JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 25, 31 January 1933, Page 4

JOTTINGS IN GENERAL

v^The" card -for. the opening day of the Egmo.nt .Summer -Meeting twelve months a£o ..contained;'eight' events, but' there are only seven "events this yeai-: The hack six: furlonga has been dropped.

Jalous,- it is understood, will be trained in fiitiirerby C.' Davey, who prepared Compris for: Mr. P. F. Campbell. '

Exoep't ; fdr; :tlie' principal - handicap on theifirst-day, the'entries for.the Marlboroiigh Meeting must be considered satisfactory.. The..Presidents" Handicap, the event; referred to, has only Atholspear, tallow,^Lyrical, and Miladi engaged".

_ Trehtba'm." horsed nominated for ' the Marlborough \Meeting are Lyrical, Late Jest,- Purse, Shobtist, Invite, Lord John, Maypay, . Solitaire 11, Money Mint, Love Court, and Palace, and, favourably handi-' capped, most of these will probably make the crossing.

n Mr. V. Riddiford's three horses in racing trim—Eminent, Clangor, and Might— were at the last moment accorded nominations for the Taranaki Meeting next week. They are the only Trentham horses engaged at the meeting, and there is no certainty yet that they will undertake the trip. ■-:.'■ ...

A Riccaf ton: report: states, .that Sailor's Love*.the: five-year-old sister to Fast PasBage,.' is' ■ going \ along steadily' in' useful w,ork. She is^ quite sijund; and', aB she has a fair turn of speed,: she. should(pay her way in the autumn. It will.be remembered. that; this mare won well at Trentham twelve months. ago. ' . •■ ■ ■ • • ■ <■'■•■. ■,

■The Auckland- lightweight jockey,- H. N. 'Wiggins, -proposes "to do -some riding in the South Island next month. He; will attend ' the Dunedin Autumn Meeting where he-will ride for Mr'.'.W..T. Ha?lett and Mr. J. M. Samson, and. he may wait for other meetings following. - ■'■'■'■:■

•According .to a, Te Arbha " report Antique's half-sister by Cynic, who has not yet x'aced, is growing--nicely, and isl furnishing w<jlh and it is--likely that she will be'takeii in'hand'again-in, the coming, month by her owner-irainer, J. H. Wallace. '

The Tea Tray-Fleeting- filly, -who is a half-sister to Inflation, failed to elicit a bid when offered at the Treutham yearling sales, on behalf of the Elderslie Stud, 'but she has since been sold privately to Mr. W. G. Simpson,, who .. lives near Wanganui. ■' ',:,,,

Lord Quex, the English stallion by Lemberg; who wa's passed in at 60 guineas at the Tr.entham sales; has since been-pur-chased by-Mr./W. p. Kemball, who had mm on lease for : the last stud season. Lord Quex was second on the ,' winning sires' list for 1930-31, and third last season. ■

Writing on Ist December the London correspondent of "The Post" stated:—"l saw the Derby winner April the Fifth the other day, and he has grown into a magnificent horse. Mr. Tom Walls, his owner, is confident that in the coming, season April the Fifth will be unbeatable."