NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1939, 23 December 1913, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

fGr Glenxoe.] Acceptances for tho Wairarapa Summer Sleeting are due with Air. E. A. Laerv at 5.30 p.m. to-night. The local Telegraph Office closes half an hour earlier. A large contingent of horses engaged at the Manawatu Meeting are being railed from Trcntham to Awapuni this murniiig. Mr. William Ilall. secretary of tho Wanganui Jockey Club, has been m Wellington sinco Saturday, lie is on his "way to tho West Coast, where he will spend the Christmas vacation. Mr. C. Paterson, a steward of tlie Wanganui Jockey Club, lias been appointed deputy-stipendiary for the holidays. and will officiate at tho West Coast meetings. ; Mr. T. H. I-iowry, who has been detained in Wellington during the last few weeks, returned to 'Napier yesterday. It is unlikely that ho will bo present at tlie Auckland Cup ■ meeting. F. D. 'Tones was yesterday granted a trainer's license by tho Wellington District Committee. H. Pritchard, J. Walker, T. jU'Cann, and H. W. Clay i also received similar licenses.

improvements to tho cotirso have hesn completed. The hill at the six furlong 3 is now removed, and tho track banked at that turn. The club intends to subsequently shift the seven furlongs post, and to carry it out to the preseut saddling paddock, lhis will give a-ijfcrnipht of a furlong before a turn is reached. No account-, of tho track work at Ellerslie was published in Wellington yesterday, but it is considered certain that both Potoa and Beldame acquitted themselves well, for there was a run on tin's double all day. One authority states that Potoa badly defeated Soa Pink in a trv-out over 12 furlongs. It is.considered certain that F.XDayis Will again take Soltano to Randwick for tho Autumn Meeting and the Australian Jockey Club Meeting. E. J. Rao*is the only trainer with two strings to his bow in. the_ Auckland Cup. He will start both Blenot and La Reuia. All public form points to the latter as the hotter of the pair, but there are those who look' to Bleriot to finish in front of,the roan mare, and it is stated that recent track woik indicates such a possibility.. The chief attraction. at the Auckland Meeting will, of course, bo the Cup, but tbo Derby, Foal Stakes, antl Royal Stages should all be splendid races. In tho Derby strong opposition will be against Cherubini, in Rinaldo, Bonny Helen, and Warstep.- In this quartet alone there is the niat-eiial roi a stirring battle, and fast time will 110 doubt be put up. The Koal Stakes will seo all the best two-year-olds, with the exception of Downhatii, under silk, and the best of them will no dor.bt oppose Soltano and Warstep m tlie Royal Stakes. That smart performer. Gigandra, carried lOst. 1016. and won the Clyde Stakes at on December If The performance was all tho more nientorious, for he defeated a large held after starting on the extreme outside. The six-year-old son of Ibex is generally considered the best horse in Australia up to a mile. His performance draws pointed attention to tho chaiiccs of Soltano in the Railway Handicap at- Ellerslie, for. the crack Soult colt accounted for Gigandra in tho Spring Stakes at Rosehili in September. • Train arrangements in connection with the Manawatu Racing Club's Summer Meeting are advertised :n this issue. A special train will leave Wellington for the racecourse at 7.10 a.m. on Boxing Day, and, in addition to this, tho club has arranged with tho Railway ;Oe.pdrtmeht'to havo both -mail. ; trains stopped at' Av/a'pilnl to yet down passengers. Oil the return journey ft I special train will leave the racecourse at 5.45 p.m. 011 Boxing Day (Friday) and also on Saturday, arriving 111 Wellington at 10 D.m.