NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2522, 24 July 1915, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

' [By Giencoi.] ■ The Pahiatua, Racing Club's ' meeting takes place on Wednesday next, and will be. followed, by the Woodlands Hunt Club meeting on.the following day. • Tragedy King! is to leave Auckland for Eiccarton.on'Monday;week, v i Rapanui and Mann, two of the winners at. the 7 Manawatu Hunt Club's meeting, ■ are engaged at Pahiatua next week. ■ B. Deeley is -riding Prince Soult in his work at Ellerslie, and will have the mount on the son of Soult in the Auckland Welter at the Pakuranga Hunt Club's meeting next week. The well-known horseman W. Ryan, who has been living in Auckland for some time past, is coming south next week to . fill riding engagements: at the. Pahiatua . meeting., } i '' Mr. H. A. Knight has sent two more horses from Racecourse Hill to the care of F. D. Jones, at Riccarton. One of them is a three-year-old filly'by Vase?— Flame, dam of Suttee, - Tikitere;- and Ifumura. and the other is a two-year-old

gelding by Downshire-jßotmtiful, by Pilgrim's .Progress—Neroli. F. Holnies, iunr., has recommissioned the two-year-olds Moidant, by MartianLady Lochiel, and Pyjama, by MartianBloomer. . The Australian-bred two-year-old Malvolia, by Menscliikoff —Nante, has been taken in hand /again by >F. T. Smith, at . lticcarton. Soon after the outbreak of war a prom-, • inent Manawatu sportsman suggested that I the profits from all race meetings should i be devoted to the Patriotic Funds until • the end of the war. His suggestion did i not appear to find favour in many quar- ■ ters, though many racing clubs have made handsome donations to the funds. It is now being suggested that instead of placing an-additional thei clubs, the Government should'tako over' all "fractions," which the clubs withhold from backers of tho first and second horses. It has been pointed out that where 2000 or more tickets are invested on tho winner, the "fractions" might in some cases total close on i!SO. The annual report of the Masterton Racing Club allows that a sum of ,£2!)35 was given in stakes last year, an increase of. ,£475 over the previous year. Tho farm account showed a gross profit of JE252. Members' subscriptions amounted to iE237. The receipts from the totalisator amounted to 16s. sd.