NOTES AND COMMENTS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 159, 25 March 1918, Page 7

NOTES AND COMMENTS

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. Owners and iruinm :uo reminded that aucopuuetd lor ;ui tne nrei (lay's evema oj urn 4'iciaiu£ JocKcy uiuo'a Easier iuwcniK oioiu wan tne cccrvcury, ill-., b. uouiibcuere to-mgnt, at 3.W.

xvuuiinatioiib lor <ill uventa at the Alauawsvtu Kaciiig. Ulub'a Autumn hleouug, vljso forfeits for tho Tentli Mana-watu riires' i'ruauco atakes, mid Jb'ouiteemli ilaflawiVtu stakes, will tloeo 10-mrrrow, at ') p.m., with the secretary, liox 62, l'almcrston It orlh.

Orcesus has oJrea<lj arrived at Kicc.ir--leu lo [mill hie- uigatriMneiits at the C.J.O. Easter iketing. It will \n: notiueil that. Ulo' half-broUiei- to Desert. Oold hua Ijcon paid up for in the Great Autumn Handicap, flo evidently ho is to be tried ovor a. dietanoc. He ie nicely weighted with 7st. 101b. in i,ho long race.

Biplane in ftill corryinf; all before him on Ihc tracks aI, Hiocartoii. On Saturday morning hn van sii iiirlonps in lmjn. l't 3-SSCIS, which was easily tho best, rullop of tho morning. Mapcot has incurro'l a. lOlb. penalty for tho Great Autumn Ka:idii»p, and under thesn circuuislsiuccs nho may not 1)0 aekctl to contest thu event, a , * tho stable has two otliw i-epre'enntativcs in the Taco in Jleiiclaus and Johnny Walker. Final payments for llio C.J.O. Groat Kaster and Autumn Handicaps arc duo on Wednesday uight. Acceptnncea for tho minor handicaps oloeu on tho Sa.aio day.

Naupata created a slight diversion at Riccarton on Saturday morning. Ho sot out for a half-mile eprint on tho tan, but on reaching the etra-ielit he ran oil Ihe track and was not pulled'up until he roa-ahed the 'centre of the course, jneide the jumping track.

A colt by Tilio Welkin from the New Zealand-bred mare Lanri Rose sold jit 210 ijuiucaa at the Melbourne Bales. Another by tho same sire inaile 500 guineas. Tlicaf! njurcs do not read liig for the stock of a 500-guineaß fire if the sire ie worth the mouey.

Mr. E. P. Wilson, a famous amateur steeplechase rider in the 'seventies and 'eighties, died at ,Stratfofd-on-Avon on January 15. . Ho rode Voluptuary to victory in the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase in IFB4, and Roquefort in tho following year. Rorlte's' Drift's two Trlnp at InveroarEtil) have earned him tho maximum penalty in the Great Autumn Handicap. His weight in that race is now 8?t.- 111b., and ho Is rozarded as an unlikely starter.

For the second year the War National Steeplechase, which takes the .plate ot tho Grand National, had to be decided at Gatwiclc. Poltklyn, who carried Mrs. H. Peel's colours to victory, is an age* son of Hydal Head nnd Fine Champagne, trained at Lowes by S. Escott. Both he and the runrior-iip, Captain Droyf.us, have done a good deul of croei-country racing, while Ballymacad, the third plaoe filler, won the corresponding race twelve months ago. '

During the past few dayfi Fiery Cross has been off (ho traces as a result of kidney troubles. Aβ thore was little chanco of liii being at his beat for the forthcoming meeting he was withdrawn from tho Great Eaator Handicap and Great Autumn Handicap at 11.55 a.m. on Satur-

day. ' The Australian Jockey Club has notified the Red Cross. Society that the expenses connected with the nursus sent by the Now South Wales Division for service -with the French would be defrayed for a further six monthfl. This is a continuation of the support from the A.3.C. which has relieved the Ited Cross Society of all expeneef with this gift to the French. It will be of ''ntereat to Bouthcm men in camp wlio intend to sptnd their Eastor leave in Ohristchurch to know that admission to the 0.J.0. meeting, to be held at foster, -will br- eranied by the club to all members of H.lt. Foiws belonging- to the foreifra service branch, icturnsd soldiers, and attested men. Per tho Metropolitan Trottinc Olnb's fixture on faster Baturday the eame pmiloKe will he extended to returned soldiers. In sniJher case will men on "l»ivo withont pay" ho piren the?« -tickets. Thosp who are olirriblo Bhrrald. if in mufti, «»11 n.t th« (VD.O. room for tickets on Thursday, JTsreh 28. tn.kinsr thnir discharge or leave pa?* for identification enrnoKW. Tftosn in khaki will be passed straight through. TRAININC -NOTES FROM RAND.WICK. fiy telegraph-Press Aeeooiation-OoDyrifcnt RantlwloU, Match 23. The weather was fine and, the track in good otder for the fc'al'cps. Bee did a inilo in lmin. fljuiii;., and Kllfllnn, assisted by Kilboy, went a similar distance In lmin. SOisec. Piinco Yiridie beat Wallace Isinglass over a mile in lmic 4fisec. lted Pennant went slowly round, hut iaji tho last mile in .hnin. 48Jnec. Cetigne covered Boven furlongs in llnln. 32lsec, and Deaen Gold did tho last saven furlonge ot a mile in lmin. 32aec without aparently being distrosß.ed.

C.J.C. SCRATCHINCS. By Telegraph,—Preee Association. Christchurch, March 23. Parisian Diamond was scratched for all engagements at the 0.J.0. Meeting at 10.30 o'clock, and Fiery Crose for tho Great Easter Handicap and Autumn Handicap at 11.55.