NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 237, 1 July 1919, Page 10

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[BY GMTOE.I Acceptances for the first day's handicaps at thp Wellington meeting, also entries for tho Trial Plate and Selling Race, close on Thursday night at 9 o'clock. It is expected that ihe ."Railway Department will ba rushed with orders to-day from owners who wish' to get transport for their horses to the Wellington meeting, which will definitely take place on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday of next week. Messrs. ,1. W. Abbott and O. S. Watkins will represent the Wellington facing Club at the Racing Conference which is to be held on Wednesday of next week. •The Government, tolnlisator inspector has asked the president of the Placing Conference to ?.ave the rules amended so that every ticket issued shall bear the name of the proprietor of the machine. the number of the horse on the rare card, the number of (he cures in respect of ■which it is issued, and for which dav of (he meeting. Tlii« is a wise proceeding, and should remove what is at present a common cause for complaint. Reference to the balance-sheet to be submitted to the 'Racing Conference next week shows that for the year ended .Tune 19 the salaries and expenses of the stipendiary stewards cost .G292?, 16s. sd. Both the Kotow henna Racing Club aud the T'uralahi-Cartevton Hoeing Club applied for an additional day's racing dnrins the coming season, but their applications did not receive the endorsement of the Wellington District Committee. The ten per cent, on winnings which owners usually grant to their trainers, and which was wiped out some years ago unless a "joint interest" wns registered. will next week bn reinstated without the necessity of registering a partnership, if the president of the Racing Conference has his wn_r. This is n move which will he much appreciated by trainers. who, with tho present high prices of feed and labour, have a lot to conlend with to make both ends meet at the conclusion of a season's racing.

After winning the TTorctnungn Handicap on Fridnv Detroit very lame, anil wns railed to Ota Id the followin'' dnv. Trainer K Penman mis not nertnrbed over tlio Frisco jreldinK's lameno,«. which he state 's wore apparent Hi mi real. ami the Trentham moetinic will wo l' ! »i. in action once more. ■ After I'aUiii!? in the HawluM Hay Hurdles. Master Moiiloa, RaUopi-tl about the inside of the course. ami eventually collided with a horse and trap. He vrns verv lame after the incident, and is not likc.lv to he abla to nice the Wellington meet ins. The WaiVuto Hunt Clubs meeting, for irliicli lni"!C ncecpbi'.ers have been recmveil. is hilled to take, place on Saturdav ne.\l. As it will be the first race ni eel in it hold since the new railway timetable rnme in!o operation, more than usual interest will '■>; displayed as to Iv.mv the club will o l|V '- . , „ O.viinr (o the limileii 'ram service for next week's rnoinp and I he necessity, lor a !a:'„'e ruuiitu?r y people Jirmni? <» Iravci hv ir.irfor. the uimmittee ol Uw WJlinnfor. Kaein;< Chi'.) is miililn? en effort li«*\o the. 'If.iiTi" wnliilleH Sn« ivMe war, -o it.. In ••.-•"id Ihe V!«k Oi a:'aiivrnh, in.;! an i-fiurt ir- /.!-'«• to he ma« ft 'anvo >li« <•».>!.W4. TMirimr the war uericd .Ai;?:ii :':o -Vrelary IT. 71. liar, of the .A- .UvW Club, wade a finvliir n.'jvc. \viih beTielicial result* In the I• :i;• :r rihiir Thrtp or K. Mnrrlrkofl', Tenacwii;? ■ aurl >I<>'ri-■' <". are only enKnired on thr days of Ibe We 1 ., linstnn Hasine Oi-iVs wilder mectinsr. and il will on runniiiß at I be Wr's'.To rji.Mii; fa hire whether lliev a'-;.' l.roii'.Thr..:otiib or not. idr. TV*. J. VViiion, nroor of Entente

Cordiale. intends appealing to the W Zealand Racing Conference agambt the decision of the committee ot the Auckland Racing Club in disqualifying that horse after he had won the Jumpeis Flat Race at the club's recent winter ™lr' n j W. Larnach, of Brambletye, Kast Grinstead and Lamvades Hall, Newmarket. "\vlio died January U lusi, aited 89, left estate of the ™ ,lie X 349 260. One of his bequests was AMU to his trainer, Walter Sanderson in acknowledgment (if his iaitblul and lionest service. . , ~ Mr J. N. Keslop received a cablegram last week of the safe arrival of Arrowsmith at Sydney, and is looking forward to that horse's arrival at Auckland, but nn definite date was fixed in his cablegram Tor the departure from Australia. A full-brother to Arrowsmitli, named Bowman, was used by his breeder, the lata Mr. W. .T. Larn?cli, at. his stud, and when the mail left England a number of two-year-olds by him were advertised to be sold in that sportsman's estate, all untried, and a three-year-old, also untried, was ono to be disposed of.