NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 7, 3 October 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

TBY GLENCOE.I ' The annual meeting of the WaverleyVaitotara- Hacihg Club will "be held on October 22 (Labour Day). The open events are thb' Brewer Handicap, of 180 eovs./six furlongs, and WayerleyAVaitofara. 'Cup, .of 300 apvs. onemile and'£ quarter. .There are-.also half-a dpzen'hack "races,- for which liberal" stake-money is •ofiered.' Owners and- trainers 'are reminded.that ntmlnations close to-night ft 8 o'clock with Mr. W. Jl'Farlane, 'secretary,''Waverley. Owners should note that acceptances for the Masterton Jiceting close on .Friday next. ■ ■:-'.■■■.< First acceptances for the New Zealand Cup close "on. Friday, and .entr:c; for-tho principal handicaps are due at tho Bttme time. -,-■-•- -- - 'For the. second year in succession the A.J.C. Derby has been won by a- >?w Zealand owner. .Vliaet year it will be iomoihbered;.that -Messrs. « Luttrell purchased Kilboy on.tte etc of tho race, and-had the satisfaction- of .winning the big prize at Eandwiclt. "The most gratifying feature of -Monday s racine at Kandwiclt was tie success of Mr. G. h. Stead's chestnut colt' Almoner ui ttte valuable Breeders' Plate: .The win of the colt would-be,all the more ■*? hU mvndr because he bred him. liy-JJoni-s/^r^s^«d his Eandwick euccees. " -•R'T Mason, who'trained Biplane, the winner of the A.J.O: Berby on Saturday, £, Z-ms the next fastest. - Uthouirh -Mr. G. D- Greemwod has, on i Derhy r c rl ,-ly -3S$? W ?-<"^ at the Autumn Meeting in 19U. • tr&^'th^e^SaS |S^n««l^K ID |eport3 from Hastings credit Hymestra with having wintered really well, and filled but a good deal. Hewill be seen out at the Wellington Spring Meeting, Where his winner Almoner, is now standing at the WaikanaVStud/and-his list-for the nrerecall that Bbniform won the first Bieett■t%- pi run in 1906.' On that ccasiqn he warned by the late G; G. Stead, for whom 3. J , . Mason trained.- . ;, Arrangements have bceni made to send Si dUed"by '"he wellrknpwn. Dimodm held^at will be seen but in the' Trial Plate, few! fo£ of BrShie; , who represented by a quarters."' ' Nominations for .the Auckland Cup, EailwiV:Handicap, Summer CunA.B.C. Hangf yl'tSS day. - - ' -•'.