF

; NOTES ;AND COMMENTS

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.. .Acceptances close to-night for the Manawatu' Hunt Club Meeting, to be held on Welnesday next. C. Emerson, who is at present on a holiday trip to Sydney, will be back'for the National Meeting next,month. ' Owing to the heavy etato of the going at,-Trentham very little ; work, lias been, done since Friday, and most of the horses are being N trotted over the Wallaceville hill. . ' As was anticipated, the entries received for • tho Pahiatua. and Woodlandp Hunt Club Meetings are exceptionally large, ;>and both clubs should/have big meetings. Weights are due on Thursday. Neivs by the . Sydney V mail yesterday shows that Rathfarnham was making-iiis maiden appearance iu a. hurdle race when he won the i'lemiugton National. He was one of the rankest outsiders when tho weights appeared, but was well in "the market on the day of the race. This ..was his . only start at the .meeting. V The new owner of Sauci is Mr. S. P. Mackay, of West Australia., The son of Charlemagne II should be.able to pay bis way in : iteight-for-age company in-,'his new quarters. It was the Steeplechasers'' Flat Eace, two miles, that The Pole won on the second day of the Flemington Meeting. .The New Zealand gelding was handicapped at list 51b. . . ■Fiash'Jack, winner of tho V.R.C. Grand National Steeplechase, is a, member of F. Burn's team. The trainer named -was the' leading' cross-country horseman' in Victoria for many years. . . As is generally'known, Stanley, Wootton threw up training to go soldiering soon after the commencement of the war, and the same spirit has shown itself in his brother Frank, who a few weeks 'ago applied. for a. commission, as did the prominent amateur. J. Anthony, who won the 'last Liverpool- Grand Natioiiali on Ally Sloper. y In Durban (South Africa) the stewards ■have barred the entries'.of all horses in which enemy subiects are directly of indirectly'interested, and, recognising that efforts will be made to dodge this rule, are . insisting upon'' fullest proof where change of ownership is alleged to have taken place. During'the past week Jockey R. Gray !has been at Masterton schooling Mr. C. F. Vallauce's jumpers Eternity and Bransfield., When possible Gray will ride the horses named in their coming engagements.' The Racing Conference will sit in Wellington on Thursday and Friday of this week, . Messrs. ,T. G. Duncan and 0. S. Watkins will represent tho Wellington Racing Club. "Weights for the three principal events at the. Grand National Meeting are, due oil Thursday. .; Tho riding of the Auckland-horseman, A. ,T.-M'Flinn, attracted very favourable attention at Flemington, and he -was given plenty of riding there. In -.the V:R.C. Grand National Hurdles lie was put up on Admiral Graiid, and another horseman .was. paid to stand down. -llh« animal put his backers out' of suspense quickly by falling at tho first fence.