NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 124, 12 February 1918, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fBY GI2XCOE.I The Eginout Meeting will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. A good ulase of horses is engaged in the ligwout dun, including Chortle, Wishful, Nobleman, aua I 'a i he Tnuual mooting of the Hamilton Kacing Club will bo held ou faaturday "lu'Te Kuiti ou Saturday H.. Gray rode °Entrie" IC lor the Danncvirke 'Meeting close to-morrow' at 9 p.m. •Mr T. 11. Lowry intended to leave for Australia by a recent boat, but, ct tic last minute he was detained, and hu win not now bo able to be present at the opening of the Caulilcld Meeting on bat"■fhe New' Zealand-owned Koprig was amongst the winners at the recent Abpendale Meeting. Since'being owned by il. T. H'Grath Hoprig has run two firsts and a second out of three starts. The Bo hadil gelding is now one of the tanned division for the Newmarket .Handicap. Prior to leaving liandwick for Melbourne P. Davis paid a special fee to gallop Desert Gold. The mare r»nB« furlongs'on the outside of the.track.in lmin 31se|;., which was the Ustest gallop of the morning. A few mornings before this, she set the touts t» king by running a record half mile. Snc w to conteet the St. George's Stakes on Saturday next, and the following *(i*end «Je will shoulder 9et. 131b. in the Ivturitj Stakes. Thia is the eanio weight a another New. Zcalander * Gladsome picvaileil with ae a flve-ycar-old in 1906. So far there is no definite pronouncement as to whether the champion, is to. start in the Newmarket Handicap, in which Ehei vculd not be Jurthor penalised for a vin at Oaulfield. W. K. M'Lachlan Has oeen riding her in her training work. Ifter paseing the post on Pla»l Lady in the Welter Handicap at the I-μ™™ Meetin- tie saddle slipped,, and A. P.ecd got a bad fall. He was unconscoiis for a time, but soon recovered. In tie next race Gold Shot got rid of J. Brady, nut the rider escaped injury- p /V*- 0^ 0 tn 8t * S^; the Meeting are due on Monday next. II Telford went south last night to see Devotion and Pronation race at. Wmgatui on ThurMlav and Saturday. Prior to having he received word that Devotion had a slight touch of kidney trouble. The well-known Auckland hor™.™ W K.ynn, formwly attached, to J. w. Lowes tables at Trentham. has been re-exaimn-ed by the Medical Board and classed C . Mpnrlnits ie eoinc on the right way in hifwo'l at Trentham, and he h. regardotl as a" snre starter in the Wanganm °Tho following note van penned by a writer in the Svdnev "Sun" on Tuesday as V-Modern turf commons are eapabie t&msa of ß[ptnc°;trf V. raise v "olock-emasl-er" any n.orning of thv; Balked fart and nfton in tlipir nrcparations tor pig tveiiw. not nnt of n nnnf".