THE TURF

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3179, 1 September 1917, Page 12

THE TURF

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fBY GLENCOB.]

Entries for the Otaki Meeting close on Monday next. Acceptances for the Dannevirkc Meetings aro due with Secretary H. Taklo at 3 o'clock to-night. Merry Lad. Diavolo, Ucwanga,.and Hythread, who have been delayed at Hiccarton waiting for a boat to take them north, passed through here on Thursday. It is reported that the Wanganui District Committee will shortly have a couple of owner-trainers before them to ask some questions relative to the training of the horses owned by them. W Young, who had a bad fall off Rnnza just prior to the National Meeting, hopes I io be well enough to ride at the Dannevirkc Meetings on September 12 and 13. The aged gelding Merlon, by Merriwee— Rose Seaton, has been taken in hand hy f H. Gillelt, after having a spell for several months. He only started once last season, but- will be got ready for another campaign on the West Coast at the cud of the year. Arrangements have been made' for F. Gray to rido John Barleycorn in the New Zealand Cup. If the Sarto gelding gets through his preparation without interruption he will have a big circle of admirors for the two mile race, in which he finished just outside a place last year. .Sleight of Hand has been allowed to forfeit his engagement in the Marton Handicap, but iio figures in the eutries for the Jumpers' Flat Handicap at Danncvirke. In assessing biin as beiug within 41b. of Multiply and the equal of Bon Revo in the. Danncvirke race, the haudicappcr has formed a rather exalted opinion of the •Mystification gelding's abilities on tho flat. Some of the Ohokeboro Dodge two-year-olds have been suffering from slight colds lately, and they have not. been asked to do much work. They a,re all on the mend, however, so that they will probably be ready for serious business again next week. The most forward of them will probably be wanted for the Dunedin Jockey Club's Meeting, early in October, while others can certainly be marked off to compete at the Wellington Racing Club's fixture. . Art went home to his owner's station In North Canterbury on Monday. In hi 6 place Mr. G. Fulton sent down a two-year-old, by Martian-Edna May. She is a weil-grown, shapely youngster, and at present, she is under the care of L. Hagcrly, who will break her in before R. Longley takes charge of her. The well-known-jockey, R. Young, who has been assisting to overthrow the Huns in France, is returning home invalided. He is at present in Sydney awaiting a boat for the Dominion. Mr. W. H. Gai-sford's horses Merry Jack, Oroivlturst, and Astrophel aro under orders to race at the Marton Meeting next Wednesday. >