NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 159, 31 March 1919, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fßy Glencoe.]

The Autumn 'Meeting of the Hawke's Bay Jockoy Club will be held on Wednesday and Thursday. On the opening day the Cup will be decided, and on the -Hawke'si Bay Stakes comes up for decision. Weights for the' "M'oodvillo Meeting are due on J'Yidny.

' A very obvious error, has appeared in the programmo of the llawke's .Bay Jockey Club, In .the .conditions relating to. penalties to be carried in Hip Hawke's Bay Cup. the., words'"niter] tlie declaration of the weights" were inadvertently omitted, though they appeared in every other event in which.penalties have to be carried, so that the of tiio conditions was no doubt well understood.

No fewer than twenty-two two-year-olds have ' lnwl their engagements continued in the-Nursery-Handicap-at Hastings on Wednesday, and- it is safe to say that never before has there been so .many high-class youngsters seen in a race on the Hastings ccurse. Hetiiua, Crenidcs, and Affectation are a particuuarly smart trio, and in addition there is Bitholia, Kindle, Sundance, Fluency, ;and-several others with reputations. : .All Over ivo.s withdrawn from his Eiccarton engagements on Thursday. The defection conies as 110 surprise, as it was announced some, days ftf.o that the All Red'gelding was spelling,. . In America last year u ctrong set was made ' against geldings competing in important ra.ces,; and towards its close some".of the. clubs not' only decided it was advisable- that geldings Bliould he barred from big set-weight two and tliree-year-old races, but■ considered the. 'question.,of closing, some of the principal handicaps jo them, .-However-, that idea ..was modified, but just • after the latest papers to .hand:'left Ameiica the Jockey Club was.to consider a proposition to -debar geldings of Ihrce. or over from Ktartiiit in any race oxeenl. handicap and. selling races,' entries for which closcd 72 hours. before the day of running. -At a of the'e<,>'riimiltoe of the Nelson Joekcy Club held oil Tuesday last, a letter was received- from Messrs. Hull. ; Wheeler, .'V<(l :: Watkius, (in liehalf of. Messrs. Riddifo'rd, iiisclainiing any responsibility for the'u.'-ceptfince of Conine in' tli.o Nelson Cup The'secretary stated that lio had w.eived a .'telegram signed "W. Howe." i-ncc»>Hnj» for Cooing at the race, meeting. The stipendiary stewards had mr.do, ifK|uiries into Ihe matter/and had procured a copy of the original telegram handed.in at Wellington This had been fm warded, together with 'other .information,- to the ' New Zealand Racing Conference Mr. W: 11, E, Wunklyn, of Christehureli, seeretary of Hie Canterbury Jockey Club, is alp recent in tho Lewisham private hospital. He. was taken ill three .or four days iigo villi heart trouble, but is iwressing favourablv.

; Molly's Robe, winner of the Newmarket. Handicap, nt. -Floniincfon, is owned .ny a. ladv : in .-"Brisbane. There were several good winners ever Molly's , Ttolio from tho.-northern State; but Oio di 4 not include the nwtier, who does not list. Sir Ibex,- runner-un to Molly's Rnhe in tlm Newmarket J-fand i,> ap. also filled the same berth in (lie Slandjsli TTii"die.ap and the Cnnlfield Futurity Stake';. In each of-tlm three races lie carried sulwtantjel weights. The -withdrawal of Desert Gold from the Great.. Easter and Ore:;!- Autumn ..ff.andioa.ns-. probably ■ means that "harnpion'"'is iroing to race at Ellerslie at Easter... I'lii? t"ke a lot if interest from the C..1.C, Challenge Sl.ak°s, lis .many sportsmen were hoping that Ihe Vll Black mare would ("Tain oppose Gloaming at' ill that race. It will now bo left to the two-year-olds to take on The Welki" gelding, and as he. made a complete job of Surveyor in tlie W°llin<rt6n Stakes had Kelbnrn Plnle (lie, nf Hi" vo'inser division do not.-look rosv at Ricearton. ■ With.. ''.be.-increased totaHsator receipts at Auckland country fixtures. t ,,n 'iiiio- is surely coming v '-en more mnder'l totalisi ,f ors tho" 'l.nse in use will rerp'ire to be instnll"d, ,«ays on Auel.-; land writer. Jf may be too early to e*. iiect a m"c''ino of the FUerslie tvp° to be erect"'!, ho': 'wli n niece-"f meebnn-i=m-would crbiinlv "arm to show a furthei- marked increase in lotnlisator figures.