NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3096, 29 May 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

!Bt Glenoob.l The Winter Meeting of tho Auckland Racing Club will open at Ellerslie ou Saturday next, when tbo Greßt. Northern Hurdles and Cornwall Handicap will bo run. The club has- beon advised that there will bo no special trains run to Ellerslio on either day. Excellent acceptance. , ) havo been received for tho Otaki meeting, which will bo held on Monday and Tuesday of next week. The fields will be the largest in tho history of the club, and a good class of horses will be competing. Members of the Marton Jockey Club havo sent a cablegram congratulating one of their number, in. Colonel Meldrum, on his elevation to tho jjost of Brigadier-General. Though ho was not produced at Wanganui, and has not had a raco over fences this year, bir Solo is one of the besl-fancied candidates for tho big hurdles to bo run. at EUerslie ou Saturday. From what can be gathered, there is every probability of Wainiai being takent across to Australia for tho V.R.C. National Meeting.

Chakwana is to go into retirement ou her return from the Wangonui mcetins. ami will not lie seen out again until tho spring. Shp will probably bo trained for middle-distance handicaps next year. Her stable companion, Johnny AValker, a dual winner at Wanganui, is also being sent into wintor quarters, and will bo ailoncd to forfeit his Otaki engagements. The stable will only have ono horso racing at tho meeting uamed. This is tho jumper Coalition, a full-brother to Patronymic. So far his form in very moderate, and ho Is' not likely to trouble the judgo tor eorno time.

J. W. Scott is keeping Rongora going, and the bay maro will race in tho Birthday Hack Wcltor Handicap .it Otaki. Other Tronthau) horses ongngod at the 6,-ime meeting aro Ormcsby, Prince Delaware, Rose- Pink, and Trickery. 'I'Re i'orirua etables will bo represented bjr Tango, Goldstream, Kurki, Portland Lady, and Kohe Kohc.

By ii. recent boat, Mr. W. E. Bidwill shipped three yearlings to Sydney, where they are to be offered for sale. Two of them aro by Provocation, and the other is by the imported Demosthenes.

C. Pritchard has received a couple of fldditions to his Trentham team in the shape of Thoughtful and a two-year-old colt by Advance from Listener.

t The six yearlings in-.H. A. Telford'.i Trentham stables are all doing plenty of Eteady work, and they should be leady' to spurt a couple of furlongn any day now. The name trainer has also got Street Singer and Probation going again, and they will probably bo raced at the Wellington meoting in July.

The question of getting the people out (o Trentham lor toe nest meeting is still exercising the inindß of tho Wellington Racing Club's committee. The latest idea is that the club should engage special train*, and guarantee the Railway Department against any loss. There is not likely to be any loss, as the Trentham rare trains must pay the Department handsomely. . '

A Provocation—Black Bess filly belonzine to a Wellington owuer has juit. been broken in by C. Pritchard, and is now a regular woiker at T-Tentham. The same trainer is also keeping tho Treadmill—lngleneuk 61iy going. She is owned by Mr. .loseph Ames, and will probably be given a run in the Trial Plato at tho July muoting.

At Trentham, Battle Song and Bonny Maid nro doing pottering work, and are evidently not inlendod to race during thri winter. .T. Ayors, however, is keeping Battlo Array up to the collar, and tho Sigiior gelding will raco at the Wellington Wintor Meeting.

Tlio Australian-bred Blairfiode went ou to Auckland yesterday, and will raco ill. Ellerslio on Saturday.