NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3006, 17 February 1917, Page 3

NOTES AND COMMENTS

; IBt Glencoe.l Tlie Dunedin and Hamilton meetings will be concluded to-day. Marsa, winner of tlio Anniversary Han- ■ dicap at Wingatui yesterday, was runnerup to Miss do Val in the Publicans' Handicap oil Wednesday, Sho lias been very , unreliable in the past, but in the two I races mentioned she acted generously. Owners should bear ill mind that acceptances for the first day's handicaps at t\ anganui close on Monday evening. ; Acceptances for the Bannevirke meeting and entries for the' Maiden and Trial Handicaps are duo with Secretary Taklo 1 on Monday next. In the Hack Hurdles on the seoond day at Woodville Paramnhone always looked liko a winner and eventually scored by a considerable margin. Sir Fisher was just beaten on the post for third money, and for not riding his mount out A. Lawrence was fined Samisen followed up lier Blenheim success. by appropriating the Domain Handicap at Dunedm yesterday. The Birkenhead mare carried Dst. and beat a useful held. The runner-up was the Soult horse ClyneTish, who has shown no form a considerable time. ■Kilmeedy, winner of tlio City Handicap iat Wingatui, is a full sister to Killena, and races in Mr. J'. B. Kcid's colours. She has shown promise for.some time and her win yesterday was quite expected. Sho is trained by I?. B. Jones' at Eiccarton. The tax on dividends on the opening day of the Wingatui meeting amounted to .£IOB 3s. Gd. At tlio Dunedin meeting on Wednesday the well-known rider, H. Lowe, received two falls, but fortnnately neither of them were serious. ' . Tlle trainers drawn in the last , ballot include: George Price and S. Watson. Awapuni; W. Quinton, Gisborno: J. A. Hennah, Hastings; C. Millen, Normanuy; Paul Holmes, liiccarton; W. P. Ihurston, Oamaru; and G. A. Cameron, iiiverton. Among the jockeys ]?. W. Ellis is tlio only ono from liiccarton, but there is a_ good list from other parts of the Dominion including: A. V. Clark, L. Morris, E. C. Kae, and W. A. Eyan, Auckland; J. H. Dixon, C. M'Kay and m' i*- all -on. Hastings; It. E. Manson and rV S' ol| tague, Palmcrston North; C. Cochrane, Hawera: A. Crerar. Wellington; H. L. Pickett. Otnki; - E. A. M'Coll, Buncdin; R. H. Ellis, Mdsgiel; and J. Wallis, Southland. At South Australian Tattersall's meeting this month. Dr. Bennett won the Handicap Trial Stakes with Hedonist *(obligado—Cyrcnaica). The owner named [ ! ] as raced several,Aii'ekl'a'nd-bred horses in the State named with success. , Plymouth was made a good favourite ill the Hurdles on, the opening day of the Buncdin meeting, but the Grafton gelding jumped very badly and was not dangerous at the finish. Mr. Harvey Patterson has sent two D i°™, of ,. hls llor ? es to F - M'Manemin, at Ellerslie ,a colt J>y Mcnschilcoff—Lady j fi! i i a v Monschikoff—Soult ■"thol, both of which are two-year-olds. Colonel Soult was shipped to Wanganui on Wednesday to fulfil his engagement in the Wanganui Cup. As F M'Manemin was unable to make the «c! il s elu ' V 1 ** accompanied the son or bonlt, and will superintend liis wind\"a I ' l , l E a^'°Ps ' So far no rider has been ■r T : rl y - on " a .R e ' l for Colonel Soult, but ii J. O'Sltea is not required for one of Mr. Lowrys he will have the mount. borne amusement was caused at To Kurt i on Saturday by the efforts of a rider in the Farmers' Plato to maKe l\is weight. No lead bag was available so a sugar bag was secured, which was filled with sand and tlio difficulty overcome 1 Sir /Geo. Clifford has V remarkably good record in connection with the Duiiediu Champagne Stakes, which he won on..Wednesday with Gamecock. He has won the rape eleven times in all, eight of llio victories having been gained in the past ten years. F. 10. Jones, who lode Gamecock- has ■ to his credit eirrlit' wins in ton year?. . W. Malier, the famous jocker, who died 111 England recently, left property of (lie [ value of ~CS!I;W Os. lid., (he net' personality being £J!ISS Is. 7d. Maher left the ■ wholo of his proporfcr la his Tvife. The scratching of Bisogno from all oir- ; sragenients at the Wanganui meeting may : be taken to indicate that the Bezonia'n ' horse is to be eased up for a spoil. His racing in Taranalci cerlainlv seemed to suggest that live lloyal St.ikes winner had trained oft. aiiil no doubt a respite fromthe ' I'ackfS will give liinv a chance of showing good form acnin in n le autumn.