JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1933, Page 4

JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

S. Wilson's, xide in the Ktzherbert' Handicap _at t the Wellington Meeting is not Gay Coat, as previously announced, but Quebec, the'halfrbrother by Lord-Q'uei'to Gay Court. ':.'-.; .. . . v.. .;; ; v The_Sydney Cup, for. -Hrhich one or. two JNew Zealanders may be nibbling this year, js run on' Easter' Monday, 17th Aprils over a distance of tjvo miles. 'It carries. £4000 added money and a.gold cup: worth £200. . A southern message ; states that Silver King has .been turned1 into the paddock. Perhaps' ungraciously, the writer.'■ adds: He may as well, be, there as on the tracks m his present form." ■ , Ruling Light has-only to train on the right way to keep-the best of them busy in th? ,+ elesraph 'Handicap,,if-that race should■ be her. mission., at the. .Wellington Meeting-next Thursday^- says a Dunedin writer. She is also engaged over a. mile in the Anniversary Handicap. The Biccarton jockey, M.' Kirwari, had only one win at the Eeefton Meeting out of; nine rides, but his record of fifteen wins out of twenty-nine rides on the recent Coast circuit will take some beating. _ Rothen, formerly owned by Mr B DoOley and trained at Trentham, but now racing in the colours of the Riccartoh trainer,-A. E. Wormald, proved an expensive proposition at Reefton, b'uf;'lie ran much below his, recent » forni.i He seemed unable, to handlev-thetturns,^^! was always labouring. >V>":?.': «SsJ , The Te Awamutu trainer^ A'^Cook'Sna^ taken :the useful Marble Arch geldifigS lenakoe, now six years old, in hand again*

after, a :spell of :pver- eighteen" months.Anr other of this 'trainer's team back in work is the.imported,flyer,l Bambury, who has had a. short spell in'the paddock.; - In England last month. an owner lost a very promising . two-year-old named The Prince.- The youngster suddenly, took ill, and^ the specialists could not diagnose the trouble. :- The colt' died,' and •-■ his trainer,' being ansious to. learri;jthe cause of death, had aposfc-morteiii on him; A piece- of cane; about'lo inches long" was found inside'himi His heart and,lungs were berfectl; -;..;?:■.■■,.;.-■■,;. v.-.., :; / ; ;. "■Shatter,-who did • not race during the holidays, accomplished a six-furlorig task freely; at: Riccarton; on Tuesday morning. The?report; -adds that he'; has come on nicely during the last week or tWo; arid he maybe ready to show-useful form before the, end,^f the Wellington Racing Club's Meeting next I week. " Adelphi;xas going'well in the conclude ing. eventat Reef toa on Tuesday when he Moke dowii'-badly. He wa^r very lanie onreturning- to.the enclosure, arid, as he-Md-been on the! doubtful>Jist for some weeks past, he willnbw,require > lengthy spell.-■ ■ -Thevthree^year-old,Rocket, who did-bo racing during the:holidays, was kept going in nsefuLwork, aridihe looks in good order for -hia ■ Trentham: Engagements, which: are varied, states a; Christchurch>report. He is^due to-run on: tKe. opening day in; the Wellington- Cvp v and;;his second in the: New Zealand p^rby.makes him look a possibility for this eyeriti; as- he showed that he could stay. Onlatfer days he figures in Tiighweight events and mile hack handicaps, including the Douro Cup.