NOTES AND COMMENTS
(By QunrcoE./ Acceptances for the first day's handicaps at the Wanganui Meeting close tonight. J. W. Lowe, with Mascot and Insurrection, leaves for Wanganni to-day. Owing to a serious illness in his family, It. Telford had to return from Wanganui, but ho left his team there, and W. M'Conkey will attend to them until th» Wnnganiii Meeting-is o\*r. Seadown is being regularly hacked about the roads at Trentham, but he is shortly to go into work. He seems to have done remarkably .well during his' spell, which was a prolonged one. H. Telford will to-day receive four additions to his team at Trentham, and to make room for them Idleness. Fair Fight, and Philomela aro to be sold. Idleness has a iot of pace, and should be useful in the South Island, while Fair Fight (Martian-Purity) is a 'fine big mare that should be well served by time. Philomela stands over 1C hands, and should bo a success at lumping. The yearlings to come in are geldings by All Black from Effort and Boniform from Dearest, two filles by Boniform from Peace and Vice Eeine, respectively. The accommodation house at Trentham racecourse, which has been in the charge of the military for soino years past, has now been vacated. W. M'Conkey, late caretaker at tho Opaki racecourse, will shortlv take charge of ibis department for the Wellington Racing Club, and will book visiting trainers for futuro meetings. Rada. tho disappointing half-sister to Sasanof, has joined A. M'Cauley's team at Tauherenikau. The big two-year-oid Halifax lias been giving his trainer trouble, and at present he is running in the paddock. The trouble is in one of his forelegs, which has filled-. A largo number of carnenters are at •present working at Trentham preparing a new totnlisator hoitse for the electric machine that is to be installed there. The work is proceeding apace, and the now totalisator will be in operation at the Autumn Meeting. , The, local owner who races as Mr. Walsingham" has recently been negotiating for the purchase of a yearling full brother to Demos that is at present located at tho stables presided over by J. Avrea. , ,T. W. Lowe has just taken in hand a yearling full sister to Meneians that is doing nottering work at Trentham. _ Secretary W. Kail, of the Wanganui .Toekev Club, has been ill with influenza, but a't latest advices ho was recovering. Loronw). a full brother to Rebus's dam Quibble (St. Frnsnuin-Pie Powder), and winner of Manchester and _ Liverpool Cups, was sold at nubile, auction in Ixmdon recently for SOgns.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 127, 23 February 1920, Page 8
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