NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 17, 15 October 1918, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fBS.' GLENCOE. - . Entries for tho Auckland Kacing Club's Spring .Meeting clones on Friday next. Nominations for tho minor events at the 0.J.0. Spring Meeting are duo on Friday. Owners should not overlook the closing of acceptances for the ilrst day s handicaps at the coming Wellington Meeting, 'lhese ore due at, 9 p.m.. on Friday A foifeit [or.the ,Champion Plate is due at tne for the Wavcrley Meeting are-due on Wednesday,at 8 p.m. The imported Ethiopian, who finished third .in the Caulfleld Stakes, is ono of the favourites for the Oiip on faaturday. Jlis weight in that event is 7st, 111b., or 181b.' leas than he carried las week. Hβ is to be ridden by K. Bracken. The breakdown of St. Elmn, reported by cablegram from Sydney, wan not altogether unexpected, as the National winner has beon lame on and off all through the winter, and it was thought, that the hard'tracks at Bnndwick would be sure to find him out. His. incnpacitatiou was unfortunate for his owner, as tho St. Ambrose gelding looked like earning cxpensce <w the trip bad he kept sound. The two-year-olds SolfaneUo and Ohacronia, both of -whom arc to be raced at Opalii, prior to taking part in the Weilesley Stakes, were spurted three furlongs at Treiitham on Saturday, and'both moved pleasingly. The Demosthenes filly seems to be exceptionally smart at finding her feet, aiid she may bo the sUiblo representative on the day. _ ■ An unexpected nomination for the poverty Bay Meeting next week was that of the Watrarapa-owned Comment, and as tflo bay mare is not engaged at Trentham she will probably be sent to Guborne. The' Chbkebore trainer H. Outts will bring half a. dozen horses to the irentsam Meeting'. His team will consist of the M'Lcau Stakee winner Royal fetag, who < engaged in the Wellesley-Stakes, Strathglass; who will ho given a run in the two-year-old handicaps, Adjutaut, Lionskin, Wrestler, and Onslaught. The demand for boxes at Trentham next week in very heavy, <uid it looks as if ] the fields on tho opening day of the Wellington Meeting will ho very large. Already trainers are finding difficulty m providing boxes for all who ask for them. It is expected that Gloaming will bo sent out to Trentham to-day, and will remnin there for the Champion Plate. Later or ho will be joined by Afterglow and Elous! whom P. Mason has bceu working at Riccarton. ' , . .. . , The report whioh appeared in tnis column on Friday stating that Mr. Ernest Short had So.mino is incorrect. As a matter of fact the Fcilaing sportsman hM only just purchased he four-year-old Bignor gelding for a Mg "Very good acceptances have beon receivrd for the Jlastertoh Baring Club's Spring Meeting, .which takes ptaon Thursday and Friday of-this week. Tho acceptors for the Masterlon Cup include Client, Yolo, Depredation, Snub, Mascot, Mangiunahoc, Battle Song, and Bronk Delhval, each of whom also figure in tho New Zealand Cup. Devotion, another Mecarton entrant, has been allowed to drop out of the Maaterton Cup, but has been paid up for in the Opaki Welter Handicap, A fresh'arrival in J.'M'lrfnißhlin'eatanloß at Trentham is Happy Moments, a two. year-old filly by the imported Merry Molt Gray's four i>!ns at Wingatui on Satvrday brought his total for the season up to nine, aud places him ai tho top of tho list. . , . The influenza epidemic, which is so prevalent in Ohriatchurch at present, is causing sci-ious inconvenience at some of tho training establishments at Eiccarton, tho trouble having spread among the trainers and their stablo hands. The Eng'.ish-bred mare Love Token has finished -her- racing career, and will form oj'O of Knrlo's consorts this B?ason. I? J. Mason, trainer of Biplane, returned from Australia by the Manuka yesterday. Bon. Dceley and K. O'Donncll arrived back from Australia. by the Manuka yesterdav. Rfnaming, Almoner, nnd Kilmoon. candidates at' the recent li-muhvirk Meeting, were brought back to New Zealand by the Manuka yesterday. The horses arrived in good fettle. • A Press Association Melbourne states that there arb sixteen acceptors for the Caulfiold Cup. including Rael Locin. King Offa, and Wolaroi. Poitrel and Silent Way have bcei< scratched for tho Melbourne Cup.