NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17515, 7 March 1919, Page 5

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

(By "EARLY BIRD.") Napier Park to-day and to-mor-row.

Rewi Poto and Hendra read best in the Cup over ten furlongs.

First Line and Ore Ore in the Hurdles, Statuette and Hymarty in tbe Esk Handicap, War March and Wakatere in \the Trial, Retard and First Salute in the Welter, Crenides and Hetaua in the Sapling Stakes, Loveniatch and The Speaker in the Redcliff Welter, and Rawaikore and Elocution or Sea Lord in the Flying, promise to be well supported In their respective engagements to-day.

A lengthy meeting of the Hamilton R.C. Judicial Committee was held on Tuesday night in connection with statements made by Mr. Ewen Alison at an inquiry held in tbe afternoon into the running of Thrace. After the hearing of evidence it was unanimously decided that under the Rules of Racing, Mr. Ewen Alison, jnr., be disqualified for twelve months.

Messrs H. Chisholm (who has purchased some New Zealand thoroughbreds for Australian patrons) and R. J. Watt left for Sydney on Wednesday by the Riverina. J. O'Shea, who is to do the riding of the Kemball team, was a passenger by the same steamer.

Patrons of the Wellington Club who enjoy the weight-for-age con*? tests that bring together the best horses will be pleased to know that the Trentham Gold Cup, one of the fpw long-distance events in the Dominion, will again find a place in the autumn programme. It is hoped that it will result in a meeting between Gloaming, Desert Gold, Menelaus, Sasanof, and Punka, while Mr. Mason may be inclined to produce Afterglow or Karo, in case anything goes wrong with the champion.