NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLI, Issue 9247, 14 January 1916, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Acceptances for the Wellington. Racing Club's meeting close to-night at 9 o'clock. -.Entries tor the Trial Stakes and the Disposal ..Stakes close at the same time. The Foxton Club's acceptances close to-night. Acceptances f or" the Wellington Troting Club's meeting close to-night with. Mr Short at 9 o'clock. Rose Pink is doing steady work and is keeping fit. Pall Mall, who put up two good performances at Tauherenikau, is mot being started at Trentham on the first day. Kellorman has been working over the sticks nnd shapes very well. More will be heard of Kellerman in the jumping season. Ceylon, and Eoumania are still in. commission and are moving along. Mollymawk is doing good work. Cyra, who is racing at Foxton, has kept up to his work and is very well. ' Carlatour, who is a candidate for the Wellington Stakes, arrives to-day. Welcome Nuggut will be ridden in the Wellington Cup by \V. Bell. Ashley Reid has been commissioned to ride Bee in the Wellington Cup. Desert Gold will be a starter in the Wellington Stakes. Accommodation has been booked for her at TrenthamSeadown galloped half a mile yesterday morning in good order. He wont very wellHappiness and Chakwana went over half a mile, both finishing well. The tracks at Trentham are very hard and a little rain would do no harm at all. Some of the horses engaged at the Cup meeting, who have been doing a lot of racing of late, will find it difficult to maintain! their stability unless the going lets up some. A good number of horses were out yesterday morning. Some sprinted, but the majority did light and useful work. Taringamutu did a mile in good time, going evenly throughout. The filly looks exceedingly well. She went for her feed after work just like a, "good one should. Ormesby went a half-mile, moving freely., ~ ':, Arlington was associated with Le Chat over half a mile, the gallop occupying 51sec. . Medallist, who has turned fourteen years, is still in work. He is being got ready for the Selling Eace. - Bransdale, the three-year-old, who is engaged at Foxton, is training on. and has put up some good gallops. Miraculous covered six furlongs in olsec. Chortle went half a. mile in 48sec, with 4 light weight up. Sid Reid will ride Mr horse in the Cup. Pukeniooi and Maltegarde were sent half a mile, which was covered in 50sec. Roiigora and Sir Musketry covered six furlongs in lmin 19sec. Sir Saracen did a good gallop and is going along nicely. Square Deal, arrives to-day-F. Davis is due at Trentham with Mr T. H. Lowry's team, which will be composed of Tete-a-Tete, Desert Gold, Batboa, Bjornberg, and Lady Kilworth; Immet will not start on the first day at Trentham. The Riccarton trainer, M. Hobbs, has both Down, and Deltonio engaged in the- Ruapehu Handicap at Trentham, and the latter may be started, as his stable-mate is in the Anniversary Welter. Deltonio is one of Mr Harvey Patterson's breed, by Delaware (who carried the late G. G. Stead's colours successfully in the Ddminion) from Lady Melton (dam of Mowbray and Meltchikoff). At the Wyndham meeting on New Year's Day Dgltanio won the Visitors' Hack Handicap, five ,furlongs and a half, carrying 7.8, in lmin ?Bec. Meltchikoff won. the following race on the card-

It is quite evident that a large number of the horses remaining in the Second Taranaki Stakes stand their ground through negligence on the part of their owners. The southern stables are well represented, the collection including Treadfire, Greenstreet, Bimeter, Einperador, Good Hope, Battle Eve, Plying Start, and Bonny Dream. There is sure to* be a big weeding out when the next payment falls due.