NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 29, 29 October 1920, Page 10

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Bt Glencoi.

Nominations for all events of tlio Feildlne Jockey Club's Spring Meeting, except the Fifteenth Feilding Stakes, will be received' up till 8.-30 to-night with the secretary, Mr. E. Goodbchere. Box 45, Feilding. . The annual meeiing of the TaratahiCarterton Eacing Olub will be held on the Olarovillo course Excel{o»t acceptances have been received for

all events, and it only wants fine \veathef to eiisuro the gathering being a record one. Wellington natrons can travel by the mall Ira'n leaving Lambton Station at 7.50 a.m. Excursion tickets will be available, and nil trains will Btop at Clarevillo. The Otaeo Hunt Club Meeting will bs held on tun Wingatui l'acccoursc on Sat.ur-. any.

T''e V.R.G. Snrlng Mealing is to open at Flemington to-morrow, when the Derby and .vk'lhounie Stakes will be decided.

Acceptances for all events at the 0.J.C1 Meetlne clobc on Wednesday nest.

Right and Loft and Gasbair have been left In Ihe Great Northern Guineas, but as the pair have been shipped south they will not be racing' at TJllcrslie.

Caricature, winjer of the 'unction Handicap at Gisborne ycftcrfiay, is one of tho first progeny of the imported Absurd. She started nine times last season and won twico. besides being placed teveral times. She is owned b.\ ( Mr. K. B. Williams. M.P.

The locally owned Cam-on and La Pa- • lomn did not run up to expectations at Trentliam. so their owner haa withdrawn them from their C.J.C. engagements. Tho pair will probably be seen out .at the Horowhenna. meeting next month. Prince Ferouz did not accompany the rest of the Kiaxmcre team to Riccarton. and the good-looking Feramor* fwo-yoar-old is now an inmato of J. M'Laughlin's slAblee at Trentham.

L. Wilson, with Koh'i, Maioha. Early Dawn and four two-yenr-o'dß, went south by the Maori last evening.

When Martial Dawn won the two-year-old handicap at Trentham <,n Monday, rhe made ihe first winner itimed.out by F. Ellis since ho took up the training Business.

> Rational Is not en»need in the Welcome Stakes, but it is understood lhat he Is to be sent to IMccarton and will contest the two-year-old handicap events.

Bengeroop'a win .it Gore last week, following his siicces-. at Kurow. has earned liim'o penalty of 51b. in the New Zealand Cun, making hii; weight in that race 6st. 1210.

A JHiNwefMit that; ticked off .is a, possible candidate for Melbourne Cup honours is Ec-arte, a four-year-old. wjho with a, 7:-... penalty, has still the handy inmost of 7st. Ecarte filled th" role of runnerup to Pershore In the Metropolitan Handicap. and on the concluding ilav nf tho A.J.C. Meetfng won tlio Waverley Handicap (ono mile and three-quarters) in 3mln. 13see.

P. Demnsey hap ridden in five Ganlfield Cups, and he has the record of winning three, hie successes prior to Kurythinic being on Lavendo and Bronzetti. Silent King and Satisfaction have been scratched for all engagements at the C.J.O. meeting', reports a, CUrintchurch Prelis ABsoeiallon mc3?agc. It is Policenble that the Caullield Cud winner Eurvthmic figures amongst the final payments for the Melbourne Cup. The son of Eudorus has several times won over 12 furious:?, and once he ran a deadheat. in a two-mile race, bo there is no need to fear, that the distance will trouble him In 'he big event at Plemlnirton. Ho will probably be eivon a race in the-Melbourne Stakes, one mile and a onnrter. on Saturday, and it will bo inter-ai-ting to see how he *'ara with the Epsom Handicap and Craven 1 late wlnnor Greenstend. It is cWnwd lv the' admirers of Eurythmic that fo far he hai never had to gallon in iiib jaces, but they are not likelv to ; e able to say- tho same after Saturday. ; It is not surprisini7 to learn that tho huge birMing for worldni» ihe totnlisstor at Eandwick has alreadv proved altogether inadequate to requirements, and that in order to provide further facilities for the public the svstc.-n in i se in Franc# nf having a number of small buildings in various parts of the enclo-iur.irf may alFo he adopted, Someiliiii" >f the kind is hadlv .required on the bitr courses in I'ie Dominion, and if adopted it- would do aw.iv with the overcrowding which at presep', takes nlace.

That [treat hor«o I'oitrcl 'as been accepts! for in the Melhourne Cur. in which he l\aß the cr.nhinK impost cf 106!. Tn recent yearn, with the exception of Wakeful. lOflt., who ran second, no horse firrvine nnvthiiif rear thin Veicht, has fill-; ed a nlnce, and there does not seem to b( any reason to pusnect that Poit'-c] will bo ' successful. hut if ho pets out. of the race free of harm, some of the hi" '"eiirht-for-aeo events should fall to his hid.