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TURF NOTES FROM AUSTRALASIA. It is stated that another of the country clubs, the Inverell Jockey Club, purposes discontinuing racing until the conclusion of the war. AVell, as there is still more than enough of the sport in and near Sydney, various owners in country districts where racing is being voluntarily reduced will probably send them here to swell the ranks of those racing at registered or unregistered meetings. Sydney Referee. At the New Zealand Racing Conference it requires a three-fourths majority to carry any motion. In the belief that this has been a bar to many desirable reforms, the AAanganui Jockey Club, at the forthcoming conference, will move that if any motion is proposed at each of the three successive annual meetings of the conference, and receives a majority of votes at each meeting, it shall therefore become and have the effect of a special resolution. The Auckland Racing Club totalisator turnover for the past three seasons has been as follows: 1913-14. ,477,355: 1014-15. ,038,905; 1915-10. ,509,745. The club meed eleven days this season, and it will be noted there is a decrease of 1916.sh9,250. as compared with the previous year. One cannot help speculating what the turnover would be in the twenty days at Randwick, where, at the .principal meetings, we have heavy bettors front all parts of Australia. Sydney Referee. The highest weight ever allotted any horse in a Melbourne Cun was in 1809. when The Barb headed the list with 101 pounds. Carbines weight in 1891 was 152, but he did not start, and the last place-getter witlt 140 or over was AVakcful, which had exaetly 140 when she ran second to Lord Cardigan in 1903. Ioseidon was the last horse to run in the Melbourne with over 140. his weight being 143 inclusive of 10 pounds penalty when he started second favorite at 9 to 2 iu 1907 and finished about eighth.
