TURF NEWS IN BRIEF ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 8

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

X Wotan does not go to Australia he may not race again this season. With so many good two-year-olds about this season it might pay one of the leading clubs to, stage a champion two-year-old plate during the autumn. C. East,wood is going to Fordell with D. Marks' when the latter takes up his Sosition there-as trainer to Mr. W. Me A. luncan.

Palatinate," who has been on the easy list at Wingatui since his return from the Wellington Meeting, is being taken tip again, and he will be shod with bar shoes in a,n> effort to save his heels, which have been, a source*of trouble.

'According to a Riccaiton report, Quietly has lejoined the active members of S. Barr's team after an. enfoiced spell brought about by a^biuised foot when racing at Invercargill. • .W-. Jenkins has been engaged to ride Cleaner and Royal Sceptic at tho C.J.C. Midsummer Meeting. Jenkins won the New Zealand Oup<pn Steeton. ,' .'■Mr.'W. .H. Gwisford tiained his own hordes-, Secrecy and King's Lancet, for the ■Waiioa' Meeting last week, and gained three firsts-and a second with them. Passion Fruit has had to be eased in his training'due to the haid tiaeks, causing continued soreness. He has been sent out to his owner's faim in Hawke's. Bay until the autumn.

A report from Hastings states that T. F. Quinlivan, "who has been on the tetired list for a few seasons, is again taking out a trainer's licence, and it is on tlie eaids that a well-known membei of the Racing Confeicnce executive will place a couple of horses "wider his charge. Mr. "Thomas McKay, who is now approaching his 100 th biithday, has been invited by the Dunedm Jockey Club to be its guest- at the 'Cup Meeting. In his day^ Mr., McKay was in the foiefront as a \ rider over'tences when fences were fences and required courage and capability to"' get over them. Some of the younger generations of the family are amoug the trainers at Wingatni and in Southland.

At a. luncheon at Epsom (England), lecently, it was decided to form an Epsom Trainers' Association, and the Austiahnn Stanley Wootton was chosen chairman. There were approximately 300 horses, in training at Epsom under Jockey Club mlcs, last year, when tho cenlro tinned out the winners of 177 races and £38,771 in stakes.

"Pop."—W., £2 13s. "R.W."-G.G,, £1 lGs.