TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 4

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Tripping, who is engaged at .Woodville tomorrow, is a fiv.e-year-old Nigger Minstrel mare who showed a lot of promise early' in her career, but has been kept out of the game through unsouuduess. Her last start was at the Wellington Spring Meeting over eighteen months ago._ ■ When the. three-year-old, Vonia t"arK, stepped out in the Juvenile Handicap at Waipukurau last Boxing Day he was made favourite, but was beaten into third place by Passion Fruit and Lavinia. He is due to have his first race since in the. Hopeful Stakes at Woodville tomorrow,, and he may be worth watching. _ .;_■ The winners of the: last two W.R.L. Whyte Handicaps, Mahora and Koyal liengat are engaged in the Goldfinch Memoria Handicap at Woodville tomorrow.. Koyal Bengal is in form, but has.been somewhat unlucky in his recent races. Mahora, on the other hand, will be making a reappearance after an absence of nearly a yearfollowing a fall at the last Hawke s iiay Winter Meeting. . Trentham stables will provide three ol the small field in the Winter Hack Hurdles nt Woodville tomorrow. One ot the centre's representatives, Pahu, stands out, and he is likely to be a very hot order. Of the other pair, Taura Lad is a possibility, because he has done a lot of recent schooling and should be well seasoned. Vitaphone, leaking his debut at the game, may be too green yet.Kotaki Eka has managed a much quicker descent in the weights than most horses can. In six races this season he has carried 8.6 at -■Marlon (ran second b 8.4 at Wanganui (won), 9.0 at Wanganui (unplaced), 8.12 at Otaki (unplaced), 7JI, car. 8.0%, at Feilding (unplaced), and 7.P, car. (3.0%, at Feilding (unplaced). He was left'badly in the two last instance?, but afterwards went good races. He now conies into the Matahiwi Hack Handicap at Woodville tomorrow with 7.2. Shootist, who recently won six of his fourteen races on the West Coast circuit, being placed in four others, will have a chance of measuring himself against a better class of hacks in the Matahiwi Hack Handicap at Woodville tomorrow. The race should show whether it has been his improvement or the class of opposition that has assisted him to build up his good 'recent record. He likes the soft going, and is certainly not at all badly treated with 8.1, the same weight as Beaconsfield. A movement is reported to be on foot to form, ah owners' association in. Chrrstohurch/ Apart irom its. objects of assisting owiiers and trainers, the activities of such a body, should also be of benefit to the various' clubs. ' The trotting people in the Cathedral City have long had an owners' and breeders' association. • , . Valicare, one of the fastest mares raced in Australia, and who was retired to the stud a lew years ago, was sent by her owner, Mr. P. H. Osborne, of New South Wales, to the Koituna Stud in 1930 to be mated with Night Raid, and her production, a colt, is now one of 15; Payten's team at Randwick. Particular interest has attached to him, and it is said his iippeuvfuiee suggests staying ability and siired.