NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 141, 4 March 1918, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

[BY GMNCOE.I The Akaroa Meeting will bo held at Motukarara to-morrow. Tho Goro Meeting takes place on Wednesday. The Nelson Jockey Club will hold its annual meeting on Wednesday and Thursday. Tho Napier Parle Meeting takes place on Friday and .Saturday of thin week. Acceptances for the first day's handicaps close to-morrow night. A reminder is given that acceptance* for tho Wairarapa Meeting close to-mor-row night. When Mr. Jameß Bull purchased All Over it was with a view to advertising tho Stepniak horse All Red. now owned by him. The bay gelding is certainly doing his work well, and recently he has cveditod his owner with three stakes, and judging by the manner in which he wen his races, a good handicap should not be beyond him before the autumn season oloses. It would appear that Desert Gold's trainer P. Davis, now has another string to his bow fn Melbourne, this being Bod Pennant, a full-brother to Bunting. Mr. E. J. Watt's unsexed son of All Black and Bed Plume is engaged in the Australian Clip (two mi'cs and a quarter) on Tuesday with the handy of weight of 7st. 51b, against his name, and will bo ridden by F Foley, who won tho Melbourne Cup on Sasanof. A Sydney Daper 6oys;-"JIc lacked nothing in condition when he left here, but there \i no doubt he lcoks more like a jumper than anything else. H. T!avner, who prepared him in Sydney, but did not accompany him over, is auDt«us as to how he will shape when he tackle left-handed going the first time or two, this on tho score that he is rather an awkward horse." As there is no race for Desort Gold on Australian Cup Day, thn Hawke's Bay mentor will have plenty of time to dovoto to the toilet of his latest, Now Zealand-bred charge, who is reported to be a stayer of the first water. The decision not to Btart Desert Gold in the Essendon Stakes owing to the rain was no doubt a wise one. The mare has no engagement to-morrow, but she will most likely be seen under silk, in the 0. M Lloyd Stakes, one mile, on Thursday, when she will afinln be pitted against Wedge, who defeated her in. the Futurity Stakes. . ~,„ ~, Apparently there ifl little wrong with Biplane, for tho morning after his arrival at Bicearton from Wanganui K. J. Mason gave tho Comedy King colt a gallop over five furlongs, and he pulled up sound. Good entries have been received for tho OJO Great Easter and Autumn Handicaps In the seven furlongs event 43 have been entered against 46 last year, and the. list includes all the. prominent North Island sprinters except Chortle, .who has gone wrong. In the Great Autumn Handicap there are 35 entries, which is eleven, more than were entered last year. Amongst the number are llenelaus, SasanSf, Wishful, Vagabond, Margennc, Fierv Crosß. Hymcstra, Croesus and Biplane, all of whom have won important races this season. . Prominent amongst the entries for tho big events of the O.J.C. Easter Meeting are Beltano and Kill 'Em who .are now racing in Melbourno. -The former has been supported for Li? stakes on several occasions in Melbourne. ,ut he hns fn led regularlv. which suggests that lie is a better h'ors. on tho tracks than he w in a rore; Kill 'Em. who is a f-'IP-rptV,. to Kilboy. was a *.itr order for the Poundafloi- finr- it, the WiUiamstown Meeting last month, but he got a very >an- wsago, and was out of a place at he finish. Critics in Melbourne all speak' well of tho three-vear-old. so it may be that ho will speedily get on the winning list after his return to the Dominion.