NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 81, 29 December 1917, Page 9

NOTES AND COMMENTS

fBY GUKCOB.I By Telegraph. Auckland, December 28. After'racing at tho Auckland meeting on Boxing Day Paraoa was roturnsd to New Plymouth., and hiß next appearance will bo in the Stratford Oup. Thia course was rendered necessary as his owner miseod the minor entries for tho Auckland meeting. ' . • Tho second day's racing; in connection with tho Auckland Baring Club's Summer Meeting will bo held at Elleralio to-day. In addition to the handicap events, tho ltoyal Stakes and Islington Plate will bo run. In tho milo event tho champion maro Deoort Gold will be seen undor Bilk but outeido of her stable 'companion Estland, who is to be gWen a race to assist his Derby preparation, there will be no opposition to Jlr. Lowry's mare. Tho acceptances ior tho handicaps are not as satisfactovy as oould hare been wished for, and the handicapper did not. meet with as good a, response as on the oponing day. The first event is the Bowen Handicap, six furlongs, and the starters > aro to be ridden by apprentices. Moßßmanj Woody Glen, and Jocular have all won over the distance. i . • , Tho place-getters in the Foal Stakes will again moot in tho Eoyal Stakes, and Hymosbra is to throw down the gauntlet to them. Bagby will ndo Demagogue. This two-year-old will bo the only one,to carry anything approaching his right W piihe'r will again be entrusted with a lot of support in tho Pons,onby Hurdles, as ■there is no' Sir Solo to wear him down to-day. M'Flinn may to-day adopt different tactics on the soft-hearted one, and Gluetanus, who was unlucky on tho opening day, appears to be tho only ono likely to trouble him. . , That good horso King Lupin is left at. tho head of tho Summer Cup Held, and on all Bides is regarded-as Temarkably fit. Vagabond may bo tho best of the otherß. ■ , , . Long Range and First Rain, the placegcttors in the Nursery Handicap, aro again engaged in tho-Criterion Handicap to-day. They were so much better than the others on Boxing- Day that they will probably carry most money to-day. Lord Kenilworth and Glendower, placeBetters in tho Shortlond Plate, are at tJw head of the handicaps in the mile and a half hack event. Tho latter is mootinc Lord Kenilworth on 61b. better terms. Tho disappointing Hopfleld is No. 1 in the Salisbury Welter, one mile. He and Waiutii, who finished clone up in tho Railway Handicap, may bo the public favourites. Tho latter will havo tho oervices of S. UelaV

Mr. J. L. Henrys has declared the following rchandicaps for tho Stratford Meet« ing:-Oup,-Alteration, 7st. 81b.; Douglas Handicap, Inah, Set. 61b.