NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 90, 10 January 1920, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By Glencoe.) Nominations for the Dunedin Cup meeting are due on January IG. Acceptanccs for tho AYcllington meetiuir ciose on Friday next, and for the I'oxton meetiii!; on Saturday. It is more than likely that the AYairaraoa. owner 111'. A. M'Donald will be renresenterl by some of his team at tho Dunedin Jockey Club's Summer Meeting next month ltoDorts from Sydney state that a gang of tokilisator ticket fakers are operating on the racecourse there. Amvthas equalled a nice record when ho won the. Invercargill Cuj> in -nun. R 3.,isee. Golden Kins won in the same time when he scored in 1317, and in 1911 Snecialform won in 2iuin. 8 4-ssec. When Arlington won his fourth lnirdlu race at Grevmonth, Bowden carried almost Sst. dead weight. He rode in a big iinliceman's saddle, and earned Vs.t. or lead. Biff'sheets of lead wero called into renuisiton to go over the horses wither. The Auckland llacing Club has had its attention drawn to tho fact that eight minutes claused before tho ambulance nicked ud a rider whose mount fell durum' the Auckland Cup meeting. Ihe executive of the New Zealand Jockeys Association have made a request that the ambulance should be more prompt in pickine ud iniured riders. Eieht Bells was sold at 120gns on tho morninu of tho second day at lin cicar* ttill to Mr. W. Swale, who passed her on nt. a small increase to Mr. J. Gnwo,foi whom she promptly made a returrot nurchase money by winning the SummAcmrdiMftto the Bute of Eaping a !"v»t. wr .tat, « ™ hp mav think proper m the real ot the field Some starters do not apparently know that such a rule exists. A Danncvirko- ho saw Anivthas race at Dunedin states that the Demosthenes three-year-old w capable o „ lot of imoroyement, and his tranwr exnects to have hint at his best bj the day of the AVellinston Cup. T While in Wellington yesterday J. Brvce conferred with the officials of tho Wellington trotting .Club re the purso in be competed for by Cathedral Clumcs Jnul Author Dillon at tlie Hull on Janu'The 1 Hastings trainer AV. Stone is contemnkitinir a trip io.Sydney this month He will leave at the w " c J)!f'°" AVcllineton meeting, and will piobabiy i'akp <i cbunlc of horses with hun. On Koilntcrnl form Amythns •is-tlm best three-year-old of the season, so far as it has gone. In tho Biocnrton AYeltei- Handicap, run over nine at the New Zealand Cup meeting, Ro>al Stair was beaten a length when attemptin" to uive Koval Star ill). In other Klb. better than Itoyal Star, and hence n far bctler three-year-old than Koj.il SJ 2 Bvv:e passed through AVollinpton vrslordnv on his way to i if Trottinir Club's meeting, which is to be held at Hamilton to-day. Brvce has four horses eneaeed at the meeting. Nominations for the Hamilton > mee - ina close with tlie secretary, Mr. I?, J. Gwvnee, at 8 p.m. on -January 18.-