TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 33, 8 February 1935, Page 6

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

ilarch^ Alone, yesterdays-hurdle, winner at New' Plymouth, had previously started over fences half a dozen times more than a year ago and he had finished in the money each time except once.

The .price of, admission to the paddock enclosure at Riccarton tomorrow will be only 2s 6d, which is easily the cheapest charge by any'metropolitan club in New Zealand or to any worthwhile meeting in the world.

The committee o£ the Auckland Racing Club has decided to install -warm, shower baths in the jockeys' room at Ellerslie. '

The' Marlbbrough. Trotting Club hopes to hold a meeting.on Saturday, March 9,, with'a programme consisting of'sevenraces/ Stakes will'total £380. Last season this club's fixture was staged at New Brighton in July,' when totalisator 'investments amounted to £10,162. Riding engagements for Rotorua tomorrow include: N. R. McKenzie, King Ford, Ford Acre, Alignment, and the. Raceful gelding; L. Dulieu, Lap Up; A.^Gilmev, Carshalton, Racela, Leo Colossus, Royal Dash; and H. Long, Limox. ,

Additional riding engagements for Iticcarton tomorrow are:—J. Veevcrs, Jerry Boy; L. J. Ellis, Honeste!, Hostis; A. S. Ellis, Courtyard; A. Messervey, Sky Rover, Doiran; and J. Fowler, • Quebec. . >

An alteration has been made in the running of the programme for the first day of the Rotorua Club's Meeting tomorrow, ami' the Arawa Park Stakes, originally arranged as the seventh event, will now be the first.' The other races will be run in the sequence in which they- appear in the programme. '

The. Dargaville Racing Club has been granted permission >by the New .Zealand Racing Conference to hold its Annual Meeting on its own course on April '4 and 6. The meeting -was to have been held early last December, but owing to lack of support it was abandoned.. The new dates have been arranged in order, to fit' in with the Whangarei Meeting on April 11 and 13.

Grecian Prince has been1 doing his .fast work on off mornings at Riccarton lately, and -on the way he worked over five.furlongs- on- Wednesday he should race prominently at tomorrow's meeting. He will find the 7.8 he is asked to carry in the Craven Plate rather a luxury after tho huge burdens ho carried so well on the West Coast circuit.

The Australian horsemen, J. Muriro; L. Davidson, W. McCarthy, Morris,' Walker, and C, Stead, are reported to have been riding with success in India recently. Stead, by the way, is a Sydney lightweight who was reported to haveibeen engaged for the Far Bast to pilot horses sheltered in the stable of L. H.Hewitt. '.