NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2836, 29 July 1916, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

!By The acceptances received! for the big events at! liiccartoii are unusually goou. There is still' another payment to be made for each lace, but it looks like:-re-cord fields. At present twenty-three remain in: the Steeplechase, and the same number in the Hurdles, and thirty-two lit'the Winter Cup. ! No .doubt several owners made the' ■ first payment on the principle that it is easy to get out later on, B'u't impossible to get in. This will mean a fair reduction iii the size of the field in the.mile. A feature of the acceptances is that Kooya' ha?' been paid up for in -botli the .-'Winter Cup- and the Grand National Hur'dles. Tliose who rushed in to support the mare for the jumping event will not. be pleased, with this, as they ; doubtless expected her to liaye. a race o'ver the. battens in tlio Trial Hurdles on the opening day. The ,staffer!! A', thp Cup'will ho doubt come up to the average of prijvious years, and twenty-five or twenty-six runners, may be •looked lor. The lvaramu stable has two .representatives in. the Steeplechase, viz., Vascular and Idealism, but one of them niay drop out at : the next payment. Crib, who is reported 'to be suffering from strangles, has been paid up for in the Hurdles. There is a final payment lor. each race due on Friday, August 11.

T'hu' Winter Clip candidate' Awahou, i'idden by 'A: .M'Donald, wan ?al|opwl. nix furlongs, with iloulu (light.'boy) at Wauganui on Thursday. Moulii was going well in front at the end of ilie gallop.. On Thursday morning the ..jumpers. New York and Golden March were schooled on the W'anganui track. Tlio former jumped . a round of the big fences by .himself, and gave a good display, while. Golden March soho»led over the hurdles' wiih Vladian, and both wont well.■ ■ • _At the Brackenfield Hunt meeting oh Thursday Castirou linielieil first in llw hurdle race, but the stake ,waS taken from . him for crossing Trireme,' and....thc latter was placed first, and. Castirou second. ' The- imported'""Demosthenes, who is standing thin season at a fee of .3(1 guineas has already had his list cloned. •Jiid sulKcriptimiH are now Iv.'iiig booked for the following season. . Mr. G. I'. Donnelly decided' to only allow.the Desmond horse to take-liiteen ouNkle niaren and more than half of this number were booked .liLSt • It has been decided that Blackall will pot be taken to Sydney, owing, no doubt, to the exalted opinions the haiidicajmers the other sido have of the All Blnck gelding. T. Quinlivan leaves with the r»inainder of his tpam neit week. 'Tlio local owner, llr. H. Kirkdale, is (jiving up racing, and his mam Immei (Martian—Everlasting) is to be sold. The withdrawal of Morton from tho Grand National Steidcchasa was rnndernj nccessery on acciimit of sorencsu having manifested itself on the old gelding as the'result of his fhll in the "Weilia'stton Steeplechase.

'While schooling at Wanga'nui this weok tin. hurdle gelding Gls-n Nevis, in J. Peachey's stables, overreached and cut himself rather budij. This is bud luck ; for his owner, as the gelding was just 'K-*r another #<'.c\d<)Vt

Xl'r. James Bull, of Hunterville, l-e. evilly purchased Pitronus with a view 10 mating hiin with a few picked mares of bis own. He had bad luck, however, lor Pationu?, who has a number of useful representatives racing, dietVliist week jf colic. '

The annual meeting of the Masterton .Tlucing Club was held on Wednesday evening. '.I her" was a record attendance, and Mr. C. l'\ Vallance presided. .The following nflicers were elected for the ensuing yoir:--I'atron, Mr. A. W. Cave; president, Air. C. I'. Vallance; vice-presi. dents, Messrs. .1. lorns, .1. JJacara, G. If. •Yates, • and • 1) H'Lr.cMan; stewaids, Messrs. C. J. Ilennett, W. Cooper, P. 11. Harrison, Frank Dorset, D. K. Logan, fi. C. Cooper, Hurl) Doughs. R. Cooper, F. Evans, A.'-J. AVeloli, N. Nee, and \V. D Watson. New rules drafted by the outgoing, stewards were' inlopted. The stewards were cut'ioris'.'d tu e-Vieiid i'3ooo in stakes for the ensuinir * sroson. It was decided, on the motion of llr A. G. Piliner, to recommend the stewards In place on the propramine a race in which iiorseu are to be ridden only by apprentices'.