NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3041, 30 March 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

IBt Glincob.l Entries for all events at the forthcoming Wellington meeting must be in tho i hands of Secretary. A. E. Wbyte by 9 | o'clock to-night. At the same hour first forfeits for. the N.Z.St. Leger, and second forfeits for the Challenge Stakes, aro due. Entries for the various handicaps at Manawatu Racing Club's Autumn Moeting close on Wednesday next. ■ Nominations for the Avondalq meeting close to-night. 1 Acceptances for the Wairarana meeting close to-night. ■Weights for the minor events at the Canterbury meeting are due to-dav. and acceptances close on Wednesday nexf. Final payments for the Easter Handicap, Great Northern Champagne, Northern Oaks, and Great Northern St Leger, together with acoeptanoes for tho minor events to be decided on tho opening day of tho A.R.C. Autumn Meeting close with the secretary (Mr. J. F. Hartland)' to-night, at 9 o'clock. Acceptances for tho Fcilding media" closo 10-morrow night. " A local owner was' desirous of securing the services of the capable lightweight, J. Conquest, for tho Easter meeting, but tho Aueklandor is remaining at Ellerslie, and will have tho mount on Housewife, ono of the favourite selections for the big'mile race.

Bjprneborg will bo Mr.. T. it. Lowry's sole representative at tho Auckland meeting. Tho three-year-old will start in tha Easter Handicap, on tho opening day, and will oppose Tho Toff in the St. Lcgcr on the second day. C. Sinclair will' steer him in the mile Tace, and L. H. Hewitt will bo in the saddle in the classic event. Mr. A. E. White, one of tho prominent owners in New South Wales,, is giving the stakes won by his horses to patriotic funds. ' A Manawatu writer montions -.that Kiingitero will not be a startor in tho Fcilding Cup. The Wellington-owned Tango is under orders to race at Tauherenikau next week, and she will probably be missing from the Feilding acceptances. Tha air was full of rumours yesterday that all was not well with Kilboy. Nothing definite, however, is, known on the matter. G, Jones is getting a big team together

at Groenmeadows. Bccently- it. hag been augmented by the arrival of four rising two-year-olds, the property of ATr..W. G. Stead.

J. Munn has sent Tino Atua and Hopcito homo to To Mahanga,' and next season they aro to; bo mated with the imported Mountain Knight. Their boxes ■hnvo been filled by a Demosthenes— Afangaroa colt, and u colt.