JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 38, 15 February 1933, Page 6

JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

If-the-Carterton Eacing Gab'is successful in obtaining a_pern.it for an extra day's meeting on-April 20 it will probably use the win-and-place totalisator. . Shrewd, one of the half-dozen acceptors for the, E&rle Stakes at" Wangaiiui tomorrow,' won that" race twelve months ago'carrying 51b-more than he has tomorrow. He was a -winner at Hawera a fortnight ago at his most recent start. Grand Jury 'was third in last year's Barle Stakes, at "Wanpanui under 7.10, and he was the -winner of the second day's main handicap. This season his form has been very poor, but he is always liable to strike a good patch again, and should he strip near his best he would play a prominent part in tomorrow's finish. As showing how owners will not now accept more horses than necessary, there is no bracket in any race at IJWanganui tomorrow. Ulpreover, only one horse, Arisus, has more than a single engagement. View Halloo won the sprint on both days of last year's . Wanganui Autumn Meeting very easily, *and< he will be attempting the same feat again this year. He won a sprint at the last Spring Meeting also at, his only start at the fixture. First Acre, Hunt the Slipper, and Bayacre, who. are accepted for events at Wanganni tomorrow,.will be making, their first appearance since their return from Australia*,last.month. First Acre.had.his last start in the Dominion at this meeting two years ago, winning the main handicap on the. second day. Concern is being expressed by the officials of the Thames Trotting Club at the request of the Avondale Jockey Club to hold its meeting on April 1 and 3. April 1 is the date granted to the Trotting Club for its annual meeting, and a northern message states that, a protest has been lodged with the Eacing and Trotting Conferences. Arrangements have been made by the committee of the Franklin Eacing Club for the win-and-place system of betting to be operated at the club's.annual race meeting at Pukekohe on March 4; Thd club hopes to race again this season on April 29, and an application for a permit for this date has been made to! the District Committee." After the Hopeful Handicap at the Dunedin Meeting on Saturday, the' starter, Mr. "A. D. Mclvor, reported the... Southland apprentice, R. J. Mackie, the rider of the winner, for disobedience.' The stewards found that Mackie had been guilty of improper behaviour,' and fined him £2, besides administering a warning. The two year-old Tuvet, who won the Hopeful Handicap at Wingatui on Saturday, is a half-sister by Paladin to Kerbside. Like her relative, she is inclined to give trouble at the barrier, but after going out smartly on Saturday she always looked like a winner, as she is endowed with brilliant speed. The high wind that was experienced at Wingatui on Saturday caused trouble in some of the starts. In the first race the tape was blown into the faces of the horses, those in. the middle of the field being the chief sufferers. The electric release failed to act In the last race of the day, and the start was effected by the horses' breaking through the tape. They went off, however, in quite excellent line. The Waipa Eacing Club has made application for an extra totalisator permit for a, special meeting. The proposed date is Saturday, May 20. Members of,the committee who had observed the win-and-place system of totalisator investments at Matamata, recently we.c warm in their praise of the innovation, and it seems probable that this system will be adopted at the club's next lace meeting. As usual, Shatter was slow' to get"- going in the Dunedin Jockey Club Handicap on Satmday, blithe did not drift so far backas in the JDunedin Cup. As a result he was able to move into fouith place half a mile from home, and he came home strongly. His success did not come out of its turn, as he has disappointed his admirers several- times since winning at Wingatui in October.