TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1933, Page 4

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Epigram, ■who lias beeu enjoying a iest =mcc the Wellington Meeting, may resume shortly with a view to contesting one or two inter maiden events. Among Trentham'e jumping brigade during the- winter -will be Pahu, Tunbudge, Tdura Lad, Azure, also probably Araioi, Invite, Capetown, and Cape Fair. A. H. Eastwood has been engaged to ride Rebel Song in the Great Easter and Great Autumn. \L. J. Ellis will be on Merry Peel in the Easter and on Ruling Light in the Autumn. ■ A. E. Ellis was booked to nae Fast Passage in the Great Autumn Handicap, but as she has been withdrawn he will now have the' mount on Shatter, while he will be on Cricket Bat in the Great Easter. , . ' . : The Ashburton County Racing Club has decided to increase the stakes for the Autumn Meeting by £75. The principal | event,; the Autumn Handicap, open, of one mile and a quarter, will carry a stake Of £140, : ~ . ..„.;■..,.,.. ' .;"..■ A Riccarton reports states ..that Azalea, who haiisuffered from.knee ailments since first: trained, has had to'be put, out of training.owing to the trouble developing seriously,, and P. ■ V.' Mason's attention v.now confined to the two-year-old gelding JSilk Arrow. , • > Gay.Crest, Ruling. A Light,,; Great Star, Gustavo, Princess Arsosy, Martian Chief, and Rebel Song make up i useful, team of' horses with engagements in the JJiccarton, double,- the Great Easter and Great Autumn Handicaps. ■ Silver Scorn.in all probability is^biddjng farewell to the. Riccarton tracks this ; ;week. She will be shipped,north^tomorrow.^6r the Auckland Meeting^ and'at th^bn'duiion of that fixture, if present., plans;are adhered to, she will go to Sydney, where she is now owned:.. ■, ■■ . • :,..:'<■