NOTES AND COMMENTS (By Sir Lancelot.)

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 57, 9 March 1915, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS (By Sir Lancelot.)

The annual meeting of the Nelson Jockey Club will be held at the Richmond Racecourse to-morrow and Thursday. This year the ,Cup has been increased in value to 300 soy&, and the race will be run over a milo course. No less than nine of the eleven horses engaged hail from the North Island. The list is headed by the promising colt Gold Soult, who has not ,raced since Trehtham, where he scored three victories. He won the Douro Cup, carrying 8.8, and will have 61b more in tomorrow's rade. Plunder, who finished fourth at Trentham, will meet the Porirua colt on 91b better terms. This allowance should bring the pair named together. The field 'also includes Immer, who is getting back to form. On her last appearance at Dunedin, she dead-heated for Second place in a mile race, run in lmin 42sec. She carried 7.9^ and has 61b more to-morrow. C. Pnlchard's stable) is also represented in the race by Mount Victoria and Rumania, Who may bo reserved for" other events later in the afternoon. For liis dual successes at Dannevirke Want has been penalised 131b, which brings his impost Up to 9.8. He is conceding a gcod deal of weight to Klillaloo, who showed good fora at North Otago at New Year time. Moirette and Ruination have won over seven-fur-longs distance, and Casco (the brother to Tavistock) has Won at six furlongs. The Telegraph Handicap list is headed by last year's winner, Lady Vladimir. She is conceding Weight to several I smart hacks. Hap Dba, and Alley, winner and runner-up in the Scurry on the j second day at Woodville, are among those engaged. The Grandstand Handicap is worth 340 soys ? and it is strange such a good stake did nob attract a .better field. Goldstream, who was rehandicapped for his win at Wanganui, is not to be sent across. It is understood that Mowbray will not make- the trip. If reserved for tho race, Mount Victoria., who 'vtae among tho Competitors last year, will probably go Out favourite. The Trentham-trained Rerehau heads the list in the Welter Handicap, seven furlongs. Combination and Molly Hawk raced successfully a.t Greymouth at NewYear time. Heeltap was shipped to Picton on Saturday and will in future be trained at Blenheim, where his ownei' resides. Traquette looked well handicapped in the Toorak Handicap, one mile, with 7.11, run at Caulfield in the spring, and the Newmarket Handicap, with 8.4, but did not manage to win either race. In the Bourke Handicap, seven furlongs, she Vsame-d 8.9, m lmin 28isec, Which time compares favourably with that put up in the' Newmarket, lmin 144«se. In the C. M. Lloyd Stakes, in which she beat Mountain, Knight at Weight-for-age, she ran a mile in lmin 39sec. Traquette is by imported Traquaii' (sire of Ventura, Athenic, Wooraketch), from Simmerette, by Simmer (son of St. Simon), dam Efcra Weenie, by Trenton. Traquette has been a constant and successful performer at Flemington. As a two-year-old she won the Maribyrnong Plate and Mimosa Stakes, in which she carried 101b penalty and beat Carlita. At the Spring Meeting this, season she ran second in the Oaks and won the Spring Handicap, one mile and a-quarter. The local sportsman who races as "P. Soames" is sending Ormesby through to Napier for- the Maiden Race. Ladoga is to be reserved for the Great Autumn. The appeal of Mr. A. B. Williams against the decision of the Gisborne Racing Club for distancing Multiply, placed first by the judge in the Racing Club Handicap on 6th February, was heard by the Hawkes Bay District Committee on Friday. It was resolved as follows; — "That the judicial stewards were improperly constituted under Part V, Rule I, supported by the memorandum of the chairman of the New Zealand Racing Conference, dated Ist August, 1913 — namely, ' under this rule, as amended, it is now compulsory upon the stewards at each race meeting to elect a Judicial Committee to perform the / duties specified by the _ rule. The rule, a-s altered, is imperative, and requires the careful attention of all clubs, as its neglect may invalidate decisions.' " - Mr. L. C. Haalett, who left for Melbourne a few weeks ago with his horees Palisade and Sister Radius, had temporarily to brea-k his holiday trip, and returned to Dunedin, via Wellington, by the finst express from the north on Wednesday last. . In the course of a brief conversation with a Daily Times reporter Mr. Hazlett stated that both his hoTses were "well. Sister Eadius had been started twice}- without success, but Palisade had noo so far had a run with the colours up. Mr. Hazlett visited a number of race meetings, and saw the imported English horses, Land of Song and Flash of Steel, running. He said both were very good racehorses. He saw Brattle win the Oakleigh Plate, and was very much impressed with the Maltster mare. Mr. Haislett continued that there was no end of English horses being imported to Australia. The wellknown Australian horseman, J. Hayes, had landed nine in Melbourne while he was there, and others Were being landed at Sydney. There is something interesting about the breeding of Bachelor's Wedding, the winner of this year's Viceroy's Cup. The horse is from Lady Bawn. who was a twin. A London writer, in mentioning this peculiarity, remarks : — "Twins do not often do much, either on the turf or at the stud, but both Lady Bawti and her twin sister, Lady Black, did well as brood mares for the late Mr. J. Lbwry, for the less famous of these mares, like Lady Bawn, found a congenial mate in Tredennis, and to him she produced a. more than merely useful horse in Bachelor's Charm. Her stud record does not compare, however, with that of Lady Bawn (dam also of Bachelor's Double), and no doubt they inherited altogether different attributes with their differing colour; for Lady Bawn was a chestnut, like her maternal, granddam. the Hermit mare Alone, whereas Lady Black is described in the Stud Book as a brown, which was the colour of their paternal granddam Knavery." Acceptances for the first day's events at Masterbon Meeting ■ close on Thursday night.