NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 31 July 1915, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[By Glencoe."] Mr. F. Crossley, M.E.C.V.S., visited Tientham yesterday to attend to a case at Endeavour lodge. Ho. treated the Boniform—Effort yearling, which was in a bad way with blood-poisoning. Warstep is galloping as well as ever at Eiccarton. F. E. Jones has been engaged to pilot Slogan m tho C.J.C. Winter Cup. John Barleycorn will have tho services of. J. Campbell in the saddle at the Grand National Meeting. Should Jeannot be a runner in tho Winter Cup ho will bo ridden by' J. Beale. At Eiccarton on Thursday, Banksia registered tho best gallop of the morn-; ing by skipping : over .sis ' furlongs- :in lniin. 15 3-ssec. on the grass. "Templar" says that, all things considered, it was an attractive piece of work on the part of . tho Winter Cup candidate. At the-annual meeting of the Ashburton Trotting Club this week, the chairman, Mr. H. F. Nicoll, announced that Mr. James Heseltiue had generously given a twenty-guinea cup to be added to the stakes in tho Cup race at the next' Boxing Day meeting. Tho Auckland horsemen, J. O'Shta, C. Browne, and E. E. Brown, were at the Taranaki Hunt Meeting, on Thursday. Hugh O'Connor, who suffered painful injuries when Master Leslie fell with him at Ellerslie early last' week, has. made such a rapid recovery that he is .about again. The Gisborne horses engaged at the C.J.C., Grand National Meeting reached Eiccarton on Wednesday morning. A. Oliver, who is to ride Glenrov in thi Winter Cup, leaves for Christchurch by, the ferry steamer to-night. He had been offered the mount on Tripoli at the Pakuranga Hunt Club's meeting to-day, and would have accepted but for the,fact that he was required to leave for the south to-night, in order to ride in the training gallops at Eiccarton.

R. Cameron, the ox-New Zealand jockey, who has been a resident of Vio toria for somo years past, has just comSleted a couplo of months' trip to the lominion, and leaves for Melbourne by tho Mokoia this afternoon. He takes with him a filly by Gold Crest from Heatherlea (sister to Mahutonga). Cameron's cousin, C. Jl'Donald, who is also going to Melbourne, brought the filly from Levin, laat evening. Tho South Island trotters, which had been competing at the AVaimate Plains meeting at Hawera. oil Wednesday, were shipped to Lyttelton by tho ferry steamer last night.

Discussing llio proposal that the Government should take over all totalisator fractions during the currency of the war instead of increasing, the present taxation on racing clubs, tho Dunedin writor "Sentinel" says: "When considering this matter those interested should bear in mind that racing -clubs have voluntarily contributed in a liberal manner to the war funds. The fairest method of taxing clubs would probably be to leave tlie matter in the hands of the Racing Conference, and. allow* ih© latter to Ccill upon, tho clubs, each and. every one of tnem 4 according' to what it is deemed they could afford. Tho Racing Conference know tho .financial strength of each club and the nature of their liabilities, and are thus in tho best position to make whatever call is required.'"

FIXTURES. July 28—Paliiatua R.C. Annual. ' July 29—Woodlands Hunt Steeplechase. July 29—North Taranaki Hunt Steeplo- \ chase, ... Aug. 10, 12, 14—C.J.C.-Winter. Sept. I—Marton J.C. Spring. Sept. 2—Rangitikei Hulit Annual,