NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3081, 11 May 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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/ 'Genera] entries for the Great Northern Steeplechase Meeting and acceptances for the Great Northern Hurdles and Steeplefehase. and Cornwall Handicap close with filr. J, F. -Hartland to-night at 0 o'clock. . P. Mason will bring Bimeter north Jto contest the Manawatii Stakes, and the JUaltater horse will' 'then: go on to the JWanganui Meeting.- Bimeter ifi very well Jet prosent, hut he .has become Very fractious 6n the tracks, and frequently causes when he goes out for his mornjang tasks, though he isa. very traotable Jh6rse on race day. On Tuesday he stuck Sip badly, defying' all efforts to get him '.off, until a. stable companion went on Ho the track and jumped away with him. (Once under way 1 the Maltster horse settiledl down to his work all right, and he peeled'off nye furlongs in very attractive style.

. Mr. J. M.' Johnston, secretary of the iManawatu Racing < Club, stated last plight that prospects for. the Manawatii jMces next week.aro excellent. It may {interest the public, to .read, tho train .{arrangements for the meeting, a. full gist of , whjch are _ advertised in this jiSue.

Sir Ralph, who won,the loDg distance lihack race on each day at Egmont, is by IRokeby from led Rose. This is tho first '.time' he has shown any public form, ■IthOngh great things 1 were expected of him fan the spring. Ho is a. member of EmMet Pope's Pillcralie team. Henry Clay, [who followed Sir Ealpli homo on each pecasion, has been most consistent in mack events this season. Ho is owned by Mr. G. H. Gibson, a.popular steward .of the Egmont Club, and is trained by '.C. Jackson. • ■

H. Cutts is expected to pass through (Wellington to-day on his way to tho Manawstu Meeting. He is bringing the ifcwc-year old, Gamecock, also Brombleitye and' Good Hope.,. The two lastInameda'ie to be left in the north until the Otaki Meeting next month.

The Hastings sportsman, Mr. S. S. lOlliver, has enlisted, and he has sold the Signalman, mare, Kooya, to P. P. iNeagle, who trained her when .she was lacing so well last season.

•Yesterday, at the Hawera Meeting, ißewi Potofruind the task of conceding 671b. to Golden Grafton beyond him, jbut the black horse was able to defeat (the rest of the field, and his supporters saved their money.

The Trontham-trained Battle Song has ibeen scratched for the Linton Hack Welter Handicap at the coming Manawatu Meeting. Other scratching.? announced -are Kilmeedy, from the Sires' Produce fitaies, Sasanof, from tho Gold Cup, and ffeka, Cheloma, Shrill, and Sweet Corn from all engagements.

. Mr. .1. B.Reid.intended sending Kilflneedy to Awapuni to contest the Sires' Produce Stakes, but her trainer, F. D. 'Jones, scratched her. when the meeting .•was postponed: Kilmeedy is now a mc'mW of tho stable presided over by M. Hobbs. ..

Everything points to a verv successful meeting 'at Awapuni next week. The acceptances are unusually large, and proTiding the weather keeps' fine, the attendance should be quito as hig as in previous years. The tracks are reported 4-o be in perfect order. The patriotic funds shonld be swelled largely as tho iesult of'the meeting.

During the progress of the Hawke's ■BaT .T.C. Meeting, Mr. T. H. Lowrv dis■nosted of Beltane to Mr. H. M. Campbell. The rtri of Elysian will remain in charge of F. Davis until after the Otakl Meeting. Mr. Lo'wry has decided to reduce his string considerably, and'practically all the horses now in work are -to be offered for sale by auction, shortly, .if riot disposed of privately in the meantime.

Silver- Tongue has been giving his trainer a bit of trouble, and it has not yet been decided whether or not he will contest the Manawatu Sires' Traduce Stakes. •

Desert Gold has gone on the right way since the Wellinjjton Meeting, and is to fulfill hr engagement in the Awapimi Gold Cup.