TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1933, Page 6

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Havcring's lecommendatiou for the schooling list is a heavy blow tor his connections, as Feilding running indicated that he was fast coming back to his best, form. He looked last week in. splendid^ order to face the holiday campaign. After his race in the Feilding Stakes last week Inflation' was~again-a very sore.. hovse, and fov the present it would look a hopeless task .-attempting to ..keep him going. '" ■ . ■ ''.■.-•■. -;: -. .-.■. ■;■■ '" The attendances at ,Feilding last week, were not unusually latgeVnor were . tho fields of undue size, but on each day the totalisator closed for the final event over half an.hour after schedule.. , , '.'." :, '■■'■ Note Issue, referred to as a. brptli'or to Dole in the report on the: Feilding Meeting, is a filly and hence a full-sister to Dole. She was bought for 200gs at the sales last January by Mr. N. Blackmore, and the colours she carries al-e the same as those successfully borne.a few- years ago by Mandane, whom Mrs. M. M-. Blackmore used to race. : Riccarton reports state that Nightly is again causing F. D. Jones some anxiety, owing to a recurrence of the lameness that troubled him earlier in the season. It is hoped, however, that his preparation for Auckland will not be seriously interrupted. J. W. Jennings, who was in hospital as a result of injuries received when Tout le" Monde fell in the Metropolitan Handicap on the final day of the New Zealand Cup Meeting, is home again. He is making good .progress, but will not be fit to resume riding for some time yet. On top of late closing times, the final race each day at Feilding last week took a lot of dispatching. Havering's determination not to. go into line .right end first was undoubtedly the original cause of the trouble, but it was not long before they were nearly all at it. There were .races too in which the jockeys, keen fov a fly at the badly situated barrier, did not (appear to assist the starter. ;

One horse who is going to keep owners from meeting engagements in future races is Esteem, who lashed out freely each day in the fnal events at Feilding and more than, once found a mark. Speed was unlucky enough to stop his flying heels two or three times on Saturday. It is not the first* time' that Esteem has so displayed his affection for his equine friends; for two years ago in the Manawatu Cup he was responsible '", for King Colossus and Ephialtes going out of action for considerable periods.

In New South Wales last month the racehorse Alpen, with H. Woellner and C;TShannon (also known as J. M. Buckley), were .disqualified for life, by the Western District Racing Association. Alpen was rung-in at the Cowra Meeting as JPhast Loo. It is stated that he was worked under a wrong name at Warwick Farm and also that he worked on private land where Simba, principal figure in the Gagoola ring-in sensation; was galloped.