NOTES AND COMMENTS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10508, 9 February 1920, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

The Egmont meeting will be held at ifawera on Wednesday and Thursday of 'this week. The success o.f t'ho Wellington-owned Blackmail at Hamilton on Saturday was well anticipated hero. Blackmail had been galloping well in 'tin, work at Troutham, and Telford hud him in good trim when ho iciced at the WellUirugton meeting, so it was no surprise to tiud him del eating the weaker company .which he mot in tho Waikato. He is one of the .smartest of 'the Trentham. youngstem, and may turn out useful. Tho Duncdiu Cup will bt run on Wednesday.

During the running of a race at the New Plymouth meeting the imported colt Vi eidone is said to have made au attempt to savage Golden Bubble and to have slignily. but not seriously, interfered wua tno Absurd celt’s chances.

Amythas has been made such a boom for tne Dunedin Cup that unless many of those who attend th© meeting wont on the assumption that it may pay to try to pick the second horse, his dividend in the event of 'nis winning, will bo a Desert Gold return. I'f the big Demos, thencs coH reproduces his \\ cllingcon form the only' question is what ho will win toy.

Dike her full-brother, Hymestra, Tortreda is showing signs of a return to fbam. As a Uwo-year-oldl she snowed briliiancy over short courses, and gave promise of becoming one ■of the leading sprinters in 41ho country, but subsequently .she did not run up 'Co expectations. She has shown improved form of late, however, and on 'Saturday was strongly fancied by her connections for the five furlong event at Hamilton. She did not win, .but got second. In the past Torfred'a has not stayed on over more than five furlongs, but with age she may do better. The sport on tho East Coast will bo continued on Thursday and Saturday, when the Poverty Hay Turf Club’s meeting will be held. Til© compauy will be much the same as that which patronised the Gisborne Club’s gathering. Lord Desmond, a promising Demosthenes colt, owned l»y nine 'Wellington sportsmen Messrs Dwan Bros., ib at present having an easy time. This fellow i» growing fast, and will need time, but when he is ready, keep an eye on him!

The Achilles gelding Chillicb must have disposed of the trouble wnich atflioted him. -a few seasons ago, for ho has run fairly well on the flat of late, and won at his first attempt over hurdles at Gisborne on Thursday. Or. Saturday he again, accounted for tno jumping event on the programme. The dissatisfaction among (totalisator ■workers, which led to the formation of a union in Auckland is referred to as follows in' the Auckland. “Star”; —“The lategt section of the community to be imbued with the idea of unionism is the totalisator employees, who can number in their ranks dorks, accountants, and school teachers, etc. At present t d e affairs of this ’party are carried on under an authority styled thq Auckland Totalisator Employees’ Association. They \are (after higher wages and improved working facilities, and state that they are forced to seek the advantages to be bad from the industrial statutes of the (Dominion through the employers refusing to meet them rid conference to con-' aider matters wthiciu, they wish to have remedied. The men claim that toiaiisaiterr turnovers have trebled within the last three years, but the staff handling this vadt sum of money has only been strengthened to the extent of about 15 per cent. The present membership of the association is approximately 100. ’