TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 119, 16 November 1933, Page 10

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

■ The first race at.Carterton on-Saturday starts at 11.45 a.m. Wm-and-placo betting will be in 5s and' lOs-'umts.' '

Mr. A. 'Tronson has been appointed judge ,tc- the Bay or Plenty Jockey 'Club. This is another of 'the judge-handicapper club's that have had to separate the' two' positions. .

One of the biggest disappointments at the recent C..T.C. Meeting was Argentic, •«ho,.instead of improving with each laoe, as anticipated, ran progressively worse. He resumed only a short while before the ineeting and possibly his first .day's race found bottom in him temporarily.

Kedtop's mily success 'to date was in the Novice Stakes at. Cafterton last year, and he willbe racing qgaihiifc the meeting on Saturday,' where he has two engagements. He is now trained by L. Daly at Opaki, and ho would require to improve very little on his sixth in the champion hack heat at Trentham to go near registeung his second success. •■' Xavalio' customarily laces well when ira.li. and any repetition of the brilliance he displayed in finishing a close thn d to Golden Wings and Croupier in the Shorts Handicap at Trentham last month would have Equitant, Aiguille, and Co. thinking hard in the Bunny Memorial Handicap at Cartel ton on Saturday.

Aiguille, who claims an engagement at Oarterton ou Saturday, is owned by the Gisborne trijiner •T.'yy'- Nixon, ;ivho patronised meetings, ill\these. parts'with this horse and Kahunbko twelve months ago. Aiguille improved with 'each vrk-e-nt Ti'enthiini last month. £ri.isliing "rislit'.iiipifour'th in the Poiiree Handicap, on the.final day. Last year Nixon was successful, with Ka.hunoJce at Cartorton. ~';.- ; ' ;.•

Ttteho months ago the fl\iuitalii ILicTT1 TTiiixlicjp at C.irteiton yon lor j\lv. W. R.-Kcmbnll hv Greenhorn, ■\\lio lind previously had only ;i couple of btavt«. find the tacp showed Greenhorn as a inrtsfc iisoful lujidioapppr in the makings. Tlik yoar JNTr. runnorin the race will bo another pure novice tluec-ye.ir-old, Windward, a bay ppldin^ by Gaiiiscomt fiom Mif-s tidstins&'s flam. Arbitr.ition. Windwaid ran one second in five staits last season and has not jet raced tins'* term. As usual, the Zealand Cup was the biggest betting race at the recent fI.J.C. Meeting; -the totalisatov investments amounting to £7096 10s. On the- same dny a fiuui of £6201 10s was handled on the Stewards' Handicap, and this j remained the second largest total until the final event of the meeting,-the Members' Handicap, on which the investments reached £6841.105. . ' '

Mail advices from Melbourne show that when the New Zealand filly Golden Hair won at Moonee.Valley on October 28 she was the medium of a bipr betting coup tli.it took thousands of pounds' out of the ring. I/011'g prices were secured early in the bettins on the race, and.she-was backed down to a third of the original, quotation. Among Hie single wnffevs laid were £1000 and £500 at a double-figure pric«.