JOTTINGS

Evening Star, Issue 22459, 2 October 1936, Page 6

JOTTINGS

Owners are reminded that nominations for the Spring Meeting of the Gore Racing Club, to be held on October 24 and 26, close on Monday at 5 p.m. This is one of the most popular meetings on the calendar in the spring, and always attracts good patronage from Otago owners. This year the club has arranged for special trains to and from Dunedin on each day of the fixture, and trainers will be able to get their horses home on the night of the second day’s racing. Nominations for the . South Canterbury Jockey Club’s Spring Meeting close on Monday, at 9 p.m. Entries for the New Zealand Champion, Stakes, £650 (1937), for three-year-olds, close with the secretary of the Ashburton Trotting Club on Monday at 5 p.m. The final acceptance for the New Zealand Cup, £3 each, is due this evening, at 5 o’clock: Acceptances for the first day of the Dunedin Jockey Club’s Spring Meeting are due this evening at 5 o’clock. The betting at Kurow and Otaki on Saturday will both be conducted under the single pool system. There are 52 wires connecting every ticket issuer on the new totalisator at Trentham with the main machinery. Nominations for the New Zealand Trotting Cup (£2,000 and gold cup valued at £100) close on Tuesday at 5 p.m. The late Mr W. Crossan’s horses will be sold in the Dunedin horse saleyards, Maclaggan street, next Friday, at 2 p.m. The ‘ New Zealand Referee ’ selects Silver Slipper and Rousseau as two horses that should bo worth following at Kurow to-morrow. The New Zealanders Gold Rod and Mala are now monopolising attention in connection with the A.J.C. Derby. Final payments in connection with the M'Lean Stakes, for two-year-olds, and Dunedin Guineas, for three-year-olds, are due this evening at 5 o’clock. Mr T. H. Lowry suffered a severe loss recently when a colt by Lord Quex from Oreum, thus a half-brother to the champion Gold Rod, died shortly after being foaled. The South Canterbury Jockey Club will run its spring meeting on the 17th inst. under the win-and-place system of betting. The change was decided on almost unanimously at a recent meeting of the committee. Silver Ring and Sporting Blood, both New Zealanders, are joint favourites for the A.J.C. Metropolitan, one point shorter than High Cross and Wykeham. It is reported from Riverton that C. T. Wilson has been engaged to ride Tauramai in his engagements this spring. Though not included in the list of horses .advertised to be sold on behalf of the late Mr Crossan next week, Latitude, who won two races last season and was placed in 10 other races, is to be offered with the others. It is reported from Riccarton that Impact, who is engaged in the Trial Handicap at Kurow, and Southdown, who is engaged in the Cup, will not bo starters to-morrow. , Bay Biddy, who showed fair form in_ hack races last season, is to bo tried out over hurdles, and has shown an aptitude for jumping in the schooling tasks so far set her. For the convenience of horse owners and trainers returning from Dunedin Jockey Club’s races a special fast train, conveying horses, also passengers for Oamaru and stations north thereof, will leave Dunedin at 8.30 a.m. on Sunday, October 11, arriving at Christchurch at 5 p.m. Riding engagements at Kurow tomorrow include G. Humphries, Lord Nuffield, Wine Card, Polygraph; D. O’Connor, Polygraph (High-weight Handicap); M. Kirwan, Rousseau, Polydora; W. Jones, Rona Bay; C. Hughes, Redolent; A. Parsons, Silver Slipper; R. Beale, Ada (High-weight Handicap). While O. Disley, of Wellington, was establishing the fastest time in the Palmerston North to Wanganui cycle race on Saturday afternoon Mr O. Disley’s mare Rona Bay distinguished herself by putting up the slowest time in the President’s Handicap at the Geraldine meeting by finishing last. Silver Streak jarred one of the joints of his off foreleg during a gallop at Randwick on September 23, and, rather than risk the danger of a complete breakdown. T. Hobbs decided to ease him up straight away. Up to that stage Silver Streak had been pleasing his trainer in his work. “ It is to be regretted that the club suffered by reason of the dissatisfaction of the Auckland provincial owners with the penalties imposed under the handicapping system,” says the annual report of the Thames Trotting Club. “ While this dissatisfaction existed, whether rightly or wrongly, the position of country clubs would remain unsatisfactory, especially where the stakes were small. The committee would appreciate some indication from the members as to whether the stakes should be reduced, or a bold policy adopted in view of the apparent better times.”