NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3039, 28 March 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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The 'autumn meeting of the Wellington Racing Club is best known as tho Thompson, Handicap meeting. The principal , handicap is ran over a mile course, and this year carries 750 eovs. stako money. The big , handicap on the second day is worth -500 sove. There is also the Trentham Gold. Cup, of 1000 eovs., two miles, .to engage the attention of owners of weight-for-age horses, and it is to be hoped that Desert Gold will be opposed by The Toff, : Saeanof, and Kilboy. Entries for.all events close at 9 p.m. on'JTriday.

As has been the case ever since tho war started the profits from the autumn meeting jof the Manawatu Raoing Club will this year go to patriotic funds. The programme is the -usual complete affair, and is well worthy-pf perusal.by owners. -Entries for. all events close'on Wednesday next, April i.'. . . •: News'by this week's Sydney mail states that the West j Australian owner, Mr. S. P. Maokay, is negotiating for tho purchase, of the Shipley stud on tho walk-in.-walk-out principle.

Several writers lately have roforred to Waimatao as being eired by AohiUes. ■This , is an error, and tho comet breed-ing-is by, tho imported' Bozonian from Punawai. i

Tie Boniform maro, Gold Painting, has been purchased by Mr. Keith White, of itawke'e Bay. She was ono of Mr. W. G> Stead's Australian team in the spring, biit did not faro well on the trip. Tho Hawke'e Bay maro Sraha ftrand hoa' loeon under 'veterinary treatment lately, suffering from ft severe attack of inflammation of tlio bowels and kidneys. She is still far from i>ll light. ■

Multiply has changed hands, and is now' owned by' the Hawko's Bay. sporlaman, Mr.' T.-E. Wholch. ,' Ho will probably be given n good trial .over Mi-dles after he has had a spell. .

drib figures in both the hurdle events at the G.J.C. meeting, but it is reported that the South Canterbury champion has not done much of a preparation in consequence .of the hard etate of the tracks. A' commissioner acting on behalf of Mr. Harvoy Patterson, at tho recent yearling sales in Melbpurne, bought tho colt by Comedy, King-Rattler. The youngster will go into F. M'Manemin» stable at Bllerelie. Battler is the dam of Vicoildmiral, who won tho New Zealand Cup of 1911. ' ' ' ' The weight-for-age- form during. tUo recently-concluded Viotorian Carnival did not work out well, and on the third day, when two hot favourites in-Woorak ami Patrobas failed to materialise, some .big wads were dropped by tho professional backers, who laid heavy odds on them. Odds on chaiices in tho past have ruined many big plungers, and the wise backer to-day looks on when hot favourites aro raoing. Admiral Rous once said, that bifi pluDgers wero a nuisance to racing, and what applied'so years ago. does so with equal force now., Mr.' L. jr. isitt, M.P., in a recent lettor on- horee-raoing in war time, referred to racehorses as "long-legged, W gutteo, areenic-insspired weeds. Tine ilrew a rotort from Mr. E. S. Lnttrdl,-part-owner of Kilboy, who said-.-H Mr. teitt or some of his wealthy anti-racing friends, care to test their theory 1 am willing to eelect five of the eaid longlegged, herring-gutted, nreenic-mßpircd 'weeds, and to race them against any five 'non-thoroughbreds' selected by Mr Isitt, or any expert that he may appoint, over a dietaucc of 100 miles, with 12 Btono in the saddle, ■ and, furthermore, I agreo that the , herriDg-gutted, etc., weeds shall rive Mr. Isitfe selection five miles start. Should the arenic-inspired ones fa[ to win I shall be pleased to hand over M) guineas to tho Red C™ss Fund » At a meeH'n" of the committee of the wtnganTMoy Club the question;of the curtailment or of »« ■Wist 1 and that i£ should not be by that date the question nf fhe absolute suspension of all raoing substantial Curtailment thereof should bo-Mriously considered..