NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 86, 4 January 1908, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Hutiwai, who won a doublo at the Takapau mooting last Monday, is _ likely to provo usoful in better company later on. Roscgrovo was unlucky enough to run third in the big race on each day of tho Stratford meeting. Mr. .1. Hathaway is ccrtaiiily having very hard luck with tlio Rangipuhi gelding. • ' Tho Rangitikoi Racing Club has had plans prepared for tho now racecourso at Bulls, and work in connection with tho track will commenco almost immediately. Tho present track is over a milo and a quarter round, but tho new ono, which will bo of a better shapo, will ,just bo a shade-over a mile. The Club has purchased a hundred acres of ground near the present site, and intends to have an up-to-dato course, with modern appointments. The track, as shown in the plan, is shaped something v )iko the Trontham one, and special attention will bo given to the turns. Tho straight is to bo a furlong in longth, and will occupy tho ground dn which tho lawn and stands are now situated. These will ho shifted further back Oil to a risiug terraco of'ground. At in previous years, the steeplechases will bo • run ovor natural country, as arrangements for that purpose liavo been made with the Polo Club, who aro the owners of the adjoining proporty. ' ; An unploasant incident occurred at tlio conclusion of the Rangitikei Racing Club's nieeting on Thursday, when public dissatisfaction was expressed at tlio judge's decision in the Wolter Had;. Anyone who knows tho course will admit that the judge is in a much better position to see the result of- a raco than anyono else on the courso, and it is' difficult to sco why bis decision should bo questioned in a closo finish. Unfortunately, earlier in the day thero was an error in hoisting tho numbers of a second horse, and this, together with tho confident manner in which Yosami was ridden, evidently carried away a scction of tho public.