TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 25

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Handicaps for--the Wellington 'Winter Meeting arc due on Thursday next. 7": Weights for the principal spring handicaps* in Australia are':due on Monday. ' Racing next week will be conducted bythe Manawatu Hunt Club' at Awapuni on Wednesday, and by the Oamaru Jockey. Club at Oamaru on Saturday.' Slippery, showed at Greemneadows on , Thursday that he may prove the best representative of hi. dam (Royal Moment); .who has already left good ones* in Royal Damon, Royal Routine, and Royal Bunting. • .■ ■ . ,-..,:,.. ■■■:-: Slippery's eleven . wine to * date this season make him the leading horse in the Dominion: this term so far as number of successes are.concerned. Imperial Fame did best with> this ntimber. last. ;_eason, and by ■ fcoinciderice another Hawke's ' Bay horse, Mahpira, was onjtop. With the same number two season^ ago. Three eeasons ago Maori Boy's.tally of nine was best. Desert Starjwasjto have been accompanied to Sydney, by. the Musketpon gelding Mustang, but it was finally ._ decided not to send the latter.. The trainer of the pair, C. E. Mallowes, went in. charge of Desert Star,,'who'.;.iwill'*. begin racing across the Taßmin :-veryYitod_;i after his arrival, if all goes well with him.' The Irish horse , Lord Argosy, whose few successes in New Zealand include the C.J.C. Middle Park Plate, has been showing promise in schooling efforts* of, late, and will make his next appearance on the Turf in a hurdle raceV

. When A. I). Webgter leaves early next month -with his team for Sydney he will be accompanied by the Wanganui horseman, J.. Barry, who will do some o£ the riding of the team. T. Webster,will, also be one of the party, and no doubt',will ride when the weights suit. The steeplechaser West' Dome is qualifying with the Birchwood Hounds this winter!. .Two seasons ago West Dome, following' a win over Riccarton country, promised to take high rank as a cross-country, performer, but went wrong in a shoulder. The long period of rest is said to have brought him' Bound again. Mrs. F. Thompson, who lost the wellbred mare Evening (half-sister to .Pillow Eight) recently, had a further stroke of bad luck last week when Shamata, in attempting to jump a fence from one paddock to another, broke her neck. Shamata was a three-year-old filly by Shambles from the Sunny Lake mare Matata, and was bred at, Gladstone Park by '-Mr. G, A. Kain. For the Victorian Grand National Hurdles, to be run on July 1, Belar, liynden, Walter. Scott, and Sub Rosa were' the ruling favourites a week ago. For the Grand National Steeplechase, run a week later, the favoured four were Redditch, Solo King, Bannya, and Precocious. The leading rider o£ tho jumpers*, R. Inkson, has been engaged to ride the stable* mates, Lynden and Redditch.,