NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3000, 10 February 1917, Page 15

NOTES AND COMMENTS

IBt Glhncoe.l Nominations for tho annual meeting of the Nelson Jockey : Club close on Monday.next with Secretary J. Glen.. Entries for the Dannevirko Meeting close to-night. Very satisfactory acceptances have been received for the Woodville Meeting, which-. takes place on Wednesday and Thursday. next. Tho top-weights in the Woodville Cup and Tolephone Handicap have been allowed to drop out, but in both races.- there is still the material for- good contests. The other races have filled well. It is stated that Bee is to be sent south for the Dunedin Cup Meeting, and if this is so she is not likely to be seen at Wanganui the following -week. The Martian mare has an engagement in the Hazlett Plate, a woight-for-ago event, on tho second day of the Wingatui fixture, and as she has, escaped a penalty sho will only iha'vo to carry Bst. which is considerably loss than -would bo her poundage -were the event a handicap. . ~ _ T , A noticeablo defection from the u oodville acceptances is Miss De Val. This means that she will be sent to Dunedin for next week's meeting. Handicapper Morse has evidently got a very high opinion of Bunting when ho sets the Wellington Cup winner to concede ColonoL Soult a pound m the Wanganui Cup. At the first blush the latter appeals to bo remarkably well treated, and ho has been-given a great chance to win the Wanganui Cup for tho second year in succession. Last year tho Ellerslie horse scored with Bst. 71b„ and since then he has annexed tho Awndale Cup, of 600 sova.,'with Bst. Xllbon his back, and tho King Edward Me--morial Handicap,' o£ 1000 aovs., at £1-.. lerslie, with .to same woight, whuo -he dead-heated with Wishful in tho Grandstand Handicap, 1000 eovs., at Ellerslie, on January 2, with Bst. 51b. on hi 9 back. On that occasion he gave Egypt 71b. ana. a two-lengths' beating, and though he has not met the Egrnont Cup winner, since, the latter, has now got- to. meet the Aucklander on level terms. Tho Australian Cup winner, Ch er J?" bini, at one time owned by Mr. G. u. Greenwood, tjbb a bad last in Woe foundation Day Cup at- the recent Williamstown Meeting. ' ■ . \ , J, Olfien was tho * most successful Ihorseman ■ at • the Marlborough. Meeting, where he rode six winners. His. total for the season is now 37, which is 10 •behind Emerson, who is seven m advance of J. O'Shea. Golden' King, who is in the same stable as Eorke's Drift, will bo ridden tix the Dunedin Cup by J. Olsen. It may be mentioned that the crack Dunedin jockey refused four other rides in the race to take tho mount on P. Hogan's horse.- ' . ' Mr. A. W. Rutherford, junr., who had a good innings at the Marlborough Meeting with Samiscn and Furling, motored through to Christchurch. at the close of the Eiverlands gathering. Samisen wll be seen out at the - Dunedin Meeting on tho second and third days. It ia reported that the Marlborough Racing Club will lose money over this week's fixture, and that there is a probability of the club abandoning one of its meetings and trying the experiment of having only one meeting; and that a two-days' one," during tho season. Form Up is much better ..treated in tho Flying Handicap at Wanganui than he is in the Telephone Handicap at Woodville. At the latter meeting ho is conceding Interlude 51b., but at Wanganui the Bezonian mare is meeting hjyi on 71b. worse terms. The Waiiganfci-traiTied Grey Guard, who ran surprisingly well in the Hack Hurdles on the opening day at New Plymouth, .is engaged in a similar event at Woodvillo next week : with only lib. above the minimum. Usually Maiden Plates are for horses wlio aro actually maiden performers' at the time of entry, or on the day of the race. Agnestes, a dual winner at Taka-.-puna in the spring, figures amongst tho 1 entries for the Maiden at Woodville, for whioh no conditions aro miblished.