NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2670, 17 January 1916, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

IBy <3lescob.l The Summer Meeting of the Wellington Racing' Club will open at Trentham on Thursday. The tracks arc in first-class order, with the big fields engaged patrons of "the club should be rewarded with a day's racing of the highest order. The usual up-to-date train arrangements have been made for the conveyance of visitors to the meeting. C. Emerson arrived from the south yesterday. It is announced that B. Deeley have the mount on Blackall in the Wellington Cup. The locally-owned Cup candidate Taringamutu, carrying her Cup weight, ran teni furlongs on Saturday, morning in 2min. lOsec.; She was assisted by Ormesbykover the last five furlongs. Visiting horses are now commencing to arrive at Trentham. On Friday night A. Attwood reached headquarters , witt Tangihou and Flying Spur, and on Saturday morning E. Scotillar, with Martuk, E. Derrett, with Findhorn, and R. Longley, with Bee, put in' an appearance, li. J. Mason arrived yesterday with Nones, Emperador, Bimeter, Swale, and Teeino. Trainers R. O'Donnell, • M. Hobbs, H. Cutts, G. Ayusley, and. W. M'Donald will Teach hero to-moTrow. At Whangarei on Thursday, Yankee Doodle was sent out to contest the Kensington Stakes, i but after unseating B. Deeley a couple of times she bolted, and the race was started without her. : From the machine point*'of view, the presence of Desert Gold in the weight-lor-ago races at Trentham will not be a "boon, for it will restrict betting operations. This was the experience at Ellerslie, where, owing to the smallness of the investments oil the races the crack filly was engaged in, the total for the meeting fell' away considerably. Queen Battory, who is by Comedy King from' the New Zeaalnd-bred Cross Battery, won the two-year-old handicap at tho Mowbray Meeting (Tasmania) on January 8. Whilo assisting the loading of R. J. Mason's team at Lyttelton on Saturday, the light-weight jockey, G. Clarke, received a kick from one of the horses, and he may be unalile to fulfil his riding engagements at the forthcoming meeting. 11.I 1 . Burn is not- trying to win big handicaps with Cherubini, but the Martian gelding seems destined to fill minor places only. At Aspeivdalo Park on January 8, ho finished second in the big handicap to Malvaceous, who started a rank outsider. At tho Canterbury PaTk Meeting on ■January 8 the Maniopoto gelding Toa Tere was agaiA seen in a favourable light, and, starting favourite in the big handicap, he won easily in tho. hands of E. Bracken. Bee and Snub, who aie to take their places in the Wellington Cup field, are lull-sister and brother. A remarkable thing in connection with the Carrington Stakes at Randvfick lately was that Mr. E. A. Haley, the owner of Jckle Lass, announced to a number of friends that he had had a dream, in which he saw; tho race run (states the Sydney "Sun"). He related that one of the horses in the race lost his rider, and sivung out into tho straight, wide of all tlie other horses. His own. maro then came on and- won. This was actually repeated in the race, for Ornate lost his rider, C. Bardenj just before the turn was reached, and, as Mr. Haley saw it in his dream, ran wiue coming into the straight. The Hawke's Bay District Committee sat for several hours in Hastings hearing an appeal against the disqualification by Hie Judicial Committee of the Hawkc's Bay Jockey Club of the owner of the racehorse Croesus (G. F. Hardy) and the trainer of the horse (.T. S. O'Neill) during tho pleasure of the club, on the ground that, Croesus had been pulled in tbe Summer' Handicap, run on the second day of the club's New Tear meeting. and . the cancellation of the license of 11,. Griffiths,, rider of Pursefiller in the same race for giving false information io the stewards. Tho decision of the District Committee was, says a Hawko'.s Bay paper, to the effect that tho decision of tho Judicial Committee of tho Hawke's Buy Jockey Club ho confirmed so far as the same relates to tho owner of Croesus (G. F. Haidy), the . period of whosn rtiaauuliflaatioa wus tiled at three uinntiis.

and'so far as it relates to .T. S. O'Neill, trainer of Croesus, and H. Griffiths, jockey, thai it be not confirmed. At Gosford (N.S.W.) oil January 4, tho Charlemagne ll—Lady Bein.i gelding Canute, at one time trained at iticcarton by E. J. Mason, won the Erina Welter Handicap by half a length. Carrying fist. 71b., he ran.'the milo in lmin. <13sec. Formcdon, the eight-yc-ar-old son of Ainltiform and Otlerden, ilievel'ore, fnllbi'Dther to Sungod luid Boniform, and haii'-i>rotlier to Martian, was represented uy n winner at the Goulburn (N..S.AV.) Bacing Club's Meeting on New Year's Day. RACING FIXTURES. Jan. 20, 22, and 24.—Wellingtoli B.C. Summer. Jan. 22.— Northern' Wairora E. C. Annual. Jan. 22 and 24—1'oxton B.C. Annual. Jan. 25 and 27.—Wairoa County B.C. Annual. Jan. 26 and 29.—Takapuna J.C. Summer. Feb. 2 and 3.— B.C. Summer. Feb. 3 and s.—Gisborne B.C. Summer. Feb. f>— C.J.C. Summer. Feb. 9 and 10.—Taranaki J.C. Autumn. Feb. 10 and 12.—Poverty Bay T.C. Summer. Feb. 12.—T0 Kuiti B.C. Annual. Feb. 16, 17 and 19. —Dunedin J.C. Autumn. Feb. 18 and 19.—South Auckland B.C. Annual. Feb. 19—Tologa Bay J.C. Annual. Feb. 23.—Eotorua J.C. Annual. Fob. 24 and 26.—Wanganui J.C. Autumn. March 4 and 6—Te Aroha J.C: Annual. March 8 and 9.—Nelson J.C. Annual. March 10 and 11.—Napier Park B.C. Au, turnn. i April 22, 2-1, 26 and 29,-Australian J.C. Autumn.