NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2647, 18 December 1915, Page 12

NOTES AND COMMENTS

IBt Glencob.l Tlie attention of owners who intend Taoing their charges at the Stratford Meeting is drawn to the. closing of acceptances on Monday evening. • like attention ot owners and- trainers is directed to the closing of nominations for the Wellington Racing Club's Summer Meeting, to be held oil January 20, 22, and 24. Up to 9 p.m. on ■ Monday next, Mr. A. E. Whyte (secretary) will take entries for all events except the Trial/Plate and Disposal St akes. Weights for the Wairarapa Meeting are due to-day. Acceptances for tho -Marton Jockey Club's Summer Meeting close on Tuesday nest.. The tracts at *Trentham are very fast just now, and several horses working ' there have been putting up times which astonished their trainers. The Yaldhurst and Ckokebore stable 6 will have teams at the Wingatui Meeting, which is to be held on December 27° and 28. In the big handicap Adjutant will race for tho Chokeboro stables and Moulu, winner of the Hororata Cup, will carry Mr. G. L. Stead's colours. Several buyers have been after the, latter, but so far bo lias not changed stables. By the Maori, whidh. arrived yesterday the Rijjcarton trainer,. G. MurrayAynsley, with Warstep, Snub, and Wardancer, arrived on his way to Bllerslie. H. Cutts was also aboard with Plying Start, Good Hope, and San Sebastian. They went on J>y the Auckland express, which left at 2 p.m. R. O'Donnell, with 'llhe Toff, Wishful, Mountain Dream, and Halina went north by the night express. Jockeys A. Reed, P. E. Jones, ' and C. Emerson were also on the express. ■ Emerson 1 and Reed are returning for the second and 'third days of the Awapuni Meeting. G. Price will dispatch Nvstad and Bertrada to . Bllerslie on Monday night' 6 express in charge of A. Oliver. Price will follow on Wednesday, and after witnessing the first day's races 'he will return to the Mana;yatu Meeting. P. Buliock, tlie Australian . horseman, •who has ridden with considerable success in England for several years, has returned to Australia. Mountain Knight lias made such a good recovery tint it is now regarded as certain that ho will 1)6 able to do stud duty next season. Hoiiorine,. by Soult from Czarevna, therefore full-sister to Anna Carnovna, won tlie Welter Handicap, of £100, seven furlongs, at the Mentone Meeting on December 6. Honorine, who like her elder sister was bred, by Mr. Hugo Friedlander, was favourite. Adjutant, runnor-up to Meltchitoff in tho Mo6giel Handicap at Wingatui in the spring, is . nicely weighted in tike Otago Handicap on the same course on Boxing Day. He has 7st, Gib.,- which, is

only 21b. more than he defeated War* step lvTTn. f ~ The Earamu team for the Ellersue Meeting will oonsist of Hyttus, Centre, Eyginas, and Hydvus. l'iie first-named Is tlie tfest two-year-old in ; the stable, but 60 far he lias been very : unlucky in his races. ' '- ■ ;- " ■ <•. The jockeys vtho are at present in camp at Trentham 6pcak in* glowing terms ojthe life tTiere, and on no account .would, they care to change.' One of them, iv. Wilson, formerly a prominent cross-coun-try rider, has just .finished three months sick leave, and he is returning to the front with the Ninth Reinforcements. Despite the fact that she was hadly beaten by Square Deal in the Woodvillc Cup, Immer i 6 set to meet tlie Advance horse on 81b. worse terms iu the Marton Cup, and under the circumstances it will not bo surprising if she is sent to tho Wairarapa Meeting, and not to Marton. The two-year-old Sabana has developed : Boroness, and is unlikely to be 6een out ■ at any of the ilioMay meetings. Tlie ' naif-sister to Pavlova used to show a ' [ot of pacfl on the tracks, but sho was 1 not fortunate in her races. i Peronilla, formerly a well-known per- ■ former m these parts, is credited with ■ being one of the most improved animals working at Iticcarton at the present time. Rhe is to contest the Federal Handicap, Six furlongs, at Wingatui this month, and \s nicety weighted with 7lb. above tho minimum.