THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 12, 9 October 1917, Page 9

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS IBY GLENCOE.I Nominations for all handicap events at tho Avondale Meeting closo with Secretary H. H. Hayr on Friday next. Acceptances for the Wellington Meeting close on Monday next at 9 p.m. Weights for the Waverlcy Meeting an due to-morrow. Acceptances closo on Monday next at 8 p.m. The • Mnsterton Racing Club's Spring Meeting will be. held on Thursday and Friday. Local patrons would do well to note that tho mail truin will not,, as at former meetings, slo.p at Opaki. Tho Dunedin Meeting takes place oil Friday and Saturday. The top-weight in the Hurdles is Nauuata, who is not meeting a very stroiiK held. The Mahaki geld-,. Ing ran well enough at Ashburton last month to suggest that he is coming' back to form. The fact that Linscric has been nominated for the Stewards' Handicap at liiccarton and thu Eailway Haudicap at Auckland, would point to the Fiijland three-year-old filly going on the right way in her work at Jlarton. She will have her first race this season in . the Dash Hack Handicap, live furlongs, at Masterton on Thursday. Though Devotion was allowed to drop out of the New Zealand Oup, H. Telford line entered the C.J.O. Oaks winner for the. Auckland Cup, She, Miss do Tal, and J. VV. Lowe's charges are the only local horses eugaged in the Ellerslie event. The oue disappointment in connection with the nominations for the A.lt.C. Hummer Meeting is the absence of Biplane from the list lor the Islington Plate. After his brilliant cflorts at the A.JAJ. Spring Meeting racegoers were kebjili r l6osttn£ roj; ward to his meetim-' witn Jjes'ert Goto.over tho Ellerslie mile whiah.naniieuiu- wouiu have provided iiitrjisg.jntiux'i_--UirQ.ui;ho_t. the Dominion. Biplane is, nowever, engaged in tho Royal Stakes, which is rim on the same day as the Islington Plate, in which he will be called on to meet tha Pick of the two-year-olds, "an- nils" evideutly caused his alißencc from" the" Isltngton Plate. In other years' MrT Greenwood's colt would have been able to race in both events, but the cutting out of a day has prevented this, so that racegoers have something to temember the National Government by. 0. Emerson, who has been riding at tho Randwick Meeting, is returning home by the first available boat, and hopes to bo in time to ride at tho Trentham Meeting. The locally-owned Menelaus, Mascot, , Johnny Walker, and Seadown have been nominated for the Auckland Cup.. Sasanof is a conspicuous absentee front the Auckland Oup entries. H. O'Donnell has entered Tho Toft and Bed Hock. The • latter is a maiden performer. The. Auckland-trained Oardrona audi Princesß Bee have arrived at Masterton. and will race there this week. They am to be ridden by H. Goldfinch. The New Plymouth trainer J. George is; seriously ill at present. His horses are now being trained by R. Johnson. Mr. R. A. M'Kenzie's brood mare Armada has foaled a colt to All Black and is to visit Sarto. It is stated that the Rajah of Pudukota gave lOCOgns. for Kilfoylo. runner-up in tho Gimcrack Stakes at Randwick. Arrowfleld, who is engaged in the Masterton Hack Handicap, one mile, on Thursday, is anionjst those entered for tho Stewards' Handicap and tho Stead Gold Oup. Arrowfleld is a three-year-old by Gardiual Beaufort, and was purchased aa a yearling at the Sydney salc3 by his present owner Mr. W. Duncan. The total invented on tho totalisator at the Randwick Meeting was £93,015.—Press Assn. Thirteen new momhers wore elected at a, meeting of stewards of the Masterton Racing Club on Saturday last.