TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 34, 9 August 1934, Page 10

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Acceptances' for the opening day of the C.J.C. Grand National Meeting are due at 8 o'clock this evening. ■'■'■■'.:

The Kangitikei Racing ,Club has applied for a, change of date for its Spring Meeting from October 31 to October 27. The (late now desired is tho Saturday after the Labour Day meetings.

Among clubs in the province that have declared for Saturday racing this season are Manawatu (though riot at . the' Autumn Meeting), Foxton, Woodville, and now Kangitikei. These .clubs up till recently preferred the local midweek halfholiday date.

An alteration' was made this year in the conditions of tho C.J.C. Cashmere Plate. It is now restricted to maidens, but as the qualification dates from time of entry Top Rank is eligible to start, in spite of his success in the Maiden Stakes last Saturday.

The field for this year's Grand National Hurdles includes two winners of the Cashmere Plate at previous Grand National Meetings; These are Royal Lineage, who won in 1927, and Rasouli, who won in 1930. Z ,; V

Two of : the1 Hororata • Stud marea to be offered at the bloodstock sale at Christchurch next week produced foals during last weekend. Eapina, half-sister to Rapine,: foaled a filly to Nightmarch, and Sennight,'half-sister to Pillow Fight," had a /illy foal by Philamov.

The death is reported of Mr! Cecil Wyrin-Williams, at one time in the front rank as a gentleman rider. He rode in the days when George; Murray Aynsley, S. H. Gollan, E. D. O'Rorke, F. 11. Claridge, and H. -Gourlay were conspicuous in the saddle.

H. Slddmore, who headed tho list of winning jockeys in the Melbourne metropolitan area last season, has signed up to ride for S. Murphy's stable for, two years. He .was. originally apprenticed to that trainer, and thori had his indentures transferred to J. M. Murphy. He is now a licensed jockey. .

Mr. 18. J. • Watt's '850 guineas "colt Egmont »(Lhhbnd—lmprudence) was turned out shortly: after his arrival in Sydney from New Zealand, and is not to race in the spring. That owner, however, has two other two-year-olds in G. Price's stable and both are in work. One is the filly Treasure Trove' (Gainseourt— Desert Gold), and the other l^anfare (Brazen—Three Cheers).

Scarlet Rambler, who promised by her recent efforts to develop into a good performer, has suffered a recurrence of a complaint that affected her in her early days, and Sir Charles Clifford has decided to retire her to the stud. By Day Comet from Brambletye, darn .of Thoi-ndale, Prickles, Sharp Thorn, and Brainbletorn, all good winners, this mare can boast of plenty of size, and should do we'll in her new sphere. , . „■ , .

At a special meeting of the Dnnedin Jockey Club-this week the-question of the charge to be made for-the use of the Wingatui Racecourse by the. Otago Hunt Club at its race meeting on September 1 was reviewed. The Hunt Club offered to hand .'Over the amount of the, refund under the Finance Act and to pay 10 per cent, of the net profits of the meeting. A motion to accept the offer was carried unanimously. •

The name of Wi Tindall, who races and trains a large ■ string of horses at Caulfield, including : the : useful performers Nellie's Tip, Astern, Snowncrc, and Bold Bid, is missing from the. list of training permits for the new season issued by the committee of the .Victoria Racing Club. As the rules state that no horse can be entered or run for any race unless it is trained by some person holding a permit granted by'the committee to train horses, it moans that TindaH's horses, will not be able, to take part in any lace.

Hall Mark's two-year-old sisrnr Lady Cynthia has been showing speed in her early sprints at , "Klemington and, hopes arc entertained that she will prove a smart galloper.-. Lady Cynthia, is to be raced by the Lord Mayor of Melbourne (Sir Harold Gengoult, Smith)* who holds her on lease .from her breeder (Mr. C. B. K'ellow). She is being trained by the veteran J. Scobie, who recently celebrated hifl seventy-fourth' birthday. ■"

The Marton trainer, L. G., Morris, has a large, team in work for spring meetings, and jt will not be for lack of quality if he'fails:t6 carry off some of the bis prizes in the hew season. Ida Merlin^, Hunting Oueen, Arena. Silent Bill. Constant Snn. Whyte Molyille, Cherry King. Dialogist. Carllnnd, Linuihis, and Cuvrajong, together with a Lord Quex filly, comprise his active brigade, and there are others to come in Inter on to fill the places of any who drop out. The veteran James Morris has Ethiop, Marlianette. Overcast, and a Nigger Minstrel—Vast -Acre thrcey cur-old under his cure.