NOTES AND COMMENTS

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 43, 19 February 1918, Page 5

NOTES AND COMMENTS

(II "Sill lANCELOI.") ' The attention ot Wellington patrons of the Wang-anui Jockey Club is drawn to the Autumn Meeting to be held on Thursday and Saturday next. . Satisfactory fields are engaged in all events, including the Egmont winners. The first meeting of Sasanof, the Melbourne Cup winner, and Menelaus, winner of the New Zealand Cup, will take place in the Wanganui Cup. Acceptances for all handicap events at the Dannevirke Racing Club's Autumn Meeting, and entries for the Maiden Plate, of 75 soys, five furlongs, close tomorrow at 9 p.m. with Mr. Walter Dobson (secretary). Torfreda, who scored in the Hopeful Stakes on the_ concluding day of the Dunedin Meeting, was engaged in the Juvenile Handicap and Jackson Stakes at Wangavtui, but is unlikely to take part at the meeting named. Mr. Ernest Trask, a former president of the Nelson Jockey Club, and at present a steward of that club, and ion. treasurer of the Nelson Trotting Club, is now residing in Gisborne. Mr. T. H, Lowry won three weight-for-age races at the Taranaki and Egmont Meetings with Finmark and Estland. The presence of Biplane, and perhaps Hymeetra, at the Wanganui Meeting, will prevent the Hawkes Bay owner having a walk-over for the Jackson Stakes, which in previous years has generally proved an interesting contest. J. Bvidgee's record since he took charge of F. Davis's team ie three wins in as many starts. Desert Gold has,also added to this excellent record in Australia, and' added 350 soys to her winning account. Wardancer ran two good races at the Dunedin Meeting. On the second day, when defeated by Fiery Cross, the latter put up a track record for Wingatui. Fiery Cross and Menelaus are two of the most useful horses in commission at present, and when the records are made up at the end of the season it will be found that this pair of geldings will be near tho top. The Trentham representatives, Devotion, Miss De Val, and Rose Pink, failed on both days of the Dunedin Meeting. Accommodation has been reserved for the last-named at Richmond, where she is engaged in the Nelson Cup. On both days of the Dunedin Meeting the same horses filled the places in the Hurdles. The Calibre gelding Bore had not won a race for a long time, but is evidently back to his best form. He I carried two stone more on tho second day than the first. , ■.' Kilflinn's success In the Salisbury Wei- | ter at Caulfield on Saturday last is the first since she somewhat flukily defeated Desert Gold in the North Island Challenge Stakes at Trentham about twelve months ago. Cetinge, one of the best performers in Australia, conceded Desert Gold weight and put up a good race with her in the St. George's Stakes. Desert Gold's next appearance. will be in the Futurity Stakes, to be run at Caulfield on Saturday next. . H. Gray rode the members of Mr. G. L. Stead's horses which competed at the Egmont Meeting on account of C. Emer : son being laid up. The records go to show that Gray has ridden for nearly every owner of importance in the Dominion except Sir George Clifford: The grandstand at the Richmond Racecourse, which was destroyed the day after the late Nelson Meeting, • has not yet been rebuilt. Captain Hay, the popular skipper of the Anchor liner Nikau, has resumed duty after a month's holiday. He trained Quincelyn for the races he was engaged in at the Nelson Trotting Club's Meeting, and drove, the horse in both events he started in. . The Egmont winners, Volo, Robur, Astor, Arlington, Impediment, Staccato, Piano, Henry Clay, Reparation, and Hushman, were re-handicapped for the Wanganui Meeting.' ' . '