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NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By Gl.kncoe.]

The Woodville meeting will fake place to-morrow and on Thursday. The-first event each day. will start at 11.15 a.m. The winter meeting of the Eginont Racing CI lib, which was cut out during the war period, is being reinstated this year and will take place on May 14 and 15. A most attractive card has been framed, and is endowed with VE2BIO in prize money. For the first time nn open steeplechase will be run each day. Entiles close with ■ Secretary V.- B. Stratton' on April 24. Secretary J. M. Johnston, of tho Manawatu Racing Club, will receive entries for the autumn meeting, .to be held at Awapmii on Wecnesdav, May 7 and .8, up till 9 o'clock to-night. Forfeits for the Sires' Produce and Munawatu Stakes are due at'the same hour.

Entries for the Wairarapa meeting clo=e : with Secretary C. J., Carlyou at 5 o'clock this evening. The meeting takes place on April 26 and 28. This year visiting (miners are not arriving at Riccnrton as early j<s usual. There seenw to bo an impression .that it is not advisable to leave home until the last possible moment, so that in the event of nnything untowird happening there will be no inconvenience.

Mr. W. 11. .13. Wanklyn, secretary of the Canterbury Jockey Clirb, Ims received (he.-ifolloiving cable message from the Australian' Jockey Club, Sydney-.—"Aus-tralian meet-in? postponed one week. Forfeits due April 17, extended accordingly. 'Committee consider almost certain meeting will have 1 to be abandoned." At Ricca-rlon oil Saturday morning Ron Spec was responsible for the best gallop by getting to the end of five-furlonga in linin, 2scc, He gave Belair a threelengths start and finished alongside of lior. The Boniform gelding does not laclc pace, but the distance may be toofar for him on Easter Monday.

Reports from New Plymouth state that Rewi Poto has been galloping ploasingly in his training work, and he is to be a runner in the big handicap at the Woodville meeting to-morrow. In'connection with the Woodville meeting, which takes place on Wednesday and' Thursday, a spwinl train will leave Pnlmerston North each oay at 9.55 a.m.

Tlie Trenton—Wnterlily gelding. Revenue, winner of the Melbourne Cup of 1901. and who was the shortest price favourite to win that race, was killed in action in Palestine some months ago. Revenue was an officer's charger.

Trainers with horses engaged in tiio big handicaps at the coming C.J.C. Easter meeting are experiencing considerable difficulty in getting suitable riders fpr their charges., A similar cry is heard from the north, and it seems as if there will be a shortage of horsemen during the holiday gatherings. 'die winnings of Snub at the V.R.C. autumn meeting credited Mr. W. It. TCeni'ball with the tidy sum of J2U22, s» that, already the trip to Australia bios fail' to be a payable proposition.

. The New Zealand horses Lingerie and Impediment, both of whom failed to win a race in Melbourne, are to be returned to Hastings shortly. Mr, J. J. Corry has disposed of Guinea Gold, ami the three-year-old is how owned on the West Coast. lie will raco in his new owner's colours at: faster.

The Wellington horseman C. Heed has 'been engaged to ride Bedford in the A.Tt.C. Easter Handicap.

Aocording to an Auckland exchange, F. Davis arrived from the south on Hatur. day with his team, consisting of Desert Gold, Killowen, Lucid, and lied Popper. A full-sister to Desert Gold, a chestnut, in colour, has just been broken in by F. Davis. Considerable interest will attach to the doings of the youngster. : So far no rider has been engaged for either Desert Gold or Killowen in the A.R.C. Easter Handicap. L. Morris will rfe'.e Mr. T. H. lowry's two-year-olds iu their engagements at the meeting. . B. H. Morris is to ride lletaua in the Great Northern Champagne Stakes. A rumour has been persistently circulated during the week (says an Auckland paper) that all was not well with the Easter Handicap favourite Tmmalm, Private information received states that the son of Demosthenes lias been going down behind and knocking hie joints aboiit, but it is not expected that anything of a serious nature will result. FIXTURES. April 16 and 17—Woodville J.C. Autninn. April I!)—Tu.ipeka County J.C; Jubilee. April 19 and 21—Auckland R.C. Autumn. April 19, 21, 23, and 26—Australian J.C. Autumn. April 21—Wnipukurau J.C, Annual. April 21 and 22—Canterbury .T.C. Autumn. April 21, 22—Feilding J.C. Autumn! April 21—Kumara R.C Autumn. April 23 —Westland R.C." Autumn. April 2G—Greymouth J.C. Autumn. April 28, 28—Wnirarapa R.C. Autninn, April 30—Roefton T.C. Autumn. M.av 1 and 3—Wellington R.C. Autumn. Mav 7 and B—Manawitu R.C. Antumn. May 14 and ID—Eginont R.C. Winter.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 172, 15 April 1919, Page 9

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NOTES AND COMMENTS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 172, 15 April 1919, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 172, 15 April 1919, Page 9

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