*-1 NOTES AND COMMENTS. /■;

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 179, 24 April 1908, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By-Gmsxcoe.] - : . v . • WAipuna. .who> ran -second in the City ~ ? Handicap it' Ramhvick on Wednesday, is engaged m .thovFinal ••Handicap,- .one° muo and a -quarter, to-moH'ow. afternoon.-.. Ho . ; .- ( • also • claims • ail engagement, m tho principal ieyent'' at;; tlio .©ity.- -Tattprsall's Meeting tho ...- •following -^aturtlay. ' " 'Harrv pair, Signor and Cnris-j 1 : 'sijnaj'! arrived - from the South yesterday •'morning,'• and went on.■ to. Ticntli.llll. .• .;• • ;Th'o' : Karatau team also arrived from tho • Canterbury. meeting} .and. went to 'Lionthani ..•.,, -, jby"tho train. Full Rate was also , • .• ,bomid for'Trenthiiin.- • ■ 'STCWtjiill,-wlib'.ran unsuccessfully at Rtc-Icartpiy.-will to- shipped ho,me : to Blenheim. ;ji| team for Trentham ; •.;; 'Will arrive Oil Saturday morning .'• VMf;W/^M'Doualdj..owner of Aeolus,' : -j has written to tho Wellington Racing. Club asking 'for aii explaiiatloiv of the manner in \ i iwhich 'this litirse has' beeir handicapped m , ? the" First'' Hurdles: :, Aeolus has to concede •51b. to Mahoe. 81b. to Plajmate, 91b. to iCacliuca, ami lulb. to Aorangi. :M' :! ,'tliQ owners : nt the.. Wairarapa . ; V . j ! "Meeting-' entered-• a written piocest ngaiilst : 'the - liandicapper appointed to adjust the . 'Weights for .the secoud dttv, but the stowards -very rightly, refused' to cntortnin it. . -The ~ - people who set the 1 protest going would no , • 'douW, beVvvery surprised, possibly ; annoyed, , at the excellent responso .which followed iMr.Thomas's.:adjustments, ...... Yesterday,' Lbongana and. Te Aroha L*ere .scratched>.for,,all. -engagements at tho Mcllirigton • Ea'cing Club, s Meeting. . .. •" : i All the; flat- rM - the first-day of: tho . ■ ■< : Trentham spccial names, such as the AViilw'etu 'Handicap and tho Siherstreahl .Hiick,-'but , tlu< jumping event is niorely'-"called the Fust Hurdle Handicap. ....... - . iTlib : writer-suggests that this race should ; ■he called'tho Mahoo Hurdles. j■■ ' ■ WESTLAND RACING CLUB'S MEETING. •i ! (r-v association.) * r. ■ ' ■■■■.• -.'■■■ HoliitlUa, April S3. . ' for the We'stlaiid Racing - Club s. Easter : : ; meeting to-day splendid .weather prevailed,-;, i-V?;? and there"was a, good attendance.; Iho fol- ~. .. ; lowing are the results:— OPEN HANDICAP.—BIossbok, 9st., 1; Numtt; 7st- 121b.; 2;'Freeland, Sst. 10lb., 3. . , ; Also started : Abaydos, 7st. 131b.. !i .. -TRADESIUSN Park, ; 9st. 1, Moetoropuku,'Bst.-71b., 2; Hou.vhn-. : ■• hum, Bst-*7lb., 3. , Also st-aifced:. Ahauva,. ■ 71b. ; lloyul Colours, 7st 9lb. , • INTRODUCTORY TROT.—Romany Rye, , ■ Usee, !; Glcti. scr., 2; Seddon's Terrace, 19sec„ 3. Thirteen otheis started. * AUTUMN HANDICAP— Adna.'Ost., 121b., I: First View, 7st. 131b., 2;,Sylvene. Sst.,, ....-,-.•■ 3. :'Also started: Ruapehu 9st. lib., Tsitsi- . liar Bst.- 41b., Freeland Bst. , A good raco... Tinie, 2min. 6 2rssec. " i ' BOKOUGH HANDICAP TROT— Mawhera, . - ' ]; Quicksilver,- 2; Victory, 3. Also stoited: i Richard E. : , Jean Allerton, Romany Rye. , - -' HIGH WEIGHT HANDICAP.—RuapeIm,: ; ? 10st., 1; Moetoropuku, Sst, 10,1b., 2; ;W'aira-y* rapa, Sst. 91b., 3. Also started: Hamua Bst.' •• ■ 41b. ,i ' Railway- HANDlCAP.—Montague,' 7st; . •-121b., 1; Almwft, 7st. 41b., 2; liarley; Bst. ' • 1 ' ' Gib.,- 3. ...." •/ :' . . " . ,'.'Profossors' golf" is a thing by itself; as a clasa they are the worst player? to ho met with on tho links. Next to piofossors, / artists, actors, and mUsioians aro the worst ; ' i players,. while editors and newspaper proprietors are only a shade . better ; curiously " > efioughj authors; and bboli'publishcis aiovoftcn quito respßctable;—Mr. Garden Smith quoted by "Golfing lUustratod."-' ' • '