NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 60, 4 December 1919, Page 10

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By Glencoe.) Entries for tho following meetings close on Friday: Westland Racing Club, Dunedin Jockey Club, Wairarapa Pacing Club, Marton Jockey Club, aad IJawke's Bay Jockey Club. Acceptances for the Auckland Cup and Railway Handicap are due on Friday, and general entries for the Summer Meeting close, at tho same time. Acceptances for the Taumarnnui meeting ciose on Monday next. Acceptances for the Mnnawatu Pacing Club's Summer Meeting close on Tuesday next. Final payments for the I'almerston North State are also due.

Mosthcnes, the three-year-ohi son of Demosthenes and Drywood, is now trained by J. Sullivan at Woodville. Tho English horse Arrowsmith and Admiral Advance are expected to race at the Woodville meeting. Arrowsmith has, so far, not sported silk in the Dominion. The Methven meeting will take place to-day. Amongst tho runners in the Cup is the Chokeborc three-year-old Macduff, whose form at Picearton last month suggested that ho would be quite ,at home over a ten-furlongs course.

Hctauft met with an accident last week that will keep him off the racecourse for some time. Tho black three-year-old reared up and cut one of his tendons so badly that several stitches had to bo put in. Acacia, the two-year-old full sister to Desert Gold, who met with an accident prior to the running of tlio Hastings Slakes, is making a good recovery, and will next season take up stud duty.

Mr. 11. Coyle's weights for tho Taranaki Jockey "Club's Christmas Meeting are due to-morrow.

It seems to be generally understood that Afterglow will not make tho trip to the Auckland meeting. Bingham, who ran disappointingly at the New Zealand Cup meeting, shaped much better in the Empire Welter Handicap at Feilding, and he may yet return his owner somo of his outlay. A West Coast buyer was negotiating for the purchaso of Bingham, but the sale fell through. Moorfowl has not been pleasing tho touts by the way she has been galloping lately, and unless there is an improvement the Welcome Stakes winner will go out of favour for tho Great Northern Foal Stakes, A Christchurch writer mentions that all going well in the meantime Onslaught- Winter Wind, and Macduff will form the Cliokeboro team for the coming Manawatu meeting. Nominations for all evenis at the Wellington Pacing Club's Summer Meeting close on Friday, December 19th, at 9 p.m. A Press Association telegram from Auckland states that Guerre a Mort has been scratched for all engagements at the Auckland Easing Club's meeting.