TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 8

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

' Might, after a short spell' since midDecember, made his reappearance on the Trcntham track yesterday morning looking very well. Autopay was in light physic over the weekend, but he 'will "be1 taken up again during the week and will probably be^a participant at the Taranaki Jockey Club's Meeting next week. Dombey, who was purchased by Mr. W. C. Simeon, of Waitotara last week and rah in "hi* colours in' the; Highweifiht at Trentham on Saturday, has joined Silver Wings in the stable of W. Grindlay it Hawera. • ' ■ • i The three-year-old Gate Crasher, a bay gelding by Intruder from the Grand Parade mare Ail 'Bright, is now being regularly forked "by T/.-.R. George for his patron, Slr..vW., Higgins, who holds him on lease Erom'Mr., jj. L.Riddiford. ' > The .yearling Hunting Sojig—Tinp Atua colt bought :6jrMr. C. Boyle last weekend will''be taken" ito .Melbourne in a fe? weeks' time; .Mr. i Boy lev will probably settle in Victoria. '•• ~■;.-. .. ~ •: : Minogj one of the unfamiliar, names among the maidens at. Wanganui .tomorrow, is a four-year-old :bay mare by 'Arattsio from the King Mark mare Europa, the-dam also of Gortyn (dam of Sabatini). She is: owned and trained by 3VIr. H. Theodore, of Wanganui, and she has,,had pnly'one,race yet. ri ' '.). ;; Trimden, ajipther, unfamiliar runner for (She Kai iwi ■ Maiden ■Hace at Warigaritji iomorroTV, is a three-year-old bay' filly by t.Tea Tray . Svotn/ the j AustraJian-bred Maltster mare Agriestes, and she is owned by ljer breeder, Mr. E.; Tonkin, of. Nelson, for whom she is being trained by H. J. Batterf at -Feildingi She-recently had her first "staTt at Ashhtirst, where she was i;ank outsider, jn the novice event; . '.." ■ LadyHoariri: ; iB'an entrant for the>. Maiden 'Race- at > Wanganui tomorrdw,'as'sheinUstbe one of' the first ,df the Antagonist horse'Hoariri's progeny -to race.v, She is -a,threeryeat-Qld, bipjvn .filly put of a mare givgn, as War Scrip, about whom nothing is at ipregent ascertaihable. She" is being raced o,n._ lease by Mr. D. R. Falconer, of Wanganui,' and she will be 'making her'initial public appearance. : Two'of the -maidens- engaged at Wanganui are visitors from Te Awamutu. They iare True Measure, a six-year-old brown gelding by Prince Merriwee, and Valmaiina, a nine-year-old bay mare by Valkyrian. [ The former is owned by Mr. A. Ghnffeny and the. latter by Mr. H. Maxwell; each being owner-trained. The roan gelding Absent, winner of the Gloucester Steeplechase at the Auckland Summer Meeting, is being given a spell on ■iifs owner's property in the I'e Aroha ilisttict. Onjpccasions-tKis geaspn Absent has beer} ]aine|7"nfter contesting steepleeliase events, arid his prospects of; surviving;a BoKd preparation are uncertain. However, his latest form has been good'and warrants the spell that has been allotted him.

Advice has been received by Mj. W. J. Short, secretary 'of the Franklin Racing Club, that the approval of the Racing Conference had - been granted for. the use at Piikekohe on:Monday, March 4, of the Bay of Islands Racing Club's permit in accordance with.the plan for the amalgamation of the two clubs. A two daysi meeting will be held, and £lS7!i and a trophy valued at £20 will be given in stakes. The chief race will be the Frauklia Cup, of £300.