NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3043, 2 April 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

IBi Glencoe.l Special. trains will run to Featherston on both "days of the Wairarapa Meeting. Those interested will find the times oi departure in our advertising columns. In connection with the Feiiding Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting, which opens or Easter Monday, ti special tram has beer arranged for,, which will allow "Welling- ' ' ton patrons to make the return journey in the day. The train will ioave Larobton Station at 7.10" a.m., and will leave Feilding on its return at 4.50 p.m. . Owners are reminded by an advertisement in tliis issue that entries far the Manawatu Racing Club's. Autumn Meeting close on Wednesday night at- 9.30. The secretary's address is Box 52, Palmerston North. On Tuesday, April 10, at Stables, Christchurch, Messrs. Pyne and Co. will sell the Warrington Stud thoroughbred mares. The list comprises several well-bred matrons, all of whom havt been stinted to the imported Sarto. , Several yearlings and brood mares are to be sold at Feilding on Easter Tuesday. • Mr. Donald Fraser is offering a full-brother to Ararat, and several other youngsters. ,Mr. Lan Duncan is sending ; the brood.: mares Lady Helen, Falling St'ari Sister Francis, and Kilvrinnett, , and Dr. Herbert is selling a yearling filly by Provocation from Blaolc Bess. -The Highden 6tud offers a yearling by : Advance from Neirene, by Martian, and Mr. Duncan Fraser is also offering several lota. . Entries for the Winter Meeting of the Egmont Racing {Club elope on April 16 ,at 9 p.m. The programme will bo found ' in this issue.' ,;The Karamu ontriec for tho Wellington Racing CiuVe Meeting arrived too 'late,.eo for the first time for many yoaw there will be no horsea c-an'ying tho Hon. J. 1). Orniond V. colours at Trenthatu this baontlr. • . 1 1 _ .Toclcsys Deeley, Younf, iin<! R. Manson Kr.ra alfeody i a —!r«i at Riccarton to fiiifil' er-eagemonta lat next week's I gktlKjrinj. ' The trie weru on the tracks i riding work, on Saturday; Deeley -will be ,;ip or. Sassnof and Ki!bo». Young will ride J.tultifual, and Jfanson will bo on dazique and Arthur George. . There will be the 1 usual dearth •of jockeys at the 'Easter Meetings, and 'Several owners are findinsr it a trouble to Becure horsemen at Riccarton. One of these is Mr. H. G. Taylor, owner of Bee and Zuland. • ■Tockeys A. Oliver; S. Reid, R. Hatch. W. Price, R. Reed, and E. Manpon.wfll be riding at the Wairarapa Meeting on Saturday and Monday, and will then motor to Feilding for the second day's races' there. ' . R. O'Donnell, with the Yaldhura) team, and .Toclceys C. Emerson, A. Reed, and R. M'Seveney,- went to Auckland by last night's express. The disappointing Hyraenaeus was re- , -turned to nis owner , tho day after , the Napier Park Meeting. G. Jones will in : future., it-is understood, train solely for Messrs. W. G. Stead and H. E. Trout.beck. '-Mp.- P. P. residence and training ptables Jiave been secured, a batch ef fenr rising two-year-olds have ■been 66nt oyer, tu .ba put through tho rudiments of their Rducati'tn, It is *Uted that nftsr the Easter Meetings sonw ox Mr. Rtesd/s horses at at 'Siccartoa will go into Joaes'e wttble.' Tots will remain in the same for a hw weeks, but Rodenham hao already been returned to his owner. ''-. .