NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 157, 28 March 1919, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

. [By Glencoe.l The Poverty Bay meeting will bo hold to-morrow. • , . . , Owners are reminded that entries tor the Woodville and Feilding Autumn Meetings close to-night. , , The Autumn Meeting of the Wellington Racing Club will lie held on May 1 and 3, and the Miinnwatu Meeting takes place the week following. At the coming Autumn Meeting of tho Wellington Racing Club Ihompson Hai.dicap, one mile, will be worth 10UI) sovs. and the Autumn Handicap, one mile and . a quarter, (150. sovs. All hack races are worth' 200 sovs.' Entries for all events dose oil Friday, April 11, at !l p.m. •' The annual meeting of the Hororata Racing Club will be held to-morrow. At the recent Westport. meeting oily fivo jockeys, were iii attendance, aim several horses had io be scratched because their owners could not get riders. , A recent addition to .T. M Combes s useful team at Riccarton is the Bonnorm mare Bonsign, who •showed consistent i form at, Ashburton last week. Mythology aiid Naughty (jueen are not now eligible to start in tins P';Y° or Mythology in tile Bangor Ha.dk at tho Hororata B.C. meeting on Saturday. Almoner, who had his first race as a gelding at Ashburton, is to arrive irom the south to-day, and will bo railed to Hastings, ivhere lie will contest tho Hawked Bay Stakes- on Thursday next. ,1. O'Noil, who has been acting as head lnd to R, Hannon for some time, is taking charge of a team of horses for Mr. J. llnwkiiis at New Plymouth. ' . A -prominent defection from ilio Hawke's Bay Cup is Client who was weighted lat Bst. 101b. ».• W. Duncan col:siders that, his liorte is not on the up grade.' and he would not be jjoou enough to win the race in lotion. The Neiv Zealand-bred gelding Sanci broke down while runniiig in the Australian Cup. ' Daytime arrived at Wellington on j uesdaviast, aiid was railed to Tanherenikan, where lie will be trained in future. .To now races in the ownership of Mr. Jl. • Brown, and the Wellington sportsman nuicklv got even on-t-he-purchase of the Hyir.ettus gelding. ICilrnsh also came north on- Tnp'dav.--lie Will be raced by Trainer A. M'Aula.y, who has a lease of Press Association cablegram from London, March 20. reports the result of the .Lincolnshire Handicap ns lollojtsj Royal Bucks, 1; .RiVcl'sliorc; 2; Somerville,'3.