NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3098, 31 May 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

IBr Glencob.l Thero will be racing at Ellerslie and Wingatui. on Saturday nest, and at the same places and Otaki on Monday. Nominations for tho Napier Park Wintor Meeting aro due on Friday next, and for tho Hawko'a Bay Jockey Club's Meeting ono week later. Tho programmo for the Winter Meeting of tho Wellington Racing Club will be finally passed by tlio committco next week. When Morecambo foil while schooling at Pillerslio on Tuesday, it was the first occasion' that he had mado a mistake, either in private or public. No news is to hand as to whether the Birkenhead gelding was injured by his fall.. Brneburn, who scored in the Gisborne Steeplechase last year, hnn been entered in this year's contest and will probably bo sent there by boat from Auckland at tho conclusion of tho Ellerslio Meeting. Diavolo will olso do tho snmo trip. Johnny Walker, tho dual winner at Wanganui, only cost his present owners SOgns. whon sold as a yearling. The. reason that tho Martian gelding did not fake on with buyers was that ho was badly scarred behind, and had evidently been in a wiro fence. However, J. lowc examined him and decided that tho tendon was uninjured. . Tho gelding was token homo and turned out for 12 months, and now ho looks like shaping into a first-clnss handicap horse. After his poor showing at Wanganui it, was not oxnected that Jackman would bo sent to Dunedin, and the steeplechases at Winsatni will now be contested by South Island horses only. Something like a bombshoU fell in (•porting circles yesterday when tho Hallway Department cave it out that the mail trains to New Plymouth and Napier would not stop at Otaki, cither going or coming on Monday or Tuesday next The matter is to bo tho subject nf a deputation from the club to thb Ministor in chargo of tho Railways. Gang Awa' has been reha.ndicappcd for tho . Raukawa Cup. and his impost in now Bst. Illb. It is understood that Jlr. 1?. 8. Ensfon's horse will be present at tho meeting. In addition to Cherry Blossom. Trainer A. Shearsby has also leased tho jumper Sleight-of-H»nd from Mr. F. Armstrong, and tho Mystification gelding will rnco in his interests during tho jumping season. Should the batch of yearlings at present being put through the ru.dimonts of thoir education by R. O'Donnoll turn out vol I, the best of them may bo sent across to Sydney for tho A.J.C. Sjjring Meeting. Ono of them, a full-brother to The Monk, who met his end at Trentham. last year, is stated to be a very promising colt.

A striking example of the severe manner in whioh owners and clubs are taxed nowadays is afforded by the recent j?orbtiry Park.Trotting Club's meetin?. At (hat fixture .£2200 wan givon in stake money, and the various taxes amounted (o MU3O.

Owners and trainer? are reminded that nominations for the Napier Park Club's Winter Meeting close with Iho secretory on Friday at; 8 p.m.