NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 170, 12 April 1919, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[Br Glekcok.] Acceptances for the Feilding meeting close on Monday next. Entries for nil events at the Manawatu Racing Club's autumn meeting close on Tuesday next. ■ Nominations for all events at the. Wairnrnpa meeting, to be held on April 2G and 28. close on Tuesday next. The Taratahi-Cartwton Club has issued its programme for the annual meetills to bej held on Thursday, May 29. There are eight races on the card, and the principal event is. the Wairarapa

County Cup, of 200 sovs, seven furlongs. Nominaliniis dose on May 9. The pocket edition of the "New Zealand Turf lu'gistcr," with the form from November M to April t, is (o hand. Tho ipuistor, which contains a great deal of information to followers of tho turf, is com piled by the "Christ church Press" Company. Up till Thursday last lion Spec had not ilono nuv fast work for some days, and ho was an absentee from the Riccartou tracks on that morning. Tho diiccarton apprentice T. L. Roid has been engaged to ride Old Gold in the C.J.C. Great Easier Handicap, and F. Porter will be on Margerine at tho samo meeting. P. Mason passed through 'Wellington on Tliursdav with the Great Northern Oaks candidate Afterglow. H. Telford left for Auckland on Tliursdav with 80-Peep and Active. Tho former will contest the A.R.C. Easter Handicap, one mile, and Active will race ill the hack events. 80-Peep has freshened ud. and looks well. She has tho nice handy impost of 7st. 21b.,, and should run out a good mile. Friday, April 25, is general entry day for tho Wauganui Jockey Club's Winter Meeting, which is to bo hold on Thursday and Saturday, May 22 and 24. A reminder is "given those interested that the dispersal sale of the Pnrorangi racing stud will take place at Alniadale, Feilding, on AYednesduy, April 23. Several good performers arc to be sold, including Sonnino, Demos, Bitholia, and Parorangi. Tenacious, who is engaged .in tho Brighton Hurdles at Ellerslio next, Saturday, has the record of having won on the flat, over hurdles, and a steeplechase all in a month. In Sydney recently T. Roberts, a Civil Servant, sought to recover from Bertram M'Clvmont ,£74 3s. 4d. relative to the training of the racehorse Bimeter. _lt was alleged by plaintiff that in consideration of his agreeing to pay half of the expenses of the training of Bimeter defendant promised to pay tho balance of the expenses and to give lum a third of the orizo money won by the ex-New Zealander. Bimeter won <0182 in stakes, but ulaintifl' had not received his share. Defendant denied that he had entered into any arrangement with Roberts as to the division of the stakes. Plaintiff was to pay part of tho training expensesjn consideration of being allowed to be in the know." Many men, he said, had paid up to .£SOO for such a privilege. The jury found in favour of defendant. As Bonny Briar has been withdrawn from her Eilerslie and Riccarton engagements, ir. is probably intended to give the English-bred filly a spell. The Melbourne "Leader" says there are men holding V.R.C. licenses as trainers who really have no more right to them than they would have to Flying Corps certificates. They know next to nothing about the anatomy of tho racehorse, nor of stable management, and as most of their time is spent in the city or on racecourses peeking potential clients, they are not at all likely to acquire knowledge of this sort. It is the same in most other cities as in Melbourne. and it is a glib tongue that keens such men in the game, 'ihey uro accepted at tlieir own valuation by men who are shrewd in their own business, but are easy:marks where racing is concerned. Tho defeat of the New Zealand colt Finmark in the V.R.C. Derby, run at Ficmington in November last, continues to form the subject of comment in Australia. "Beaton," of the Melbourne "Leader," says"Looking back, it is apparent Miat Eusebius did nothing extraordiuaiiv when ho beat Outlook a head in the V.R.C. Derby, and there is no doubt in the minds of many people who saw tho race that Finmark, instead of running third, should have won easily. The New Zealand colt proved that when ho finished fourth in the Melbourne Cup, while Eusebius was twentythird." A Press Association telegram from Ohristchurch states that Euripos was scratched for the lvildarc Hurdles at the C.J.C. Easter meeting at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon.