NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 149, 19 March 1920, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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The Mnsterton meeting will be held on the Onaki racecourse to-morrow. The mail train leaving Lambton Station at 7.50 a.m. will stop at Opaki on the way north, and a train for Wellington will leave Onaki nt 5.40 p.m. .

Entries for all events at "the Meflawatn Racing Club's . Autumn Meeting close to-night'at 9 o'clock. Forfeits for the Sires' Produce Stakes ant) Manawatu Stakes are due at the same hour.

General entries.for the C.J.C. Easter Meeting are due to-night, also acceptances for the Great Easter and Great Autumn Handicaps.

The well-known horseman B. Deeley was married in Auckland on Monday, March 8. to Miss Kav. .'

Arrowsmith went south on Wednesday to be finished off at Riccarton for.the C..1.C. Great. Easter Handicap. ■ He has' irono into the stable presided .over by F.. Christmas.

.In the south Amythns is a very firm order for the CJ.C. Great Easto.- Handicap. The three-venr-old has got plenty of weight with 9st. 61!>. to carry, and he is conceding nearly 2st. to some others of his age. It .will be a wonderful performance if the Demosthenes gelding is successful.

The victorv of Polthogue ill tlio :Hurdles at Onunake yesterday recalls the fact Hint;' 0, Jackson's'charge was rim-nsr-uu in the'same event last year, and then went. on and 'won 'nt Hawera and Waneanui. A similar programme may he followed with the Pntronus folding this vear. and he will probably be more forward than'most of the other steeplechasers whon the jumping season- proper .owns. . • Valencia, winner of the Maiden Plato at Onunake, is hv Solferino from Anitea, nnd is a cant-off from P. .T. Jlsison'3 stable. He is, now trained by ]?. Barlow at New Plymouth. ' The. win of Te Toa in the 'Welter Hnn : diean at Onunake was. unexpected by followers of the sport, as the New Plymouth celdinc had earlier in the day Sorted favourite in the Hurdles, but had failed to gain a,place. Well-authenticated reports from Biccarfon slate that Fiery Cross is coming back to form, and his trainer views his nrosi>ects in the Great Easter Handicap in a .most lioneM fashion. The son of Glenann is not likely to ho .forward cnoutrh J .o contest the Grcat Autumn Handieni). At. the Gore meeting last week Almoner. tne four-yearald son of Bomform and Cassock, nianaml to interrupt a fairlv loner string of defeats that are entered acainst his name sineo ho won the Breeders' Plate at Pandwick in the soring of 1917. Almoner registered his flnecess in the Pacing Club Handicap at Gore, and though ho mny never, attain the. prominence that was Tiopod for when he scored his victory early at two years old. he is" to be viowed as on improving '"tHs n wonder some notoriety-hunting individual hasn't offered a bic sum. for Artillervman Tomarks "Beacon of the, Melbourne "T/fadftr." He would bo nnito infp.- for it would take a; fair share of the national debt'to buy the .Comodv Kine colt. . Punka and Bindlo have.been scratched for all engngements at the C..T.C. Autumn Meetine (renorts the Pre*? Assn.). A Press Association message from Marton statos that the following wereomitr tfd from the Pamritikei acceptance?:— Oh.ikea Hack Handicap: Rignorella, fl?t. Carnarvon Hack Handicap: Elegant, list. 91b. Pukenni Hack Welter Hajidican: Peirard. Bst. • '• | A Press Association cablo message from Sydney states that the owner. Mr. Wade, has' issued a writ claiming .C7OOO against the Rosehill Pace Club, in connection with the dentil of Estland.