TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 95, 19 October 1933, Page 10

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

The Wellington Meeting will be continued on Saturday and concluded on Monday. \ Additional fixtures on Saturday will be the opening day of the Gore Racing Club's, Auckland Trotting Club's, and Greymouth Trotting Club's Meetings. On Monday the North Canterbury Racing Club (at Rangiora) will return to the one totalisator poolj and will pay out three dividends (70, 20, and 10 per cent.) when fields are nine or more in size. The Waikouaiti Racing Club has decided to use the old two dividend (75 and 25 per cent.) at its. Annual Meeting ,on New Year's Day. ■■.;■; :.■■'"•" '' '*■":''■'.'■ •'.;' It is considered.more than a remote possibility that a change> ; away.'froin; win-and-place betting willjbe i^ade at 'some North Island meetings: shortly. The item of main importance;, at Trentham on Saturday will be the Trentham Stakes, 1 mile, for three-year-olds. Among the possible starters are Red Manfred, Spiral, The Masquerader, Southdown, Guarantee, Nightly, Passion Fruit, and Catalogue, also Gay Sheila. Fairway was scratched for all his engagements at the Canterbury Jockey Club's Meeting at 3 p.m. on Monday. The New Zealand Cup was one of the races in which he figured. . • Payments for the New Zealand Cup and Stewards' Handicap, forfeits for classic events, and entries for minor events at the Canterbury Jockey Club's Meeting will close at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening. J. B. Pike • will ride Game Carrington in the Caulfield Cup on Saturday. This New Zealand-bred four-ycar;old appears to have run a (food race in the Caulfield Stakes last Saturday, and mail advices from Melbourne State that he hag been doing all his work in most impressive style. ' . . ■■ A Riccarton report states that La Poupee's, two-year-old full sister. Cup Bearer, by Tea Tray from Dancing Doll, developed trouble in one o£ her hocks white on her visit to Wfngatui this month. She is •having a spell, but P. McGrath hopes toi have her ready for .Christmas racing. Cup Bearer is small, and, though a speedy: galloper, she may be seen to the best advantage over short-courses. Motunau, who ran third in the Spring Stakes afj Washdyke last Saturday, and is likely toiraceon the later days at'Trentham, is a three-year-old filly by Limond from Eulalic, dam of Eupator. She was purchased by her present owner-trainer for 40 guineas at the Greenwood dispersal sale, and she had Had only one race previous to Saturday, at the last Chrifitchurch Hunt Club's fixture. Apart from her jbreeding credentials, she is.built on speedy lines, and should make good before long.