NOTES AND.COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 123, 18 February 1919, Page 7

NOTES AND.COMMENTS

■ [By . Glbncoe.] " "Owners should note that acceptances fqr tho-Dannevirke Meeting, .close on Wednesday' next at 8 p.m. Several buyers havo been nfter jNystad during the past week, and it is. likely .that the.duai Great Easter .winner will; changu, hands ,at any v tiine. ■-, ■'• The Wangnmii Jockey Club, will hold, its autumn meeting on Thursday and Saturday of- this week, and the Wanganui Trotting Club will race on Friday and.the following Monday. .. , ' •'.-jT. W.'Lowe, with Menelaus and Cooing, left for Wnngamii yesterday. The. former will represent the : stable in', the Cup, fa , ' which "his chance is-highly as-, seized'. ■■•.■.-- ■ . ' Mr: H. Whitney's pair, Rase Pink and- Trentham Rose, are to raco at tlie Oaiuaru Meeting on Thursday and Friday'of "this week. ■" ■ .Trainer A. Ciitts, who has been laid aside .with a second bout, of influenza, has sufficiently recovered to hi able to reiunie operations at Riccarton. It is statwl that Desert Gold is an un. ;likely starter in the Jackson Stakes at' Wnngiinui on Thursday. At.Hnwera' last week . the racehorses Army'. Service and /etes were sold for 12 and 10 guineas.respectively.. -~•.. After his fall in the Egmont Stakes, a. veterinary- surgeon .onmined Croesus, and-found that the ialf-brother to-Desert Gold had broken a blood vessel. ■ , The Trenthnm traiiinr, IT. Tclford, lias engaged 80-Peep, I'hilomela, and Active iii the , Hamilton Cup* to be run on March 1. MulticipaL Teka, Athens 11, and Rude are also entered for the event i named. !: There is every probabilitv of Kilmoon •being sent to Aiiskland at Easter to contest the Great' Northern St. Leger. If the trip is undertaken, R.- Hatch, \vill have the mount on Mr. Stead's representative. It is expected that the lighter scale of weights-in the Wanganui Cup will suit Rewi Poto, and the black gelding will be ono of- the favourites for Thursday's race. • ■. • ■ - . The. St. Le?er winner, Eligible, wTio lias l)een .off the scene for. a considerable time.• figures-amongst, the. nominations for the Napier Park Cup. .- White Ranger's, win nt Hawera-on Friday was his first for two years. It 1s that he changed hands.for 129 guineas, just before the race.

George Price, the well-known trainer, who hns been- on hospital ship duty for some time past,- icceived his : -discharge on Thursday, and will resume his duties at-Highden at an early date.

It is not often that Rorke's Drift is. -ill.'-fror 1, . six fitSonsrs from the winning post. This was precisely his position in the Dunedin Cuj, but lie had to be .shale-. en up to stall ntf Glen.lnwer and Punka. Marsii met with a mishap early, in the TJunedin Cup that quite [settled her chance. It-was found tlint hor slide was injured, and that her riiler-(Cottnn) was suffering from-a-crushed-foot.-

.The trainer Charley Page, 'on his return to' America from Russia,-gives a lurid account of life there under tlie Bolshevist regime. The-price of foodstuffs -i,s unbelievable, chickens making ■£5 each, and the commonest of milch cows' .£SOO each. The splendid trotting track at Petroijrad has rot been destroyed; but all tlie trotters stabled there , have been confiscated. The great stallion Willy., record 2.0.1, was sold for. 305., likewise. General IT, 2.013, and other famous

.American stallions ami marcs. I Mrs. Telegin, mis of the principal breeders and .racing owners in P,u=sia, saved her valuable stud by joining the parly of (lie people. AVill Cnton. who is -ilic.mo.st successful American trainer of trotters in Russia, wns able tp-cet his ..horses away to Siberia, whore conditions are nearer normal, and , racing has been .carried out at pmslc. under tho old Government regulations.

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOUR UNION

The monthly mooting of the Wellington Christian Endeavour Union was held in the Vivian Street Baptist Church on Friday, February 14/. There, wns « good attendance of delegates: The chief ■mis'ini'ss of-tho evening was the nomination of officers for 1019 and Hid arrangements for the coming convention. The following officers were elected for the coming year: President, fiev. -Br. Pinfold (re-olccH); vice-presidents, Mr. L. .T. Brnbin i'ioelected) and Mrs. Walker; secretary, Mr. A. Hohbs (re-t'leetwlJi-iissiatnnt sccrclnry. Mr.' Hurton; treasun-r, ATtfis West (ro'e'lecledi; organist, Miss Linnonson; visitor In junior societies, .Mr. 1!. (:. Hurlon (re-elected).