TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 23, 27 July 1933, Page 8

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

There is; a-'good-looking field engaged in the AVharangi' Handicap ;at 'Foxtoii on Saturday, but Foreign Queen,. With 8.8,' should touch a short price. She ■went seven furlongs in -winning the Crofton Hack Handicap under 9.12 at , Trenjtliam less than, a fortnight ;^so.. v .■ ■■•-.•:.

Punclic'stown, who won two hurdling events at South Canterbury meetings last week, was credited with being still trained by T. H. Gillett,'in whose, stable he was when he faced at the last New ' Zealand Cup Meeting, but particulars from the south show that he isnow in E. J. Ellis'* stable ;at Washdyke. :

One of the best displays ever seen by a 1 novice over hurdles was put up by National II at Washdyke last Saturday, says "Sentinel." He sailed into and over each hurdle like a veteran at the game, and it should not be long before he gets amongst the winners. An alteration has been made in the order of running the programme at the Christchurch Hunt Club's Sleeting, to be held at Riccarton on Saturday. The Aylesbury Trot will now be the second, and the. Maiden Stakes „ will be the third event. ■ ■■■•■'■ The Victorian jockey W. Duncan continues to make satisfactory progress from the effects of injuries received when Rose Valais fell at Williamstown in June. Although he will not resume riding for some time, his hopes are indicated by the fact that he lias applied for a renewal of his licence for the season beginning on August Willow Glen's'owner-trainer, Mr. T. V. Cooney, of Morveti, decided after the gelding's success at Wahnate to nominate him for the hack and hunters' steeplechases at Rieearton, but the trainer who was entrusted with the matter omitted to send in the gelding's name in time. Carinthia was taken out of the Grand National Steeplechase, as he.was not forward enough for 'such a task, but he is likely to run in the Enfteld and Beaufort Steeplechases at; the meeting, says the "Times." He jumped well in his debut as a steeplechaser at Washdyke last Saturday. ;.- ' _■-■ '" ■ _-. ' ' .The Dunediu owner, Mr. L. C. Hazlett, was represented in the Hunt Cup at Wai-mate'-by Tdoter', a five-year-old by Tractor from Callbird, but his candidate gave only a moderate display. Tooter. was engaged in the Pareora Steeplechase, at, the South. Canterbury Meeting on Saturday, but he broke down after being worked on the Washdyke.track on Friday.; .. An appeal by a Melbourne totalisator clerk, who', overpaid'an 'investor £12 4s on the second horse in" the last race at Caulfield on July 15, was answered three days later, when thor totalisator company received;,, a letter enclosing. the; -amount. On. the preceding .day a man ■./telephoned asking the name of the clerk who made the error, and when he explained his reason for asking it was supplied. The manager, in commending the honesty of the investor, recalled that there had been other instances in Melbourne where amounts overpaid had been returned.