NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2914, 28 October 1916, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[BT GIENCOB.I The allftntion of owners is drawn' to an advertisement in this issue calling for nominations for the Ashhurst meeting. All cutries close with Secretary A." Trass on "Wednesday next. There is every likelihood of twenty horses going to the post for the New Zeaiand Cup on Saturday next. The Poverty Bay Hunt Club meeting trill take placo to-day. Acceptances for all ovents at the Taratahi meeting closo to-night at 9 o'clock, with Secretary J. B. Bairstow. The Telegraph Office at Carterton is open till .8 p.m. h'icry Cross is the only horse that has earned the maximum penalty of 10lb. for tho Now Zealand Cup.

The New Zealand-bred Barley King, late Elopement, .won, a. i - ace on. the bcc-

ond day of the Goulburn meeting last week, but was subsequently disqualified.

Visitors to tho Carterton meeting on Thursday next should nolo that excursion fares will bo available by the 7iiail

train, which leaves Lambton Station at 7.50 a.m. The return train leaves Car-

terton at G. 30 p.m. Mr. M. C. O'Connell, owner, of Two Lights, was advised by cablegram this week that tho Grafton "golding had-been successful in a Division Handicap at 0110 of the suburban meetings in Melbourne, on Thursday.

Secretary H... S. Moss, of the Hawke's Bay' Jockey Club, was a visitor to Wellington yesterday. He returns to Hastings to-day.

Potentiality, Carlysian, Hcxton, and Cleft wore' dual winners at the Poverty Bay meeting just concluded. The two latter are owned by Mr. ,F. J. Irfsn'ar,. When Taringainutn finished in front of Gold Soult-on-• the opening-day-at Trentham, there was 111b. botween the pair. In the Riccarton Welter Handicap, run over a furlong shorter, the pair will meet on tho same terms. Matters in connection with the New Zealand Cup are now commencing to ,in'vc apace* and the decision of the mg event of next weok is becoming more discussed each day. Balboa, Merry Roe, Marc Antony, Snub, and Fiery Press have each got an armv of supporters, .and bo far it is difficult to say which horse will be the machine favourite. There seems to bo more support for Marc Antony than for any other individual runner, but on Great Autumn Handicap fcrm the to'n-wei?ht looks to have tlw beating of the black horse, for iir the Great Autumn Handicap Mr. Lowry s horso pressed Marc Antony very closely at the end of one mile and a half, and that when he was to all intents anrt purposes a broken-down horse that had done little or no work for a fortnight. Added to this, the top-weight now meets Marc Antony on 111b. better terms.

,T. H. Prosser is sending Memo Bala* horns to her owner's nlnce at Dannevirke for a. spell. Mcrrie Bale is a .four-ycar-old half-sister to Crotoiurst, but she Uni shown verv. Itttlo form with the colours up, and has generally been troubled with lameness in the knees.

' Briar Patch and Spangle, -who accompanied Bee to Sydney, were returned to Kiccarton' last week. Spangle won a small rate on the other side, hut Briar Pntch was not herself over there, and failod to shown any'form.

Hopfield (Malster-Circe), who was recently purchased in Sydney, by J.. L. Thorpe, of Ellerslie, has. an excna.cs« remarks, often been lame m the past, but it has not interfered' with his trainIn?. Hopfield is ongaged in the Flyiriq Handicap at EHerslio next week, with list. 121b., and is conceding; 111b. to his nearest opponent. A Sydnev writer soys:—"l notice that at the recent "Wellington (N.Zj R.C. annual meeting cf members, Mr. Harcourt suggested that tho clubs should provide colours for the nsa of owners, and that each number in the raceboolc shcaild have certain colours attached to it. .That is to say. No. 1 should invariably carry black: No. 2, blue; No. 3, red; and so on. The idea is not a new one, and was given a fair trial at Sydney unregistered meetings a few years ago. It did not catch on, cither with owners or public, tho former tiring of seeing their horses notearrvingthe same colours twice in an afternoon, and the public preferring to identify certain sets of colours with particular stables, Furthermore, most owners evince pride in their colours, and it would hurt thoso to often have to wait tho printing of a Tacebook. to ascertain whether their • representatives would be carrying pink, blue,'yellow, or something else tho following day."

W. Bell will have tho mount cm Varnish in the C.J.C. Stewards' Handicap. In the same race C. Emerson will have the mount on Koesiau. who will represent tho Yaklhurst Stables.