NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 151, 20 March 1908, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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Pony racing at Miramar' to-morrow afternoon. ■ .53.»-;Tc- . The Nelson weights appear, in this issuo. Acceptances aro due next .Wednesday. Nominations for the' Wellington* meeting and for' tho ■ Wairarapa^'iffeiftirig?'c'lfl§6' J,H 'ou ! •' : St. Ludlam started •tis"ico-a.t.,tho.' Opunakc, meeting,-but ran witlibut';sijccess. : r . t ; . .To Kaiiiui ; had badiluck ?on vtiio.-secp.nd' day, at' Napier •Park,"'"being'"carried. : wido by- a riderless horsb." :! ' \ • Mr. J, . Bull,, who rec'feffitljt pii&ivased'?)awy l Paul, "was not long. in ,: gettihg purchase money back, as-tlio eh&-hiut'imhro: .W9ll a£loo raco at Qpun.akq, oiVtSfc. ~P,atrick's ,Day.;;, : She' was E., ; Barlow, and ran .tho: mile and'i 14 2-ssec. . f - 1 -: ;'s

F. ' Carmont,-. of Levin, Resent 'an inraato of the Otaki Hospital,'-.whero?]ib swill probably have• to .undergo-.aUv.-opei>itionvfor .appendicitis. I, siiicirgly .h' i ppe„„t<) i bear, shortly that:lie,is gfcbd health, "again. ??• 1

:; Taura • has; gone " wrong, l antl was 1 not,started,at tho'Napjer Parkf-wikitingif/ ! 'J;Tho ' Opunake ,mfe»Mngjl..feld:Settiißl»./'Pat-. ,nek's Day, was a 'distinct 'tucoesjpV;the. attendance being good !,9nd, v tlio,. l ,tota)isato'r. turnover correspondingly" lii'ge: ■ : f'Tlid , : priii- ! ' cipal .event on' tlib'ipro'grainnid-ivas'Hyoif'by. ;oaisy ■ Paul, (St.; Paul—DaiSy.> Clippbr)V-'/wh6. easily beat Somali:

~- Flying Wind (Musketry—Poatariiwha) won-.tho. Electric Plato,,^and',Lantern : (Jjaiv star—Wapiti maro) woii''the' "\VeU4p r Handicap-. ; Silver'.Lead, was start'od ; afterndon. Hp ran',second to Burton;'(St. ( Clements—Waihi) in. the Klyihgi Handicap: and won tho St...Patrick's-.Handicap,'.-.beat? ing Billow.- 11. M'Namara *ljad - tli'o.i.iijpuflt. on both occasions. : '"?t

, Mudgeo fell in;tho hur'dl'qraco ai Opiiriako 'and C. Cochrano got 4'- severe 'sMakin'g;' but. •"■'as not seriously injured.' W. •: Price," :*who jodo two winners 'during-fthe afternoon]} wjisi tho, most successful; ..pipping.;;

Jockey F. p. Jones is ' among tho candi-, dates at tho swimming^cariiival^a^: Moloch,, who through . getting;'• into. a vVfre. jfbu'co' .''before" ■tho Warigarini'-meeting, l 'is ti6Trig :, s3mo'' Wfr good exercise at Opaki; tortained good hopes of;, Mauser's > ;s.on' l aimefc,' -ing tho.Wanganui Cup, n but,io;r his ac,eldest, and if ho is in "anything like fettfe. lie shoVild bo a proposition worth 1 considerin|P f aFtho' Mastertoiv meeting.' Mdloch- isWat-- 1 present a possible .New candidate.

Aberration, who has had a regular run of ill-luck- sinco..tho Taulien>nikau. ; m<;eting; is 'pleasing'.his .supj»rtere e siil£hß.!Crack' work' at; Opaki, and, if fortfltie.'wily treats him fairly, ho is oxpected to matdrialise'.to somo extent at tho meetings-next week, v.'.

.. Mr: -. J.' E. ; Henrys returned ££rom: >Napier. last evening, and leavc|i|ojr'.T l iina«tfl»fJ4Pß-t ;da.v night. After tho Timaru- Meeting 'ie ; will make known his t : h,<s C.J.C. Great Easter and Great Autumn 'Handicaps. .■>&&.

i The South CanterbupyjiJockoy'dub-'have l •every reaspn to bo pleased-. witlV.thei'acoopi:-;-; ances received,for next,.\yeek!s;,-.moQting;,as-they, are • exceptionally, large.: Sixteen Jjorses. remain' in the .Timaru"Ctip, r and i 'th6': , ■dent's Welter arid tho "Flying Handicap have filled even better. With/lino weather, tho meeting , will probably > be, r a .recoi;d,,oiicr. n, the history of the Club.'. . j.'VjV ?'