TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 125, 29 May 1934, Page 4

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

The leading horseman L. J. Ellis failed to add to his tally at the South Canterbury Meeting last Saturday.

Gustavo's success at Washdyke on Saturday was his first since he won the President's Handicap ut Dannevirke on December 16, 1931. He is now owned by Mr. L. C. Hazlett and ho was at the stud last bpring.

The old-system of betting (75-^25) will be in operation at Auckland and'Otaki on Saturday The Dunedrn Meeting will continue with win and place

A. Russell, one of the apprentices of F. YD. Jones, will \be riding at the Dunedm Meeting So far he has been engaged to handle Totolomai 4 and Slaemish'.

Ruanui, who was recently sold out of the Fordell stable, will be running for,the fiist tune in Ins new colours at Otaki. He is now tiained at Hastings by W. D. Young, and ha^ been doing satisfactoiy work on the tracks there,.-

It is understood that Silver Streak and Gold Knight aie definitely booked for the Auckland Wmteri Meeting. Silver Streak got into a bad position in the Farewell Handicap at Washdjke on Saturday and failed to show up at the business end of the race. '

Conversion is the name that has been claimed foi Mr. H. F. Wood's yeaihng biown colt by Paper Money from the Geneial Latour maie Pepper Pot. He'has been broken in and is now in easy woik under E. Simpson's chaige at Tientham. Autopay, -who was blistered some time ago, is still enjoying hjs- let-up, and it will be some time -he is required to resume woik. No plans will be made- lor his future racing till it is known how he has leiponded to his present treatment.

Betting at Washdyke last Saturday -was under the old single-pool sj stems, with

two dividends only. H. Cutte passed through Wellington on his \iay?Jnoith to Auckland at the iveekend with Copyist and Scarlet Rambler. Eebel Star was also making the tup to Elleishe

Silver Scorn's owner-trainer, F. T Cush, ■states that the filly is thmrng on her

holiday at Piospectt (N.SW.). She is running out in the paddock during the day and is boxed at night and is a picture of condition.

Adult, who earned the "colours of his trainer E J. -Ellis when he began , his hurdfing career recently at Waunate and Washdvke last month, contested the Levels Hurdles at Washdyke on Saturday in the jacket of Mr. A. II Wardell He ran another, second and he should soon collect the mam end of a stake for his new owner. s The well-known 'Austiahan jockey, A. Knox, who is at the head of the Sydney winning jockeys' list for the season, -under■n ent an operation for appendicitis on l^ay Mia Stella's trainer-jockey, J. Smith, w;as a visitor to the tiacks at Ellerslie last Thursday, and was still limping as the result of his fell last Saturday. However, he expects to be recovered in time to ride Mia Stelia in the Great Northern Hurdles. Mia Stella came through his racing at Te Bapa satisfactorily, and,.will be sent to Ellerslie on Thursday week. > It was recently stated that the New Zealand-bred hm^ler Our Comfet, who^has been lacing well'in Melbourne ninder lease, would revert to^his "Auckland owner, Albert Rhodes. Mr. T. J. Gaffney, ,-who has been iacmg< the son of Day Comet, has, however, now- been given a furtherlease of the gelding. ,Our?Cpmet.is among the early fancies foi\.the^ Victoria. Grand National Hurdjes. ""* ' The American1" hor§e Gusto whose special mission* is said tp be the Ascot Gold Cup, had'his .first nm r in England "in the Coventry Plate, a mile race, at'Kempton, on March 31.'"He had 9 7,-but, though there was a'-httle money for him >in -a field of eight,L'he managed to finish no neaier "than fdurth. However, that failure would scareelyMjtell .-{gainst him, as he is not a miler, a much longer distance to show to ad^antage.