NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2551, 27 August 1915, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

. [By Gmncoe.] AYaights for tho Dannevirko meeting are due txwjay, and pccoptances must bo made by Tuesday, August 31, at 9 p.m. Entries for tho Trial Plate are due at tlio same time. ' Mr. D. Ross was a passenger for Sydney by the Ulimaroa last evening. He in on a three months' trip, and will visit Melbourne and Brisbane. The Victorian horseman Joe O'Connell, who has been on a holiday trip to Hastings, where he formerly resided, returned to Australia, by the Ulimaroa last evening. - Harlequin will represent ,Sir Geo. Clifford in the AVanganuA Guineas, and Nones will do battle for Mr. G. D. Greeu\vood. Interlude is among the acceptors for the Electric Handicap at Marton oil Wednesday next. The I'ordell-trained lillj had a reputation as a galloper last seasou, but out of half a dozen starts she was only in a place once. She may do better this season. Two smart hacks in Glenroj; and Fortify are to be tried over a. distance at Marton next week. Tiio pair are nicely weighted, but neither- of them have yet shown form enough to warrant the suggestion that they would be capable cf extending Haskayne over ten furlongs at a difference of 211b. El Gallo's name does not appear amongst tho acceptors for the Marton meeting, though it. was given, out that he was.to make the trip. Chatto, who showed winning form at the Woodlands Hunt Club meeting last month, may'start favourite iu the Maiden Plate at Marton. The half-brother to Mataari and Aratiatia spurted silk on lour occasions last season, and only once was he out of a place. , G'ervulus who was bought at Hastings in tho winter for 400 guineas, but has ao far failed to make his new owner any return on his outlay, is to be tried over hurdles. , Nominations for tlio Avondale Spring Meeting close.with Secretary H. H. Hayr at 9 o olock to-night. C. Emerson has beep engaged to ride Lady Louisa and Peronilla in the Marton double. Royal Arms figures amongst the entries for the hurdle events-at tho AVanganui meeting nxt mouth. The two-year-old half-sister to Morning has been named Aftjrnoon. while a yearling full-brother to Hurakla- will race as The Hun. .(taring men in England are being hard hit by the stoppage of racing, and it is difficult now to . get anything like. theoriginal value of a house in the sqle ring. One Berkshire owner who had twentyeight horses in work told ar. interviewer that-ho had turned the lot out. Another owner told his trainer that ho could have a present of his nine horses, but the latter would not take them, so they, too, had to gq into the paddock. Recently an influential deputation waited upon Mr. W. Runciman, tho President of the Board of Trade, but though' that gentleman received them courteously lie had to tell them there wa9 absolutely no hope of more ; racing than the fortnightly meetr iligs at Newmarket, 'and he gave as . his sole reason the failure of the railway companies to spare the rolling stock necessary for the "specials" for races. The 6portjng papers aro now up in arms against the railway companies, and- are crying out for the nationalisation of the railways., At Newmarket the races are held alternately on opppsite sides of tlie Heath. The entries are very numerous; and forty runners in a race is quite common. One of tlie best cclts in Rumania is Bandit, a son of William Rufus and Best of Friends. On July 20 Bandit won tlie ten-furlong Spring Prize, for four-year-olds, with ,£IOO to the winner. Carry, ing top weight (lOst. 71b.), lie) won easily by five lengths, giving 91b. to the second and 181b. to the third. The previous week Bandit captured the Criterium, a mile and a half race, worth .£7OO, when ho won by two lengths from Erasin, the Rumanian Derby winner this year, First acceptances for the Now Zealand Ci\p are duel on Friday, September 3. Mr. A. Boyle's five-year-old mare, Flower of the West, bred in England, by Arizona—Flowerer, was shipped to Melbourne on Rriday last, and will visit Flying Fox's son, The- .Welkin. The gelding Bluestone is to be given a chance to earn fame as a 'hurdler, and was given his first lesson over tho small obstacles at EUerslio on Monday morning. Bluestone shaped satisfar-'orily for a beginner, liis showing being sufficiently encouraging to induce his owner to persevere with liim. " Th three-year-old filly .Loyal ATch is the only nomination from Auckland for the AVanganui J.C. Spring Meeting, her name appearing in the entries for t'lw Owen Handicap. The daughter of Marble Arch also olairns an engagement in the Wanganui Guineas. To Onga, the Great Northern Hurdles winner of 1914, has resumed work again at Ellerslie. tinder tho supervision of his owner, after a rest of somo months. There is some talk of sending Glcnmore to Randwick. and Flemington for the steeplechase events at Iho coming spring meetings.