WELLINGTON NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3315, 26 September 1917, Page 43

WELLINGTON NOTES.

(From Our Own Correspondent.) September 20. There was barely a quorum,at the annual meeting of members of the Wellington Racing Club. Most of the time was taken up with reading the president’s speech. The club is .marking time until after the war, when the whole of the building; will be removed and new ones erected. Peryolo (Advance—Ballarat), who has been doing good work, at Trcntham, has gone slightly amiss, and wdll not be taken to Otaki. Mr A. E. Whyte, secretary of the Wellington Racing- C'lub, had made all arrangements to leave for Sydney to attend the A.J.O. meeting; but the boat he was to leave by was cancelled, and ho will not now, make the trip across. i The well-known horseman Hector Gray has been granted a conditional license by the Taranaki Jockey Club, and will make his -reappearance in the .saddle at Otaki on Monday next. 1 The injuries which L. Traill received when his mount fell in the Hurdles at .Dannevirke have twisted the muscles _of his shoulder, and are likely _ to keep him out of the saddle for some time. Most of the local stables are represented at the spring meeting of the Otaki Maori Racing Club on Monday next. ' The Railway Department has announced that theordinary trains wdll not stop at Otaki. This will not in any way affect the success of the gathering. Lisp, by Demosthenes —Savannah, trained by J. H. Prosser at Porirua, and the Rokcby—Tea Cup colt, in the same stable, will probably bo sent south to contest the M'Lean Stakes at Wingatui next month. Both youngsters are owned by Mr R. Acton Adams. While schooling Sir Thomas, one of T. Pritchard’s team, at Opaki, a rider named C. H. Rowland sustained k fractured leg on Wednesday last. There is a movement afoot here to form an Owners and Trainers’ Association, the same as in other centres.