TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 143, 14 December 1933, Page 14

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

The Xew Zealand Cup winner Palantua has had a rest since her Eiccarton triumph, and report from the south states that she will not be raced again till the Dunedin Cup Meeting in February. H. Cutts. has arranged to leave for Auckland on Monday, December 18, with Rocket, Cricket Bat, Copyist, and Horn's Reef. A. Cutts will start on his trip to Awapuni later in the week with High Rank, Heather Glow, and, Silly Owl. Great Star, whose injured heel has been suppurating again, has had his Auckland trip cancelled, says a Eiccarton message. .Grand Review will also now not be'makI ing the trip nprtli.' Mr. W. Higgins's two three-year-olds Safari and After Money, who recently returned from racing in Australia and joined up with E. Pope's team at Takanini, have settled down in their new quarters. They have had. a dose of physic, but are to resume' work this week with a view to racing at Ellerslie. The Bailiff, the older half-brother by Warplane to Aga Khan, has recently resumed work at Eiccarton after being off the scene for over two years, and, with Bowlands, he had his first gallop on Tuesday morning, showing that he has not forgotten how to step along by registering 50% sec for half a mile. The consistent Kiltowyn continues to get through his work in good style at Ellerslie, and he should be in fine trim for the Auckland Summer Meeting. He has been withdrawn from the Christmas Handicap, and now has two engagements, the Auckland Cup and the Queen's Plate, on Boxing Day. Unless present intentions are altered, his mission will ,be the Queen's Plate, in which he is to be ridden by A. Tinker. Twenty sires are represented in the I entry of eighty yearlings for the. Trentham sales next month. Iliad heads <the list with 15, and Chief Ruler has 12. Then follow Limond 8, Captain Bunsby 6, Siegfried 6, Martarma 4, "Posterity 4, Lord Warden 4, Grand Knight 3. Night Raid 3, Lord Quex 3, Lackham 3. Hunting Song 2. Valkyriau 1, Paper Money 1, Tea Tray 1, Nightmarch 1, Gascony 1, Gainscourt 1, and Pombal 1.