TURF. NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 81, 6 April 1933, Page 8

TURF. NEWS IN BRIEF

Rebel Sortg is favourite in the south for both the Great Easter and the Great Autumn. His leg is remaining sound. Gay Crest, according to a southern report, is looking remarkably well, and his track: work shows that it is not all surface gloss. .<.:■■■ The Southland steeplechaser, Squatter, is reported to be amiss.: ,At-,-his only starts last season he won" the Great Western and "Autumn,. Steeplechases at the Riverton Easter, Meeting.

Mr,. J. R. Mitchell,, president . of/ the Oamaru Jockey. Club, .who. had. a fatal fall from a pony, was,a popular figure in sporting .circles, '■' In ■partnership with Mr. J. O'Brien Mr: Mitchell in.bygone years made large..shipments■ of 'horses -to Australia. .'"A, -".E- Ellis -win; ride- Gold.' Sand, "Full Crop, iind.Pakitefe; at the Westland Moot-j ing oii-SatuVday: -Tl.-" E. Coveney has secured they mounts on Imasmvcy and Jaei;/a'nd..G/H.-JHiimp'h'ries will■ pilot Reserve Fund..:.,.•'.,. , . . . .- . . .G.. IT. Humphries is likely to be riding at Rivorton ?on Easier Saturday, one of his probable-mounts being Admiral Drake iii th'e'Rij'drtbn; Cup.,' * Among the horses going well in their work: at Wingatui is Polling Day, who has won< over-fencesl and holds more than an oiitside -chance in the Great. Western Steeplechase, to be run at Riverton. A-horse who'is already being picked out in the south;;as a likely sort for the Southern Champion Hack- Handicap on the second ■ day "of, the ■■ Riverton Meeting is. the A.ustraljan-bir.ed. Karrial- Pasha. Last year ■tfus:race'..w.as"won by the Trentham-owned arid.trained Red Sun, also bred in Austra-•lia.7\->■■>;;■-,''i;.V •'■■'■■ ! .'■'•" V ■ E.:E_udl6w; was kicked, in the face while attending to:Jlaere Tonu in A. McAulay's stable at Riccarton on Monday. Twelve stitches ,■ had to be inserted' -in his forehead, v-;.. :•• -,'■ ■:■:_-.. .•■-...■.■'■. •..-.':

'The 'death took'place , lasfj week- in Hawke'sßay, .after,'.a, lop?, illness, of Mr. P. P,. Neagle, .one- of; the ; best-knowr) gentlemen 'riders' of His' "Any ,iri New Zealand, and a prominent ■'owner-trainers in later -yeai'S./^Hei.woro/many-races .ns a rfder,.bdth :on;the, flat andr.ov.ep jumps, and was.irassociated-; with.;..the ;.;brilliant: show, jumper, < Piekpdckrt.i."'.! who-won • championjshipS ■ throughout"'New Zealand, and also |in..Australia. Taking, up fanning .he bred a^'nunibcr of good horses,', one"of his brood 'mares,' Heavenly Twin, producing some, -high-class performers."'He trained all the, horses" he raced, and Si few.. years ■ ago set up as a. public trainer,'. and for Mr. P. F. ■Wall and: others he had a.fair ■■measure;.'of success;;:.*! ',';. Vsl' •%.\ v,V ~l'\ " '