TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1933, Page 25

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Main events at Randwick on Monday will be the Metropolitan Handicap and the Breeders' Plate (for two-year-olds). Previous New Zealand winners of the Metropolitan have been Maniapota (1905), Solution (1906), and Star Stranger (1926). Denis Boy won last year from Rogilla and Lough Neagh. Previous New Zealand winners of the A.J.C. Breeders'' Plate (established 1906) have been Boniform (1906), Almoner (1917), Nincompoop (1924), Gold Tinge (1928), Movie Star (1930), and' Limarch (1932), an excellent record.' No' known New Zealander is-in Monday's field. Racing in the Dominion next week will be held by the Dunedin Jockey Club (Thursday and Saturday) and by the Otaki Maori Racing Club (Friday and Saturday). There will be trotting at New Brighton. Blood disorder is the popular complaint among horses at present. Now Silver Ring is being treated for it* Some day an elaborate name may be- claimed for it, so that all horse* may have it without suffering any indignity. ( The home .turn on the course proper at Hastings has been plougbed up and regraded in the parts where, continual topdressing had built-up the.inside of the track gather dangerously. El B6a, a sister to the Winter Cup winner, Mount Boa, is to be mated this season with the Stonyhurst sire, Day Comjet, probably in the hope of breeding a good jumper. : ,: Admiral Drake, who is now in P. T. Hogan's stable, at Washdyke, has been standing up'to a lot of work without showing any recurrence of lameness. He was due ,for a race at the Kurow Meeting today.' Irish Lancer has suffered from soreness since he returned to Wingatui from Orari, and will require a spell, states a Dunedin report. Gallant For will also have to be'eased up for a while owing to lameness contracted on the same trip. Minerval' is going on well in his work at Riccarton, and, though he has not been stretched out very far yet, he is putting plenty of {jasu into his_ sprinting tasks. He has done no racing since last November, when he ran second to Fast Passage in the New Zealand Cupybut if he trains on he will have to be reckoned with in some of the big handicaps this season, Cranford has had an easy time since he raced at the Grand National Meeting last month, states a Christen urch. report. T. H. Gillett has been more concerned lately, in building him up, and he may be an improved horse when he resumes racing. later in the, season^ • ,He has great speed and he requires only, to produce a little more stamina to win£oojd riices up to a mile. '■ •■■ - -.'.',