NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 111, 3 February 1908, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

• ,(By."Glencoc.") .. v::-v • Weights.for the Egmonfc Racing Club's •.■wimmcr meeting aro duo to-d^y"..;; V. : Woodvillo weights aro due to-morrow." " Acceptances for several events ;■ a t-.v-.v ' Canterbury Jockey Club's summer meeting close to-morrow. . 1 ; ' ' f Racing at next Thursday. ■■.: Jolly Friar was lastjna 6cld of four which contested tho Wairio Cup. • a j , .• t m", An Auckland writer -says that Scotty's ra-- ■; ' cent, victory in tho iTakapnna; Cup ..was tho.. only occasion on which thfc St; Leger gelding ■r- lias succecded under- Mr. Morse's handicapping. - 1 ' ' • • Twenty-eight bookmakers havo for : 'licenses ..to held r .-ati'-tho forthcoming .meeting ; .: ; i 1 of the Canterbury . Jockcy Club. .■ v. ■. At tlio Mammaru races iin ■ the Hawke's' w Bay district, last Tuesday, "W: J.'-Yloon.'rcd«< • four winners ,out of the live races for prpfes-' siona] jockeys. * •• , i:-The; entries ;,for'-; tile ;;C.i.C.A6rat,.lsMj:er w< • Handicap must be:: considered verysa t isf ac— tory, as they, contain;-tho' names of all the good spnntors ini-thoiDommioni with the- ex- ; : ,,. .;!'i; oeption, perhaps, of' Lord Soult and'Lupiilitc: .. ? Tho aged gelding Hatitapu; wtio-'won-tlio ;. . ."Waiwera Hurdles. at; the.Tnkapuna- nutting >■■■•■{! on Saturdav,-- succeeded m/the same event ; : last-year. Hautapuhas recently'been "In'tho-' • : • private sale list, and, ■ j' - could" ■- ■ . nave been bought ior-less.- than tho .value, of' . ■ y the :two races, he won • at :fho-.,Takii.puna j •/ • Jockey Club's meeting. ' v..-: