NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2774, 18 May 1916, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

x 18l 'ILE.N'COI.I The Marlborough meeting will be concluded to-day. AVeights for the Otaki meeting are due to-morrow, and acceptances closp on Monday next. . The Awapuni trainer, E.. Watson, is working Glenorchy and Black Lupin tho revorso way on the tracks, so evidently the pair are to race at Ellerslio next month, ltaugitero has been placed by Mr. D. Buick, M.P., in T. George's care to prepare for future engagements. The colt is looking very fresh and well,_aud lias evidently greatly benefited by iiis spell. Mr. James Hawkins intends sending J-.ird Multilid up to the AVaikato shortly, and the Alultifid horse will.stand there next season. Mr. Hawkins has practically given up hope of the horse standing another preparation. Mr. AV. E. Bidwill, of Rototawai, is at present on a business visit to the city, lie lio.s sent the two-year-old Determination (All Black—Stepfeldt) to Sydney, to be prepared by F. . M'Grath for tlio A.J.U. Derby ami other races. The halfbrother to Hesitation is a big overgrown colt, so his owner decided to give him every chance. Liko most other owners with private training establishments, Mr. Bidwill is troubled with the shortage of boys. The programme for the AYinter meeting of tho Wellington Racing Club has been passed by the committee, and will be circulated shortly. The meeting will be a three-djys one this year, as Parliament has granted tho. club an extra day. Tlio programme is a good one, and no race on it is of less valuo than 150 sovs. The three big' steeplechases will be worth .61000, .£SOO, and <£400 respectively. Thero are two Hack and . Hunters' Steeplechases, each worth .£200; a Hack Hurdle race each day worth .£150; and three open Hurdle .Races wortli .£GOO, .£350, antd .£3OO. The Parliamentary Handicap, one mile and-a quarter, is worth .£4OO. In addition there is a Jumpers' Flat Handicap, a Selling Race, and the usual Hack Races. Altogether the programme is a very good one, and large entries may bo anticipated As Charihilla has-proved to be untrainable, her racing carecr has ended, and sho leaves the post for the paddock onco more. The bay mare was retired onco previously, but sho proved barren, and was put into work again. The well-known ex-New Zealand crosscountry horseman, Jack Stewart, who left Sydney with the Main Body, writing to a friend in AYellington, says, that ho was in charge o? the.horse depot, but expected to leave Egypt shortly. Stewart had two months in a hospital in England, but at the time of writing was quite recovered. Ho hopes to be able to eso the business through, and says he would ■not have missed it for anything. Stewart pays the boys who got off at Gallipoli became very proficient sprinters, and he thinks any of them could now out-paco Desert Gold. Tho progeny of Coronet were much in evidence at Hawera, Royal Chef (2), Astor/Veto, and Coropet winning Taces. Coronet, despite liis limited opportunities, has left some good stock in Taranaki. Generally speaking tho winners at Blenheim yesterday were easy to find, and stay-at-home backers had a very good time of it. The Porirua, horses were heavily supported, and the plums of the meeting fell to them.