NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 293, 6 September 1919, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By Giencoe.) The combined meetings of the Dannevirlte Kacing Club aim tho Dannevirko Hunt Club will be held on Wednesday and Thursday next. Weights lor tho Olaki and W'nnganui Meetings will be issued at: the conclusion oi the Danneiirke Meeting next week. The Demosthenes three-year-old Ecd Pepper hud to be destroyed last week. Thu youngster was suffering from an internal trouble, and there was no hope of saving him. It is said that when lie is in AVanganui shortly tho Minister of Kailwa.vs will be interviewed by a deputation from the Wnnganui Jockey Club to aeo if something definite can be gathered as to when there will be an improvement in the railway service. Tho Speaker raced a lot better in liis second' attempt at Marton, and it looks as if ho is improving with racing. He is to be a runner in the big handicap at Dannevirke on Wednesday. Tho well-known horseman Sid Eeid has purchased a tstubles containing twelve boxes at Hastings, where he intends to set up as a public trainer. Mr. li. Whitney's horses Eose Pink, Russet, and Preface left early this week for Dannevirke and should arrive there to-day. The first-named, who is (ho top-weight in the hi;; handicap on Wednesday next, is very well, and should lie able to show her best form next week. This year the Wa<iganui Jockey Club is making a new departure, and is taking the acceptances for the coming Spring Meeting on the Friday preceding the gathering instead of the Monday, as was formerly the, case, Tho idea is a good one. j Four horses, belonging to Mr. AA". E. Kemball, were brought from Masterton by train on Friday, and are to be shipped to Sydnoy by this Moeraki to-day. A number of trainers who have been walking their horse;-, to meetings agrco that the animals <lo not do well on the I journey, and the heavy traffic on the roads—which upsets the thoroughbredsis blamed for this slate of affairs. Unless the railway authorities speedily remove the present embargo the coming meetings will suffer for want of starters in the races. Tho Moeraki, which is to sail for Sydney to-day, will take the racehorses Eewi Poto and Henry Clny, who will be in charge of Trainer 1?. Johnson. Jockeys B. Deeley and J. Deerey will also niaKo the trip by the same vessel. At Kicearton P. V. Mason has again taken in Hand the two-year-old colt by Absurd from Bronze. The youngster is only being hacked nt .present, as it is not intended to race him in the spring. The North Island hurdler, Master Moutoa, is still nt Kicearton, where he is under veterinary treatment for an injury to one of his knees, the result of a knock while contesting the' Styx Hurdle Handicap, on tho third day of the Grand National Meeting. Included in the team which the Kicearton trainer M. Tiobbs is working at present is a chestnut colt bv Jaeger, from Assertive, by Cocksure. ll—Tho Tabard, by Zinefandel—Canterbury Pilgrim, a half-sister to Pilgrim's Progress. The colt boasts an English pedigree, though he was foaled in New Zealand, early in 1916, soon after the arrival of his dam, who was imported by Mr. J. Grig?, lie is u quality tonkin!? customer, who shows promise of developing into a very useful performer. A Press Association message stales that the Northern Wniroa Boeing Club has purchased the thoroughbred Marble Arch for the purpose of improving the breed of thoroughbred stock in that district.