TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 144, 15 December 1933, Page 6

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Acceptances for the' first day of ) the Maiiawatu : Summer: Meeting close, at/ 9 o'clock, this evening. ■■'• ' .;, >. There is> a belief eiu'rent that; Rightly may be reserved,for tire Derby iii preference to: the, Auckland'..,Cup1 ;■ but he^va's never in the Derby^F.'>■■'■'. " : \" ■,;.. ■ .'■■■'•', , 1£ Minerval sMpes satisfactorily :in*'the Horor.ata Clip at • Riccarton tomorrow ; ; F.: Holmes will take him; north forthef AuckJand Gup, ' • :'■!■ ■' ' i; ■ ■■.'• ;;'' ' ■' Wanganui reports ftate.that Plateau has gone on.-the right way at;Fordell since,his Feilding Cup win, and ''lie,, is expected to take his placs in the Manawatu Cup. After'puling-' Light won ,the Final Handicap at' Moonee Valley this month,''her appi'entice rider, ID. Preston, was .'.susr pended from riding in 'races for three months for crossing the field'too Bharply soon after the start, ■• .■•;;. .. ■■ ;. . Tycoon, a new name ,inthp Trial Handicap, at Napier Park tomorrow, is .a .four-' year-old, gelding, by.:. Mercian .King 'from a. Californian mare, and, he is a '.halfbrother ,to High. Grader. Hp.'is held on lease from Mr.' 0. Nelson'by the Hastings trainer 'F.!:J. Corlett. *■'''. - '"-': Besides H. Cutts,' A.; McAulay, with Variant. Southdown,' and Guarantee, and C. Emerson, with Croupier, will be leaving Christchurch on their trip north to Auckland on Monday night's boat. F. D. Jones will start on a similar trip on Tuesday night with Nightly,' Shatter, and Control, anti he will be accompanied by T. Hobbs with Silver Streak. The Riccarton trainer A. McAulay, who is himself going to Auckland, has secured G. Salt to take True Shaft, Haere Tonu, Nightguard, and Water Polo to the Manawntu Meeting; after which , they may be raced at Marton. They/-will,leave.on the trip north next Friday.., , \ .. • ''■ '■;' \ The former Avondale, trajrier. W.'Stone has changed his quarters to ,Te Awamutu, arid he took over his new stables' this week. He has Teels and Solarium at present'in work, as well: asi a two-year-old filly Ruler Light. ; a' half-sister by Chief Ruler to Solarium.1 R. Inkson, Victoria's leading cross-coun-trj» jockey, is making a good recovery from 'the injuries he received when Redditch fell with, him at Flemington in August. He is now at the home of his s mother at Suribury, and is able to ride a hack'around the rqads. . ; •■;'■ ■ Sir ■ Pombal has1 lately been disappointing to 'Mri■ W. R;! Kemball, and he tias been disposed of for a small sum. He is now back at Trentham, where he is in L. | G. Browne's stable. ... The two. ■Trentham horses Red ,Sun and | Epigram have gone north' to t compete at the "Waipa. Meeting tomorfow, and'they will i-einajn' there till after the Auckland Meeting. Red Sun, who will be ridden by C, ''Gjouleßro', may require' a race, but Epigram should go very near success- in the Hacks Cup as he is-very fit. Colossical, wjio- was to have accompanied them, did not tnake the trip. ;< ;' ■■"•'■ ■' Silver.Song, an acceptor for the Trial Stakes at ;Napier Park tomorrow," is not, n's.her.'name might suggest,nda'uphter of Hiintirig Song. She is a five-year-old brown 'mare; by the Australian•:sire Norse Song (son of Land of Song) ..from the. Blague mare Silver Strand, so that she is a halfsister to Dombey, She is at present held on lease by thei, trainer W.. J; King from Mr. J. <J. Gate'nby.'who imported her dam, a'hd- to-morrow's will- be only her second ! ,race. ' .. ; , .• '■. : .• . ; Mana.Gift, who is likely: to. claim sQtncatterition in- the.Trial Handicap at Napier :Park tomorrow because he finished second ■to liavinik in 'a( division' of: the maiden event at.Hastings last.mqnth.'is a three-year-old brown gelding by Hunting Song from the Australian Sun mare Sungift, a half-sister to Belgamba, only winner on the record of the A.J.C., V.R.C., and S.A.T.C. St. Legers, and a full-sister to Snnee, one of J, W. Lowe's team at Trentham. He was lipujrht. privately by his prpsent owner. Mr. R. C. Little, from his breeder, Mr. R. H. W. Holden.