NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 77, 24 December 1917, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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Those who intend being present at tho ] Manawatu Meeting on Boxing Day and the following day should noto that the nrst race each day will stnrt at noon. Patrons can reach tho course in time for the nrst race by taking passage by tho tram wiiica loaves Thorndon at 7.45 a.iq. The Auckland-owncd Penniless is to he a runner in tho Hack Hurdleß at the laranaki Meetiug on Boxing Day. a Henderson is to ride him. Penniless gave a vory good exhibition for a maiden at. Trentham in July, and if he has on the right w since ho should bo a thorn in the side of Zetes at the. AG\Y Plymouth Meeting. None of Sir Georgo Clifford's horses will race at the North Otago Jockey Club s Meeting, but if the weights Bint 2°™° .?/ them may make tho trip to laveroargijli whero the stable has never previously been represented. At Elleralie on Boxing Day racing will commence with tho Shortland Plate, one mile. Tho conditions of the race favour three-yoar-olde and Silver Tongue, runner,p in the 0.J.0. Derby, will only have to carry 7st. 41b. He will be ridden by 0. Emerson, and is likely to start a. firm favourite. For the Foal Stakes, six furlongs, informal has the most form to recommend him, but it is not at all certain .that he will be favourite, as the opinion is freely hold that at Trentham he/ was lucky to win, and since then he has only met second-raters in hie winning effOTts. LMaily, 80-Pecp and Finmark aro regarded as sure to finish in front of the Demosthenes colt.

The Robinson Handicap, seyen has drawn a bis field, but it a good | nnalitv one. Tho distance should • j Fabriquette a slow beginner, but a strong finisher. . There is not a better stayer in the tup field than Monelaus. fiat. 121b., and U> ou t>s he has a big weight he cannot be ruled out of the contest with a pound overweight for age. His stable companions, Seadown and johnny Walker, are both well fancied, and the niß.v 00 out favourite. Red .KiDoon, .ei. 21b., has done somo very ? ma jL tr jfr work during tho past week, and her chanoes are highly assessed. So too are those of Cynic, a rare bred one, at tne tail of the handicap. Fisher has been galloping *ery wel. on tho flat, and though he. has regularly fillen in hurdle Taces ho is ®uro to bo iVll fancied in the Grafton Hurdles, two fmproved as the mult of the racing he h Mie Railwa/Handicap, Bix furlongs, haj in Luniu has already dono, the fast lasssg® always had a reputation t but in his «flwto no SK&SFStew^ market.