NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3090, 22 May 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

JBl Glxncoi.l / The acceptances received for the Otaki meeting are very largo, and the meeting promises to be one of the most successful yet held by the club. There will certainly be no dearth of horses there..

The Winter Meeting of the Wauganui Jockoy Club will be.held on Thursday and Saturday of this week. The Connolly Handicap, Wanganui Steeplechase, and Century Hurdles are all run) on the opening day. Those who have seen Nita schooling at Wanganui havo a good word for the chestnut maro, who is stated to be looking more robust now than over before. The race she had at the Egmont meeting lias sharpened her up, and she is expected to be one of the favourites for the Wanganui Steeples on Thursday. .It is stated thiit Good Hope went wrong- after the Awapnni meeting, and is not likoly to bo seen out at the Otakt fixture, though Brambletye will i be there. Tho Rajah of Pudukota, who is getting a big team together at Eandwick, lias been winning his sharo of races lately, recently his horse won the Hurdles at Moorefiold, and now cornea word that Burradoo, a cast-off of Mr. E. J. Watfs, whom tho Rajah purchased, has scored in a welter handicap at Canterbury Park. Amongst the unplaced division in tho Nnrsery Handicap at the Moorefield meeting on May 12 was Bezant (Bozonian —Snowehcll), Tho Waikanae-bred youngster, who cost 75flgns. as a yearling, has so far failed to win a race. Tho Martagon. horse Quinn's Post, who is owned by tho ex-New Zcalander Peter Keith, wun tho I'lying Handicap at tlio Canterbury PaTk meeting on May 12. He started favourite, und, ridden by an apprentice/ lie defeated a big field in smart time. C. Emerson went up for medical examination at Christchurch yesterday, but he failed to come up to the required standard, and was accepted for home service only. Emerson will be on Kilkee, Killard,, and Kilmeedy at Oamaru on Thursday.

After her poor showing at tho Manawatu meeting, Mr. H. G. Taylor decided (hat it was no use sending J3eo to WaDganui. Tho Martian mare and her companions, iJuland, Spangle, and Matty, havo boon left at Awapuni, and if the goine ia good they will be raced at the Otaki mooting next week. Th* report that Styrax wanted to stop while schooling at Wangauui coinee as a surprise, as ho bas .been jumping in a very satisfactory manner at Hawora, and only last week his trainer, J. Brown, spoke highly of his jumping ability. Of course, a double may havo been strango to tho old chestnut, and ho can be deponded to do a. lot better iii a field. At the Egmont meeting he showed a lot of pneo on tho flat. Korero, a full-sister to 'i'arcro, is in work at Wanganui. She is a. fine jumper, and will have plonty of friends in the hack steeplechases at tho coming meetings. Cora Ora, a eUble-companion of Golden Graitoue, has been accepted for several times lately, but has not faced the starter. She is expected to be scon under silk at tho coming Wanganui meeting.

After her form at tho Egmont meet ing, Golden Graf ton was expected to race prominently in the' Autumn Handicap at the Awapuni meeting, but the Now Plymouth mate did not get a good passage. She may do hotter in the Connolly Handicap at Wanganui.