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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 128, 1 June 1914, Page 2

NOTES AND COMMENTS (By "Sir Lancelot.") The acceptances for the first) day'B handicap events at Otaki on Wednesday are excellent, and provided the club is fortunate in the matter of weather there should be a record meeting. The general entries are also large, the Maiden field numbering 18 and the Scurry 25. Wei' lington patrons of the club should note that trains leave Thorndon Station toi 1 Otaki at 7.10 a.m. and 8.20 a.m. Return trains lea\e Otaki at 4.20 p.m., 4.40 p.m., and 5.35 p.m. Some notes about the candidates engaged in the different events will appear in to-moi. row's issue. When the writer vipited Porirua last week the regulars doing good work included a. two-year-old bay filly by Hy mettus— Paean (by Birkenhead— Chant). The following day ehe met with an accident while working on {ho beach, the injuries proving fatal. She was one of the lots purchased at the Hon. J. D. Ormond's clearing sale at Palmerston North by Mr. H. Gaisford, of Hawkes Bay. The filly, who was unnamed, was one of the first batch of the progeny of Hymettus, and was a first foal. The Riccarton-traitted maro Forest Belle was accepted for for the Flying Hack Handicap. Her form at the South Can. terbury meeting recently was so bad that the proposal to bring her North was abandoned, and the South Island will, therefore, be unrepresented at the Otaki meeting on Wednesday next: At the Queensland Turf Club's meet* ing, which opened at Brisbane on Saturday, Mr. E. J. Watt, the Hawkes Bay sportsman, was represented by Midnight Sun, Moonbria. and Tatterley. The last-named made the best showing, finish* ing second in. the Stradbrooke Handicap. The New Zealand sportsman ha? not had much luck on the other side recent* ly. Moonbria and Midnight Sun were placed at the A.J.C. Easter Meeting, the former being also placed at Tatter, sail's meeting a couple of weeks later. The meeting will be continued on Wednesday and concluded on Saturday next. Although trained at Ellerslie Lady Elgiva is owned in Wanganui. Mr. Connop, in whose colours the performer named runs, formerly had the jumper Rangltoto, Lomaria, Merrie Va-let, and other horses in training when ho resided at Woodville. Lady Elgiva is a. wellbred mare by Soult— Corusa (Medallion — Iris), and is full aister to Lieutenant Soult. On her last appearance at Wanganui she won the Balgownie Hack Handicap, one mile- and a distance, carrying 7st 71b. in 2min. Her next appearance will be at Ellerslie in the Jervois Handicap, seven furlongs, with 9st (Bst minimum), Try Fluke being top weight with 10.5. New Zealand owners continue to try their luck in Australia. Recently Berg (Signalman— Cartouche) was shipped across. The chestnut was out of the hack class here, and his> owner got a good offer for him from Sydney, pro. vided he could get under the pony standard. The jumper Fireworks, Styx, a full brother to Tekahurangi (at present racing in Sydney), and a brother to Rongomau were recently shipped to Melbourne. On arrival there they will probably join The Native, at present trained by R. Cameron. The Merriwee gelding Paoli (winner of a hurdle race at Egmont), is also under orders for the other side. His owner, Mr. F. Davis, who raced Soultiform in Victoria a couple of seasons back, came down from New Plymouth on Saturday to make arrangements k» ship Paoli by this week's Sydney boat. The Messrs. Riddiford paid a visit to Trentham on Friday last to see their rising two-year-olds in J. W, Lowe's stable sprinted. .las. Scobie, the Ballarat trainer, and his right hand _ man, Bobby Lewis, usually play an important part in the autumn meetings in the wheat State. Although in recent years the Victorian has had nothing quite as good as Eye Ulass, > last season Moe and imported Audacity got their share of the prize money, and this year Eltham (a tour-year-old by Carbine's best son, Wallace) has held his own. Prior to going across he won the Ballarat Cup, one mile and a-quarter. For this win he had to put) up 101b penalty in the Adelaide Cup, in which he was beaten by a neck by the imported American mare, Hamburg Belle, owned by the ex-New Zealander, Lou Robertson. On the concluding day of the S.A.J.G. meeting Eltham won the Handicap, of 500 soys, one mile and a-half. The- Adelaide Racing Club s meeting opened on Saturday, when El« tham placed the weight-for-age Parkside Stakes, of 500 soys, to his owner-trainer's account. The winnings of Wallalo and Eltham will place Wallace in a good position on the winning sires list. At the end of April (the third quarter) he was eighth on the list' with £9603. The meeting will be continued on Saturday next and concluded the following Monday. Kohinoor, who last season raced in the colours of Mr. ]?, J. Barton, the circiiß proprietor, is now trained by J. Whitworth, and is engaged at Brisbane this week. Mr. Barton, who is training his own horses while the circus is in winter quarters, will bo represented at Otaki by Gordon Belle and Zimmer. A lucent addition to tfyc string is the jumper Sunrose, who has been quartered at Yrcnthain since the local meeting, where he finished in a place on the fii'Bt day. The three most important positions at the Dunedin meeting this week, those of judge, handinapper, and starter, will bo tilled by North Island officials. Mr. A. G. Wood, who has been appointed to do the starting on account of Mr. Piper's absence owing to illness, acts in this Island for the Marton (summer), Napier Park, Waipukurau, Wniroa, nnd j (lisborne Clubs. The writer remembers "Brasher" Wood as a dashing lightweight in the Hawkes Bay district, when associated with Percy Martin's stable, when it sheltered the grey j Soudan. Pearl, and other performers, ! before he joined Mr. Spencer Gollan. Wood won important races in different parts of the Dominion on Pearl, Clogs, \Vniliri, Leonora, Rivulet, and others. The other officials are Messrs J. E. Henrys (handicapper) and R. D. Aidworth (judge) Mr. Dugnld Thompson, who has been racing Notth East in Sydney recently, is at present on n visit to Wellington. He expects to return to Sydney shortly, and probably will go into business there! The Maniopolo gelding Encore, lunncrup to Want in the Maiden Hack Race at the Manawatn niselina. was recently purchased by Mr, A. W. Rutherford, of Canteibuiy, for 450 guiiicus—a fairly high figure. He has shown signs of