NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 95, 15 January 1918, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fur GLENCOE.I A reminder is giveii those concerned that acceptances for the Foxlon Meeting, to be held on January. 22, must reach Seorctary E. Wanklyn by 9 o'*ock tonight. : : Accoptanceß for the Paliiatua MeetinE are duo on Monday next. " The Annual Meeting of the Wdroa liacing Club will be opened to-day, and will be concluded on Thursday. Nominations for' tho Bsmont Uacing Club's Autumn Meeting close on' January 18 with Sec. V. B. Stratton.

The Wairarana Cup will this year be worth 650 eovs.

B. Deelcy will arrive from Auckland to-day. He has been engaged to ride Bed Eibbon and Wrestler in tho Wellington Cup <ind Telegraph Handicap respectively.

The Auntrnliiui-bred The Spanner was given a liiht doso of physic aftor racing ut Ellerslie. His next appearance will be al the Taknpuna Mcctiiiß. Iho Spanner ia still a maiden, but ho is rci;ardpd as ono of tho best youngsters in the north, and inferior only to Informal.

None of Mr. 13. W. Alison's horces aro to ra.ee at Trcntliam. This was only to be expected, as their home meeting takes plfK'o a fow days after Trenthfun. Another defection from the Wellington Meeting was the Irish-bred Cynic. He, too, is being kept in reserve for the Takapuna gathering.

llr. T. H. Lowry's Kilhope Rreatly reBcmbloa Multiform in appearance, and in addition he is n bit straight in front like tho majority of the Hotchkiss breed. His dam Angele, who is a member of the Waikanae stud, comes from the name family as Mnltiform.

Late last week Jtr. Inn Duncan received word that his brood mare Nonos had died at the Eldorslie stud. Tho lose of the Martian mare is a very sevoro one, as she promised to be invaluable as a- matron. It is often remarked nowadays that liad Desert Gold no> tjfen continually bumping up against Nones tho latter would have been proclaimed a great filly. There is something in this contention, and when in It, J? Mason's stables tho mare in question was as muoh superior to tho othor three-year-olds as Desert Gold was to her. ■ ' " Tho first meeting between Hyinestra and Kstland this seaeon will probably bo in the Wanganui Guineas, which is run on the second day of tho Wanganui Summer Meeting on February W. A meeting of tho pair over a mile would be one of the bi<r attractions ol the gathering. Restful the two-year-old member of J. H. Prosser's tenm at present ;it Trentham, is owned in Blenheim. Tho youngster is a, half-sister to Ohakwana, and she ereat]y rosembleß the totter. Gold Helmet another stranger in tho Porirua team, is a full-brother to Gold Boult, but if anything he js bigger than the latter was at the pome age. Blighty is a three-year-old Kilbroney-Armella filly, owned by a popular Wellington sportoman, who is now at the frout. Stirrup Cup. Rockualt. and Talitha all carry the well-known colours of Mr. H. Acton Adams. _ Running out at Waikanae is ,a very Btylish-lookinu yearling, by Bezoman from the Birkenhcad mare Satisfair. Tho youngster, who is owned by a southern sportsman,, is shortly .to be broken in, and will then go into a Riccarton stable. The Waikanae raarw Angele and Success the dams of Killowen and Kllhopo resnectiveli-. have this season, been mated with the imposed Holfcrino. Vcceptancca for all events at tho Wellington Trotting Club's M*«tinsd«e mth Mr K W. Short, secretary, l'etone, at 1 O 'Tt"nToin, horses, Imrlbbon and Rcbekah, arrived here on Saturday night. Their trainer, Mr. Alf. Bore, will he on the Pateena. which arrives this evening An acceptance of fourteen in the Wellington Cup is satisfactory Tho l i ayme ! , ' for Chortle wn.s unexpected, but.it looks as if the Mnltiftd gelding has quickly got over his soreness, and his presence in the race will lend additional interest to the The' Marton Cup winner. Municipal. lip<f been paid up for in the Anniversary Welter Handicap and the Wellington Cun, both run on the owning day, but it is generally understood that he will start in the Cup.