NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 8, 4 October 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Owners are reminded that. acceptances forthe Hasterton Meeting close to-morrow night. ' First payments for the New Zealand Cup are due to-morrow night. At the same time entries close for the principal handioaps to be run at the C.J.C. Meeting. Entries for the Poverty Bay Turf Club's Meeting close to-morrow night -with Secretary E. D. de Costa. - Entries for the Auckland Cup a~d tie Srincipal races at the Auckland Earing lub's Summer Meeting close to-morrow night. • - ■ ' - Handicaps for the Wellington Meeting are due on Monday, and acceptances eloso cuo .week later. , . The Kilbroney filly. Kilflinn, has be»n a disappointment in her Australian engagements up to the present. Last au'umn. after defeating Desert Gold ij? the rioith Island Challenge Stakes at Tremham, she was-Bold for a big figure to th& Eajr.h of Pudukota. The ground wae heavy when she beat Desert Gold, and it bars as.if Kilflinn had acquired a* false reputation, based on that performance. After doing a gallop' at .Invercargill on Thursday, Redshire was decidedly lame. Evidently the happening did not disturb the gelding's trainer, who remarked that the speedy 6printer had now been lame all round with tie exception of the tail. The Martian filly, Nanna, who will represent Mr. Dalgety in the Oaks Slakes, will probably be eiven a race at the Korth Canterbury and Oxford Jookey Club's Meeting on October 22. Her stable companions, Snub and AVardancer, may also be engaged at the Eangiora fixture. The Kurow Meeting will be beld on the Oamaru Racecourse to-day. Amongst the visitors to Wellington is Mr. W. H. Hartgill, the well-known judge. Ho is returning to Dannevirke to-day. , Ch'akwana is to be shipped south to-night on- a. visit to the imported Sunny Lake. At the Waikanae Stud Sequin has foaled a colt to the imported Absurd.' This year she visits Boniformi Her daughter Sequinnette slipped her foal to Absurd, and is again beiug mated\with the Sundridge noree. Jockey W. Bell went south on Tuesday, and will be riding at the Kurow Meeting today. One of his mounts will be John Barleycorn in the Welter Handicap. It is said that it was S. Waddell's intention to race hie Wellesley Stakes candidates at the Masterton Meeting, but un- • fortunately he overlooked the date of the closing of nominations. The youngsters will now «e without a race heforo the Wellington Meeting. Mr. Q. L. Stead recently cancelled all his nominations for the C.J.C. Meeting. This may be taken to mean that the Y&ldhurst team is to go on to Caulfleld and Flemington at the , conclusion'of the racing at Eandwick. The victory of Biplane in the. Craven Plate yesterday, has established his claim to bo regarded as a first-class three-year-old. In addition to conquering , the torses of his own ago he has nojy defeated the older horses, which makes him out to be a. good ouo. ■ ' '