NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 125, 19 February 1908, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

_ for the Shannon Hack Racing Club's- meeting, to be hold on February 26, close at 8.30 this evoning with the Secretary, Mr. A. Rawle. ... Nominations for the Napier Park. Racing Club's Autumn meeting are duo on Friday night. Nominations' for Darinevirke on Saturday. '. . Mr. J. E. Henrys left on Monday night, for the Dunedin meeting, .'which' commences to-day.' ■ . , Tho Wdodville. Cup will bo run this afternoon. In previous contests for the' race Queen's Guard is the only horse that his prevailed .on- two occasions. C.. Jenkins, has ridden the winner, on three' occasions. The initial" meeting of tho Pony arid Galloway Racing Club takes place at Miramar on. Saturday next. :• The Mt ovent , commences at 2 p.m. ■ 1 ■ ■ ' ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ . Terapleton, Mata,.Lady Emma, . and Stepdancer are horses that havo ivori' the Dunediri Cup on two occasions. ..According to :the late Mr. A'. Higgie, Teinpletori was''tho.beit.little'horse; that eVer looked through-a' ' bridle. . '/. '. ■ "• The bookmaker's fee to bet at the. Te Aroha meeting, which takes place to-day, has been fixed at'. £5. W- Young wili have the mount on Playmate in the Hurdles jat. Woodville to-day, ," Wairarapa" writesThebookmakers as a whole .Hard'y behaved in a fair manner, to the Eketahuna Hack Racing Club in refusing to pay. a "reasonable fee for the privilego of betting. .. The .Club has no totalisator permit, and it has to. get its money somehow to rub along'; Bookmakers, if. they wero wise, would support' tho club, .which runs no 'totes,' because it is-the competition, of tho machine wjych absolutely forces money.froih the /.bookies'' * pockcts. .'. It' appears that at - Eketahuna and a few meetings' in the South Island, with no total-isator-permits, some of the;reputable"book T makers allowed themselves to be led.by tho nose by others of their brethren who. thought'' only of studying their own' selfishOno bookmaker stated after .the meeting that '..henceforth', ho' intended .tiract on his own initiative' arid to be bound to no party which 'might ;sofek to' 'disorganise the . financial policy of the racing clubs.''. .. ■ ■ , '- """.r-K DUNEDIN CUP DAY. (St TELEGBAPn—SPECIAL , COnRESPONDF,NT.) Dunodin, February. 18. ■ The .weather has now cleared, arid jjromisesi to be, fine for .Dunedin Cup day;' The probable starters and,'riders in the; Cup aro' Lapland, Bst.: 121b. (B. Yarr); Clanchattari, Bst. 9.lb.':(Jories); Jack Ashore,.Bst.- 21b. (W. Fletcher); Armamo'nto, 7s't; 111b. (R. King): Notusj 7st. 101b:. (J. Be'alo); Speculate," 7st. fib. (J. Wingfield); Red and Black, 7st.;slb. (W. Emerson).; Hilarity, 7st.-, 41b. (C. Hack or J. M'Cluskoy). ' . '