TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 139, 15 June 1933, Page 8

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

ftauc on Saturday will be the concluding day, oE the Hawke's-Bay,fixture and the South Canterbury fixture at Washdyke. There will also be trotting at Greymouih. -».-" ; .,v '■■'■■ ' ■ '

The Ascot' Gold' Cup,' two and a lialf miles, the distance race of premier importance in the English .racing calendar, will be decided, at the Royal Ascot Meeting today. .

The' Trentham owner-trainer, .W. J. Wood, has. brought Loyecourt in again after a brief spell and is ■working her along again. This three-year-old' Gainscourt filly liaß shown promise in ( the few races, she'has had, and as she appears likely to stay she.may prove useful later on. Normandy, has'been kept in regular work, since his trainer, J. W. Lowe, went ta Melbourne three months ago, and lie will '• need' very little tuning -up : for the coming Wellington Meeting. lie looks exceptionally well at present. The last Grand National Meeting was sufficient evidence that he is capable of handling soft going. -' ; ' ■ ■ ..■'•',.-' The four-year-old gelding Chief Clerk, by Chief Kuler from Kaiserin, is thriving splendidly on. the useful tasks he is being allotted by P. W. Scally at Ellerslie, states a northern writer, and, his condition is showing marked limprovempnt. He won only one small race Avhen raced extensively last season'; but he looks- better after a spell and may come into his own as' a five-year-old. '■. ' ." '""*'■.,■'■.'

A Takanini report-says that L V M. Manson is still confined to his home, but he is now recovering from a bout of rheumatic fever., H. Hastedt is.attending to the ■wants of- Tavern Knight' and Cherry ■King, both of whom have furnished noticeably lately. . No trainer in Auckland will start the season with two more promising young horses than this pair. . The Hunting Song gelding Tahoma, who was to have contested the open sprint a ; t Hastings today, is undergoing his prelinn-. nary education as a hurdler at Hastings. Is Tot many of the Hunting Songs have essayed hurdling yet, but one of them, Aladdin, proved a champion. Tahoma may make his • hurdling debut on the second day at Napier Park nest week.

The two-year-old King Mestor, by King Lu—Lady Mestor,\has rejoined -R. S. Bagby's teatnat Ellerslie. He has'been spelling since the autumnand has returned to work in healthy condition, having exercised himself a good deal wlieri out in the paddock.' He showed useful form in juvenile handicaps in the middle of the season, and should be capable of paying his way in the new term. ■ .

The jumpers Solanio and Billy Boy made their first appearance on- the Ellerslie track since racing at the Auckland, Winter Meeting on Tuesday, ' and both appeared to have freshened up nicely, They will be kept going for the coming winter, meetings, and it is the present intention of R. W. Lewis to take Billy Boy to Trentham next month. The fixed maximum of 12.0 "will be in favour of Billy Boy in the Wellington Steeplechase, a race he won last year with 11.3. . '< , When W. Stone set up. in the' North Island as a trainer last season, he secured a lease of the Riccarton gelding Tautbow, by Arrowsmith, from Dame Straitlace, but never raced-him. A few | months .back Tautbow was returned to his Christchurch owner, Mr. F. Williamson, who has now leased him to Miss M. C. Wilson, of Reefton. He is an inmate of C. G. McCarthy's stable at Riccarton and under this young trainer's able guidance is likely, to develop into a useful performer if he can be kept sound.

After service on the staff of the "Tiniaru Herald" since leaving school, Mr. C. E. Hassall has .tendered Ma • resignation as sub-editor, a position he has filled for about ten years. His resignation will lake effect' from the beginning of August. Mr. Hassall'a services will not, however, be altogether lost to the "Herald," as he will remain on the staff as a special sporting writer.