NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2526, 29 July 1915, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[Br Glencoe.] The Woodlands Hunt Club's Steeplechase Meeting takes place on the Pahiatua racecourse to-day. _At Eiccavton on Tuesday the Grand National Stceplecliase favourite, Morning, did a serviceable gallop "over a mile and a quarter, wliicli occupied. 2min. 19sec. A' southern writer says that the horse palled up well, and is evidently in good racing trim. \ Mr. Gerald Stead's Australian purchase, Plymouth, ran into a barbed wire fence at his owner's placo nt Amberley, and -will not be a starter at the Grand National Meeting. It appears that it was the big log fence close to the abattoirs that claimed the New Zealand-bred .Tack Ashore in the Steeplechase at Elomington on July 14. Ho misjudged the taka-off, fell, and broke his neck. Jack Ashore ran at Morphetville in the early autmnn, and ho was unplaced in the Great Eastern' Steeplechase at Onkaparinga on Easter Monday. Jockey J. Olsen was to be in attendance at the Birchw'ood Hunt Meeting yesterday. Ho made the trip to Southland in order to be present at a social to be held at Nightcaps this evening. This smoke concert and social is to be held in conjunction with the presentation of whips donated by Messrs. J. Griffen and-T. Moncrieff respectively, to the most, successful horsemen for the season in the.home province on the flat and across country Olsen, it may be mentioned, has' secured ono of the whips three, years in succession. : Weights for the. minor events on the first day of the Canterbury Jockey Club's Grand National Meeting are due to-mor-row. Ngatiruamii will not be a starter at the Waimaie Steeplechase Meeting to-day. Be will therefore have no opportunity of competing in a raco over the big country until the Grand National fixture next month. • Mnltiply's defeat at Pahiatua was predicted in eome quarters, and the horse is sure to go out of favour now for the Grand National Hurdles, in which he will be competing against several well-seasoned