TURF GOSSIP

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23803, 24 November 1942, Page 7

TURF GOSSIP

An Excellent Card A feature of the acceptances received yesterday for the first day of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s spring meeting next Saturday was that there were no defections from the list for the New Zealand Cup, and there Is eyery Indication that the 20 horses to be carded will all go to the post. The withdrawals from the Stewards’ Handicap Included Dominate and Nizam, who are both to contest the New Zealand Derby. Another in Rawhamai is engaged in the Rlccarton Handicap, and Indian Sign, Deolall and Celebrity, the remaining defections, will not be at the meeting. The 48 horses handicapped for the Apprentices’ Handicap, were reduced to 28, and two divisions will fortunately not be necessary Boloyna, The Raker, Southern Sail, Atreus, Enloglst, Don Quex, and Kevin, with- 1 drawn from the Riccarton Handicap, are all In the Cup. There were no further payments for the Welcome Stakes and Derby, and strong fields are promised for both classics. A Cup Bracket Gladynev has been sold to Messrs J. and L. McMillan, owners also of Don Quex, and these horses will now be bracketed on the totalisator. G. New will arrive with the pair this morning. A Hastings Juvenile Marram, engaged in the Spring Nursery at Riccarton on Saturday, is a bay filly by Gynerium from La Moderne, dam of Gayest Son, and, like the latter, is owned by her breeder, Mr A. F. Symes, of Hastings. She has had three races to date, being unplaced in each. A Serious Delay Gay Genet was accepted for in the New Zealand Cup on November 13, the tele- ; gram being handed in at Hastings at 10.40 a.m., but it did not arrive at the Canterbury Jockey Club's offices before the hour of closing, 5 p.m. Becoming Popular Otakl has grown into a busy training centre of late. At present there are no fewer than 33 horses In training, a number of outside trainers having taken up quarters there in recent months. Among j the latest trainers to join the Influx are D. Enright, late of Levin, with Sir Crusoe, Swell Chance, Mataimat. and an unraced Bulandshar three-year-old; B. McKnight, late of Featherston, with Autolite and Lotto; and A. Quinlivan, of Hastings. As soon as they can obtain the necessary accommodation two other wellknown trainers from New Plymouth and Hastings propose taking their teams to Otaki. At Wingatul Additional nominations for the Dunedin Jockey Club's summer meeting are as follows: PUBLICANS’ HANDICAP, of £500; six furlongs.—Bashful Lady, Blissful Lady. Compeer. Cralglea, Donnybrook Fair. t Monetary, Egyptian Rose, Fleet Street, Fur Coat, Grilse. Hearth, John Gay. Lord Nuffield, Night Lancer, Pioneer, Palora, Royal Chorus. Straight Bat, Secret Flight, Spanish Lad, Top Row, Winning Flight. JOCKEY CLUB HANDICAP, of £600; one mile two furlongs and a half.— Atreus, Arctic Dawn, Arabian Night. Atua Here, All Night, Anglo-Irish, Bashful Lady, Boloyna, Cralglea, Don’t Forget, Donnybrook Fair, Doubleack, Dash o' Dublin. Eulogist, Foxhaven, Fidells, Georgia, Gold Flight, Gay Parade, Gayest Son, Good Scout, Hotch Potch, Hearth. Kevin, Military Maid, Milton Abbas, Night Lancer, Night Pal, Prince Shad, Royal Lancer, Royal Chorus, Siglow, Secret Flight, Spanish Lad, Southern Sail, Sing Sing, The Joker, Tutere, Tissue, The Raker, Wild Talk.