NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 41, 17 August 1916, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(By "Sir Lancelot.")

Nominations for all events, including tiie Trial Hack Plate, as the' Ma'i'ton Jockey Club's Spring Meeting, to be held on 6th September, close to-morrow at 9 p.m. with Mr. Arthur Way (secretary).

After first payments Eligible, Bee, and Sasanoff remain in the-Caulfield Cup. The two first named and Kilboy have also continued their engagement in the Melbourne Cup.

Mr. J. H. Davis, of Melbourne, has been appointed handicapper to the V.A.T.C. at a salary of £6UO per annum. The successor to Mr, Da-vis as stipendiary steward to the V.R.C. will receive £700 a- year. The New Zealand-bred Golden Rock (Gold Reef—Edith Cureton) won the Mornington Welter, ■ one mile, at the V.A.T.C. Grand National Meeting. Ho is in the Caulfield Cup with 6.12, and Melbourne Cup with 6.10. On the first day of the V.A.T.C. Grand National ?>leeting Ungala. won the Moonbah Steeplechase, about two miles. He wa-s ridden by H. Thompson, who may therefore have had the mount in the Australian Steeplechase, which Ungala won last Saturday.

Albuna (Martian—Ailsa) was among the winners at the Moorefield Meeting on the sth instant. Albuna is in the A.J.C. Metropolitan Stakes, with 6.11." Bee carried 9.2 in the Warwick Handicap, one mile and a-quarter, and won in a canter in 2min 9isec. She started first favourite in a field of ten.

H. Thompson rode Expeditioner to victory in the Steeplechasers' Flat Race at the Findon Harriers' Meeting on the 9th instant.

Referring to the withdrawal of Mr. W. E. Bidwill's colt Determination from Victorian Spring engagements, a writer in the 'Daily Telegraph says:—"The New Zealand colt Determination, who is half-brother to Reputation, and was sent, some weeks ago to M'Grath to be licked into shape, was retired yesterday from the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups'." There is, however, nothing wrong with the colt, who continues in work at Randwick, but up '.-■» the present his trainer says he has not displayed anything to indicate that he is likely to develop sufficient form to win any of the big races of the Spring, hence his retirement. Multicipal was scratched for all engagements at the Grand National Meeting at noon yesterday.