TURF GOSSIP.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19726, 17 September 1929, Page 14

TURF GOSSIP.

Acceptances for the Ashburton County Kaciug Club's Spring Meeting eloae at 5 p.m. to-day. Nominations for the Birehwood Hunt Meeting close to morrow. Nomination* for the Napier Park and Dunediu Spring Meetings will be duo •n Friday. According to reports, Chide, Hoylake, and I'aqnito have joined Historic at the head ©f ante pout calculations for the New Zealand Cup. Nightmareh is next in favour, hut is likely to join the above quartet as a result of his win at Raarfwiek on Saturday. These horses are followed in the list by Oratri*, Rapier, Concentrate, Corinax, Prince Humphrey, and Beatown.< Nightmareh is liable to be rehandienpped for tbs New Zealand Cup as a result of his win at Bandwick on Satur iny, but can b* raisad only 81b, as tho eoaditions of tao raes state that no korss will carry more than weight-for-•go, which In Nightmareh '■ case Is Bat. The Gainsborough mare, Celerity 11., soutinuos to make steady progress in her training work, and by the time th«» spring meeting* take plaee she will be til good racing condition. Her English stable-mate, Spean Bridge, baa been troubled with a "leg" for some time S>ast, and htr prospects of standing up 10 a Marching preparation axe far from promising.

Mies Bradbury, a three-year-old filly by Paper Money from the English mare, Sstkar, dam of f.O.tJ., has been purehased from Mr J, 0. Duncan by M? V. Delargey. She was sent to Sydney at a yearling, but not being sold was luased to an Australian trainer, who faced her four times as a two-yoar-old Without success. Hhe was brought back to Ellorslie a few months buck and as • result of ft spell lias furnished into a likely-looking illy, capable of doing gooil service for her new owner. Esther, who was mentioned recently as having ft yearling at Kldersliu by Heroic, and being due to foal again shortly to him, is by fiantry, from Persepolis, by Persimmon, from Modura by Bend Or, so that Miss Bradbury has a value, for breeding purposes, apart from her Credentials as a galloper.

Straight-out support for Catkin in the Cauliield Cup has been the out* Htftiiding ittiui in the latest discussions on the big spring double. Catkin has been bucked for the best part of £'14,000 frenmrk« a Melbourne writer). Catkin Is a New Zealander. who was purchased privately in Sydney by Mr C. Ruwolt, lifter the g«tdiiig won the last A J.C. City Handicap, where b» started favourite. He is trained by Harry Gabell •t Cuulfit-Id. So tar Catkin urn not* «|«n« anything of note on the tracks, but in tanks up to a mil* he is doing nicely. Catkin has not yet started in his new owner's colours, but he will be ft ruunor in the HeatberHe Handicap •r the MttMsit Stakes. Catkin was coupled in th* double with Carradale lor £SOOO, and with the Melbourne Cup favourite, Crucia, lor a similar ♦mount.