NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 220, 11 June 1920, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

By Glencoe. Entries for all events at the three days' .Winter Meeting of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club close to-night at 8 o'clock. Weights for the Napier Park Meetmg ara due to-morrow, and acceptances closo on Tuesday next. . • 1 . P. Davis was in town this week arranging to talie back to Woodville the Bcnilorm—Sea Queen colt that he will in future The' Gisborne meeting will be concluded to-morrow. Mr. F. J. Lysnar, who lias been on a trip to' Dunedin to see his horses race, returned home on Tuesday. Mr. T,ysnar was greatlv disappointed with the showing of All Talk, who failed badly both on the flat and over fences. The notices of motion to come before the Bailway Conference this year have ■ been published, and it is interesting to . note that the president has taken cliargo . of the requests made by the oclieys who ; recently mot them, and will himstlf move ! them. In racing circles it is freely admitted that tho requests are framed on 1 moderate lines, and they are considered certain to become law. Writing to a southern paper anent tho • vexed question of tho 7st. minimum, Mr. G.' L, Stead, who now raides at Cambridge, makes, inter alia, the rather starting statement that the "bettar a race rider the worse work he will ride." Few people will be found to agree with this, and it in the generally accepted theory that a rider will never reach the top of the tree, or near to it, in his profession unless he rides work constantly. Tho old adage that "practice makes perfect" surely applies in this ease. Take the case of any of the leading riders to-day. They are all noted for attending the tracks to rido work, and under this headinc tho names of the. Yonnge, Dcaley, Gray, Heed, and Emerson rtadily occur to ono. Theso riders are to bo found riding work no matter where they are domiciled, and this is the reason they are season after season, at the hsad of the list of winning horsemen* Mr. A. M'Dohald's horses Strategy, Pnnco Martian. Murihiku, and Torfreda, who have beon raifln'g in tho South Island, are now ouartered at Riccarton, awaiting an opportunity to return to Jfas>torton. Trainer .T. Jamioson lws returned home, and is at present busy with some yearlines. Mr. W. K. Kemball got an early return of some of the 1.500 tmir.eaß he gave for Kckanui and Mill o' Gowrie, for the lastnam"d scored in tho Campbell Hurdles on Wednesday, which wsb worth 400 uovs. to the winner. .The official statement that, comes irom Christchureh to the effect that the jockeys, L. H. Hewitt. J. O'Shea, and K. 0. I!ae, have lodged notice of anpeil with the facing Conference against their suspension by the Auckland District Committee would appear to point, to wise counsels having prevailed, and that- it is now recognised that there is a right and a wrong way In rolne about such matter*. Tho date for the hearing of the appeal will not bo fixed until Sir George Clifford's return to Chrißtchurch. A'Press Association message from Brisbane states that Bunting has broken down, and is not likely to race again. Many distinguished persons liavo shared tHe fears which led Mrs. Clara Manay, of Hove, to embody in her will a list of precautions against premature burial. Hans Anderson and Harriet Martineau loft specific instructions that Uiey should not bo buried untV. everything had been done to mako euro they were lifeless. So did Wilkin Collins, whose novel "Jezebel's Daughter" contains a thrilling account of n st-eno in n German doadhouso when an English widow, poisoned and supposed to bo dead, sits up and confronts her enemies. Sir Richard Burton's widow ordered that her'i;ody shouJd be pierced with a needle in tho region of the heart. LEATHER NEEDS "PLUYOL."