THE TURK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2501, 30 June 1915, Page 4

THE TURK

NOTES AND COMMENTS [Bt GljckcozJ Acceptances for the handicap events on tho first day of tho \A r ellingtoii Racing Cinl/s -Winter Meeting close at !) o'clock on Monday night, linfcries for tho Trial Plato aro duo .it the (Same timo. The Gisborno Racing Club's Winter Meeting commences te.-morrow, and will be concluded on Saturday. P. E. Jones now taiins the pacing niftro Bequest. J. M'Lennan, wV> up till recently was private trainer to. Mr. W. J. Doyle, is at present living at 'Lceston, and is training a few horses for clients. Mr. \V. H. Thomson's Player Wheel,by Pilgrim's Progress—Catherine Wheel, has slipped twin foals to San Francisco. Player Wheel, lias been unfortunate in her stud career. She produced Countess Tolstoi to Finla.ud in 1911, but wns not mated that season,, -while sho missed in 1913 and 1911. Hova, xulio is owned in Auckland, but trained ify New Brighton, was made a staunch i'uvourito for the Waikato Trotting Cup, a position quite justified by his past performances. No doubt ho would ; have shown to betoter advantage had h'T6 trainer, M. Edwards, been holding the. reins ov6r him, as the son of Piratfj is a hard customer to drive. As it wvis, he failed wen to get a nlace in this or his subsequent essay in the Waiknt/j Handicap. Edwards was unable to ba present at ithe meeting owing to the sevious illness of his wife. Tha effect of the war on some of the , English raco meetings has been very marked. There was a considerable falling ojf in the attendances At Chester races the first week in May. The total" for the three days was 53,873, against 87.G33 last year. The takings were £90G3, against £13,887. The county enclosure bookings alone fell from X2IS7 to £611. "Deutscher Sport," of April 29, states that the May meeting at Hoppegarten was to begin on Whit-Monday. At ithe cineral mec-ting of the Union Club (Berlin) on Tuesday, April 27, Hen- U. von Oertzen announced that the Kaiser had assented to the proposed arrangements for holding breeding races at Hoppegarten. Tho totalisator would not be in use on tho first race days either there or at minor meetings. An earlier start was seemingly to be made in Hungary, with a five days', war race meeting at Alag, under the auspices of the Hungarian Jockey Club, beginning on May 17. The New Zealand jumper, Rurnalpi, had a very easy win in ithe hurdle raco at the Canterbury Park (Svdney) meeting on June 20. Tt was recently stated in an English paper that Mr.- Joel gave ,£SOO and Polymelia' stud foe (£9B in 1911) for Merry Agnes when she was carrying Pommern, who last season won two races of tho total value of £3411, and this season's Two Thousand Guineas worth over £7000. As Merry Agnes has also thrown a couple of other foals since Pommern, Mr. Joel was fortunate in securing her )n the terms mentioned.