THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2515, 17 July 1915, Page 12

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS [By .Glencoe.] Owners are Tcinindcd thnt accoptances for tho Piihiatua. Eacinpr_ Club's Annual Meeting nml for the Woodlands Hunt Meeting cloiio on Tuesday next. .Mr. Geo. Morso lias been reappointed handicapper and Jh'. I'. W. Edwards starter to the Avondnle jockey Club. Delegato was schooled over a round, of hurdles at EUerelie on Tuesday morning last. With A. Julian in the saddle, tho son of Phoebus Apollo gavo a good dieplay. Tho alteration in tho dates of tho Gisl>orno Winter Meeting means that,, in future years, the winter fixtures at ElIcrplie; Gislwrne, Napier, and Hastings will follow in tho order named. It remains to bo seen whether tho now arrangement will benefit the Gisborno Club. Sir George Clifford's Winter Cup candidate, Wiso Bird, when on tho tan (it Ricearton on Tuesday, doing three-quarter pace work, struck herself rather heavily in front, and will again require a spell, tho injury consisting of a badly-bruieed quarter. E, Hatch is going to settle in Masterton, and proposes starting business as a trained in that ccntre. A local owner j lias promised to send a couple of horses to Hatch's stable. i Armagh and Valentine, accompanied the first time by Hasin and the last time by Taugihaere, jumped the big fences iu the centre of tlio course at Ellefslie on Tuesday morning. ' Valentino made a faulty jump at the first fence, of the double, Roach making a good recovery, but otherwise the quartet fenced in good style. Ouo of the Tattersall's tickots on Eathfarnham in the V.R.C. Giand National Hurdle Race is reported to be held by a local syndicate.' •El Gallo is leported to be moving along on tho EUerslio tracks as if his enlarged knee causes him not tho slightest trouble. Kehandicapping winners is a practice not favoured by the stipendiary stewards' committee. In all cases, the conditions (so the committee thinks) should provide for penalties for winners. The Manawatu Hunt Steeplechase Meeting takes place on Wednesday next on the Awapuni .Racecourse. As a direct result of Mr. Vanderbilt's death racing in America is to lose for this year at least ono of its most prominent figures, Mr. H. I'. Whitney, who is Mr. Vanderbilt's brother-in-law, and has leased his raciug stable to Mr. L. S. Thompson. The lease means the transfer of the largest racing establishment in America, as well as the transfer of the string racing for Mr. Whitney in England under the management of A. J. Joynor. By the terms of the lease James Eo.we will continue to train the American team, and .they will fill the engagements made for them hy Mr. Whitney. There aro at least thirty horses in .the stable, and they have been liberally engaged, in all the best; stakes of the year. Besides Regret, some of the principal horses aro Boi'row, Harmonicon, Pandean, Prince Henry, Spun Glass, Sam Slick. Etru6can, and a big string of two-year-olds. FIXTURES. July 21—Manawatu Hunt Steeplechase, July 28—Pahiatua B.C. Annual. July 29—Woodlands Hunt Steeplechase. July 29—North Taranaki Hunt Steepleohasii. Aug. 10, 12, U-C.J.C. Winter. Sept. I—Marton.J.C. Spring, Sept. 2—Kangitikei Hunt Annual, RUGBY THE PETONE-ATHLETIO FIXTURE. Keen interest is being displayed in the first meeting of tho season of Petono and Athletic, which is to take place at the Athletic Park this afternoon. Siilco tho unavoidable postponement of Saturday last, both teams aro reported to have put in some very steady work in their-gymnasiums, and those who attend tho park to-day may expect a strenuous game. The suburban team has a very strong team, while their opponents will have the team they have relied on-right through, aiul which has secured victory for thorn in every encounter to date. There will be only one match at the park, as with the removal of the Trcntliain Camp the University team has a bye and the big contest will be played north and south as in representative games. The game is expected to draw the biggest crowd seen at the park for somo time past. Tliero v.-ill be the usual early games to interest early arrivals;