NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3121, 27 June 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

IBt Glencob.l

_ A- final reminder is given owners who intend raoing at Hastings this week that acceptances for the first day's handicaps close to-night at 8 o'clock. Entries for all events at tho Winter Meeting of tho Wellington Barfng Olub must be in tho han,ds of Secretary Whyte by 9 p.m. on Friday. The Winter Meeting of tho Hawke's Bav .Tonkey Olub will bo hold on Friday anil Saturday. Thsro ia a good sportinp programme on each day. aaid all events aro run over a. distance of ground. Diavolo, Kohinahina, Atuatoro, Zain, and Black Heart are all engagod in d.wo ovonts on ihe opening day of tho Hast ings Meeting. Sleight of Hand, who is engaged in tho Hawko'a Bay Hurdles, may be allowed in drop out of that raee and contest ihe Bracelet,, run on the same day. , It is not considered likely that there will, ho many acceptors ih tho Hawko'n Bay Hurdles. Owners do not consider it a, wise policy to race their horses over ouoh a lengthy course for a, small sta-ke when there are muoh moro valuable priica to l» raced for in a few weeks' time. Multioipal and Splendid™ wero railed home from Napier to Mastcrton yesterday. They are backward in condition, so their trainer decided not to race thorn at Hast ings. It wan rumoured at Napier last, week that Basanof, 6wcet Corn, and Shrill will shortly be shipped to Australia.. Whilo there lioy will bo undor the caro of ,}l. Hobba.. • Gold Painting was not eligiblo (o start at Napier owing'to the loaso not having been completed at tho time of nomination. For a similar reason she will bo unahlo to stai-t at Hastings this week. .Tackman gave a great exhibition of jumping on both days at Kapior. but the Foilding-trained horso has now lost his pace, and his prospects of paying his way this winter are none too good. R. J. Mason has not been long in opening his winning account in (Sydney, for on Saturday Immortelle credited Mr. Greenwood with the Maiden Juvenile Stakes at tho Rosohill Meeting. This marked tho first win for. tho son of Martian and Everlasting, and promisee well for his three-year-old engagements in Australia. Ho was bred by Mr. J. F. Buchanan, who disposed of him to Mr. Greenwood as a yearling at 260gns. When trained at Riccarton last spring Immortelle gave a lot of promise, hut was only started in ono race, failing to get a place. A yearling Ally owned by Mr. J. B. Beid has arrived at Ricoarton and will ho included in M. Hobbs's team when he loaves for Australia. Tho youngster, who is engaged in the Gimcrack Stakei In Sydney, and tho Maribyrnon? Plato in Melbourne, is by Kilbroney—Rosyth, by Charlemagne ll—Ailsa. Kilboy and his brother, Kill 'Em. were restricted to easy pacing on Monday ana they aro both causing M. Hobbs somo anxiety at present. It is thought that .Kilbora soreness may work off, as ho has frequently been troubled in a similar way on eaing into commission after a

rest. 11a case of Kill 'Em. however, may be mora serious, and it may bo .found advisable to cancel tho Australian trip so far as ho is concerned.

Thn annual meeting of l.ho Country Oluhn' Association will bo held in thn Town Hall. Wellington, on .Inly 1(1, a I V..SH p.m. Tho principal business to ho discuseed in tiio reduction nf raring as it afl'ccl.B Ihe country clubs. It. is reported from Australia, that the imported, horso Oyklon, by Spearmint,, has hoen retired, from tho turf and noes to Iho stud. Tho .grandson of Carbine was ono of the. Austrian horses seized by tho British Government, at tho commencement, of tko war and sold. He who being raced, in England at tho time. Multioipal wan taken homo after tho Napier Park Meeting, and will not bo a competitor at, the, Hawko's Bay Meeting. ' Grecian Maid, the dam of Montana, la to bo mated with Kilbvonoy in tho coming season, Botanist, who has had a lengthy and varied career on the flat, is shortly to be given a trial OYcr tho sticks. The stewards of the Masterton Racing Club will hold a, meeting to-da,y to consider the question of which day shall be abandoned, to meet the new position agreed upon by the District Committee. The general opinion ia that a, two-daya' spring meeting, and tho abandonment of tho autumn meeting, wonld bo moat'iac--: ccpfablo In ownerß of horses-