NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2694, 14 February 1916, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

IBy <3lescob.T , 1 A meeting very popular with Welling- ' lon, Mauawatu, and W.airarapa owners is the Nelson fixture. The Cup will this year be worth 300 sovs., and will be run over a nine-furlongs course, ' while the big handicap on tko second day will bo ' the statuory mile and a quarter. In addi- J tion to these events there are three open' * sprint events and fivo hack races, wliilo four trotting events will also be found on 1 the programme.' Secretary J. Glen ivill receive entries for all events up till 9 o'clock to-night. Acceptances for the Manawatu Trotting Club's meeting to be held on Saturday . next close to-night. There will be racing this week at Woodvillo on Wednesday and Thursday, Dunedin on Wednesday, Thursday, and Satur- 1 day, and at Hamilton (South Auckland) on Friday and Saturday. Pursefiller was saddled up three, times ; lit G labor jig on Saturday. In her first race she was unsuccessful, but later on sho won the principal event, and also I tho' concluding event. ( J When A. Oliver left here on Friday night he liad only one ride at Wingatui, viz., l'anmure, in the Publicans' Handicap, but it is likely that he will bo found on First Glanco in the Cup. The local light-weight, It. Reed, jourueys to Dunedin to-night to ride the members of R. Longley's team at Wingatui. Reed lias been engaged to steer Sir Alba in the Wanganui Cup. 'Che Boniform—Effort youngster in J. Ayer's stables is now a regular track , worker at Trentham. Mr. D. Rutherford's jumpers Mescal and ■ Daylight Bill have again been sent to j Riocarton to be prepared for jumping < engagements later on in the season. F. 15. Jones till be on Snub in the I Dumedin Clip. The war has not affected racing much in ~|ustralia. V.R.C. entries run. up to i tho huge total of 748, being over a century moro than ever before and 172 more than last year. ' The Highden horse Expect is to fulfil his engagement in the Woodvillo Cup, in : which lie has Sst. The Advance horse has shown no form for a considerable time, but lie is coming down in the weights, and once he strikes form ho can be depended upon to win two or three times in succession. On the Awapuui tracks, with a moving start, the bay horse gallops as well as ever he did, but in his races ho does not seem able to begin. A slow-run race in the early stages of the Woodville Cup would suit him. Tho locally-owned Rumania lias got in at the minimum in tho Woodville Cup. Mr. 11. Whitney's liorse is much in favour with early pickers, who rely on his Riccarton form. It is pointed ouit that he piloted the field, for ten furlongs in the Midsummer Handicap. The Riccarton trainer, Mr. Hobbs, has eight horses engaged at the Dunedin Cup * meeting this week. While schooling King Torrent nt Wiligatu on Friday last J. WalUs received a heavy fall and was renoercd unconscious, but later on in the day ho had quite recovered. ' The officers and men enqainped at Zeitoun, in Egypt, get any amount of amusement in the way of horse racing; and a programme recently sent by one of the men in camp shows fields to ba large and tho racing interesting. In a race «it the meeting conducted by tho Gezira Sporting Club on December 18, one. winner returned a figure topping the century. In fact, good returns were tho order of the day. Bookmakers and tho pari mutnel are the betting mediums, and one of tho rules of the latter reads, "In no case will the pari mutnel return to the holder of n. winning ticket a less sum than the sum invested." This is on placed bets as ' well, and where seven horses start the i machine pays a. dividend on first, second', and third. With six starters only a first and second dividend is declared, and in the case of only three horses, or les-s, ' competing, only one dividend is declared. Soldiers in uniform are admitted to all ' parts of the course and enclosures for a | sum equal to about a shilling in English ' money. At one of tho meetings the Ma--1 liaki gelding, Waldsmar, who used to c carry .Mr. W. J. Jorgeuson's colours here, " won a double. Tho aged gelding Tannhauser, by Mar- ' tian—Grand Opera, has been taken in r hand again bv P. M'Grath, and another attempt will to made to get him through u preparation. Ho has bc.eu off tho sceno 1 for ft long time, but he. looks well after 2 his rest. ® Honorine, by Soult—Czarevna, has been * racing well in Victoria for some time. ' Sho was. sent to Tasmania last month, 11 mid added to her account. At the Laun- * ceston meeting she wou the ■ Blackwell Handicap, while at "ewnham she car- > vied 9st. 31b. and won the Newnham Cup, 1 Vioth races being run over a mile, f Captain Greer has been appointed sole ' controller of the Tally Stud, which was •1 lately acquired by tho British Govern- , mont. It is stated by a well-informed t London writer that but for Lord Kitchener's roturn to England just in time, Colonel Hall-Walker's offer in respect of tho horses at 'fully and Russley would liavo been turned down. Weights for tho hack events at the Wanganui meeting and revised weights fif i- necessary) tho Wanganui Cu.p are due to' on Friday next. Acceptances for— all events close on Monday next, and a. subio sci'iption is also due for the Jackson