TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 6

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

It is a pity that Aga Khan is not engated in the Auckland Cornwall Handicap, lor he won so easily at Hawera that he must have had a fine chance of capturing 1 the Ellerslie event next month. Agi Khan is among those handicapped for the principal flat event at Wanganui next week. „ , . Lady Quex wan one. of the prominent fail.ures.at Hawera, and for this the heavy track might have been partially responsible. She failed to show up in the sprint the first day, and in the middle distance handicap on Saturday she was well beaten after going less than six furlongß. On this form she does not look a good proposition for winter racing. Little Doubt made his reappearance at thci Egmont Meeting, and he shaped as well as could be expected for a horse who had not raced for some time. He is enRaged at Wanganui, and if raced there he should be landed at the post fit and well for the Cornwall Handicap. He is not without a chance at Wanganui. On tfie strength of her fourth in the sprint the first day at Hawera, when she was noticed finishing on very strongly, Awaken was expected to take a part in the finish of the Davidson Handicap on the second day, but she failed completely. Perhaps she will do better at Wanganui, where she figures in the Empire Handicap with" the handy impost of 7.12. The fields "for the opening on Friday next of the Marlborough Racing Club's fixture are • excellent and ..the meeting should be a very interesting one. The racing promises; to be in keeping with the best seen at the Waterlca course and this should )bo an inducement for local sportsmen to make the trip over. Membo's finishing run into third place with 115 on the first day of the recent touth Canterbury Meeting was 1 a poo-1 effort and he should not be long in reachinß firßt/class order for the winter campaign. He J3 to race at Te Rapa next week and will po from there to Ellerslie for the Great Northern Hurdles. The King Country Steeplechase at Te Rapa next week promises to be a ichearpal for the Groat Northern Steeplechase a fortnight later, for all but one 1 nf those entered for the foimei event are in the big'EUcyplie conte&t. If they all po to the post it should be a veiy entertaining event for Waikato sportsmen, .T----wHI as being instructive. ThespiH is (he present favourite in the north for the' Great Northern Hurdles, jus weight in which is 0.10. He iB entered for the. Hack Hurdles at the Te Kuiti Meeting..next week and hia form there, if he is started, should be an indication of his prospects in the more valuable event, for he has 11.3. on Saturday week. An interesting event is" to be run at Newmarket today,; and following as it does the Two. Thousand Guineas and preceding the Derby, it is. a rice of some importance. This is the. Newmarket Stakes, one'jand .a' .quarter' miles, and is for tbree-y_ear-;blds only/'.the -contestants usually being:-horses engaged ;in the big. Enelish classic races. "The Turf fixtures set down for this week include the Southland R.C. yaM Marlborough R.C. Meetings on Friday and Saturday,, and the Aucklah'd'/.and' Oamaru trots on Saturday next;;.' ;'..-'