NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 148, 18 March 1919, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By Glencoe.] ' The AVoodville Jockey Club's meeting is to bo held (o-morroW and Thursday. Tho iirst event each (lav will shirt at 11.30 a.m. ' Acceptances for the Rangitikei meeting close on Friday next. AVellingtoii patrons of the Masterton meeting on Saturday will be pleased to learn that arrangements have, been made for tho, mail train to stop at the racecourso siding and a ireturu train will leave the siding at 5.10 p.m. for AVellingtoii. The Demosthenes filly Star Lady, who has a couple of engngcmenls at AVoodville this week, has been accorded a nomination in the Easter Handicap at Auckland. Eisingliam, who has been spelling for some time, lias again joined the active workers at Trentham. The Rokoby gelding appears to be greatly benefited by his spell. ■ Evidently tho allegations made in West Australia in regard lo the doping of horses has some foundation, for the W.A.T.C. (Porth) recently .passed tlie following regulation: "All horses intended to be run in any race shall bo ■brought into tlie saddling paddock at least one hour immediately preceding the time appointed for the starting of such race, and shall remain there until the time shall have arrived to proceed to tho starting post."

Tho G>reat Northern Steeplechase winner Peary, which was sold at the dispersal sale of the lato Hon. .T. D. Ormond's horses for 18gns., tat which failed to stand a preparation last season, has been entered for the steeplechase events at tho Southland Racing Club Autumn Meeting. Tho first prize in tho .£IOO nomenclature competition, conducted by the London "Sportsman" for the name for the colt by Sunstar from Sceptre, was awarded to the' person who suggested Lucifer's Rod.

Prom tho beginning of April Mr. H. AV. Brown's team will be managed by A. M'Aulay, who formerly trained for the lato Mr. A. AV. Ruthcrfurd.

The Horowliouua Racing Club has received bllicial permission to hold a meeting on June 0. A recent addition to .T. Ayrcs's team at Trentham is a well-grown and neallyturned chestnut filly by Hallowmas from Ukraine. The youngster, who is n halfsister to Snsunof, ill carry the same colours as Risingham. ' Tho governing authorities in England having agreed, • racing will be held «t Epsom and Ascot, this year. The Derby and Oaks will be run in June at Epsom for the first time since, 11111. The New Derby and Oaks, for which entries wcro taken some lime ago, and which, if the war had continued, would have been run at Newmarket, arc l<> be dropped. ' A Melbourne wr'ricr mentions that once while travelling to AVcstern Australia Mr. S. P. Mackay Imaird that (hero were a couple of yearlings for sale at Adelaide, and he went out and inspected them by candle light, and bought one of them. The Porirua owner, Air. .T. 11. Prossor, had a similar cxporienco once a few yearn ago. Ho got a telegram from Air. ,J. 11. Reid informing him that there were three yearlings on an incoming .Sydney tat. and if lie liked any of them ho could have his pick. . Prossor came to lown find found that the youngslers were down tho hold, but he was acrobat enough io get down lo have a look al them. It was pitch'dark and the bo'ejun supplied a. candle in o bottle. Prossor picked''out one whose head appealed lo iiiin. He got her oil' the boat, and subsequently won iraco's wilh her. Her name was Lady Medallist, winner of innumerable big handicaps in the Dominion, and also a Caullield Cup and Craven Plate.