TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1934, Page 6

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Nominations for the New Zealand Cup, to be run on November 3, close with the C.J.C. secretary on Friday evening. Tha Tractor maro Turbine, who is engaged in the hurdle race/at Wingatui on Saturday, is a sister to Water Power. Nightlass who will content tlic- Debutant Stakes at Wanganui ucxt month, will be the first of Nightmarch's progeny to race. She possesses a head remarkably like that of her redoubtable sire. The Trentham trainer J. W. Lowe intends to leuve for Wanganui next Monday with Red Sun and Sunee, as the track there should bo better for training on at present than the Trentham course. Chhota has become difficult at the post, but hhe walks about with an apparently placid temper when brought to the track, says a southern writer. She looks none the worse for her racing at Biccarton, and an improvement in her barrier manners would, make her dangerous in. a race. Bellbroney, who 33 now being trained at Trentham by D. McCauley, has resumed after her short let-up looking in fine order for the new season. She possesses a torrent of speed when well, and she may prove a good stake-earner for Mr. A. M. Farnall this term. From present indications there should be no Jack of horses to make up good iields in hurdle races at southern spring meetings this season. There was pleuty of material for the hack hurdle eveuts at the Grand National Meeting, and additions to the jumping ranks may be expected. " 1 '" The Songbird gelding Witui, who is engaged in tho Otago Hunt Club Steeples on Saturday, is a half-brother to Barrington, who made a good showing to finish fourth in the Grand National Steeplechase. Witui won the Pareora Steeples at the South Canterbury Hunt Meeting last month and: the Hunt Cup Steeples at the Christchurch Hunt Meeting early this month,-' '.. ; v:. : ...■,'.. \ Apparently Kapuna has not yet finished with racing, as a Dunedin report States that hia owner, Mr. J. A. Gaffaney, on the advice of his trainer, F. Shaw, has an idea 'of keeping him going with a view to sending him north at Christmas to contest the special steeplechases at the Auckland Summer Meeting. Kapima returned to''Wingatui quite sound-after his racing at Riecavton. According to a northern report, good progress is being made with the improvements to the racing track on the Gate Pa course at Tauranga. When the work is completed the whole track will be level and the turns banked. The cost of the work will be about £400, and the improved track should' add to the popur larity of the Bay of Plenty Jockey Club's fixture with owners and trainers. , The following are among the riding enI gagements for the combined Hunts Meeting at New Plymouth this week:—S. Tremain, Prince Reno. Moatoa, and Chikara; C. Browne, Lady Zinnia; F. Fergus, Sleepy; B: Sullivan. Flower Bag; N. Trillo, Ruaform; A. Gilmer. Kaola; and I. Tucker, March Alone, Cynical Kid, and Harvest Moon.