TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 127, 31 May 1935, Page 6

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Wotan, winner, at his. only start as a juvenile this season, has resumed work under T. R. George's care at; •Frentham.. * ; ,

_ The yearlings .that H. Telford has; been putting, through their early pre-; paration for Australian owners will be! shipped to their new'homes next week i

With Bobsleigh's going amiss, Lord; Derby will have to rely on his second string, Fairhaven, for next Wednesday s Derby. •Fairhayente only success in seven starts last season was in the Mersey Stakes, ,5 furlongs,, at Liverpool. ■ ■ ' ' ■':.■ •■■■ ■•':-'.

Fred Fox, who will ride the favourite, Bahram, in next, week's Derby,' is one.of; the veterans among present horsemen.'in England* .being nearly 50 years,of age.. His only Derby success so far was on Cameronian, in 1931.

, H Young Idea is nominated for the Melbourne Gup he is certain to be at the head of the three-yearrolds, probably receiving weight-for-age. Sylvandale is picked to-be the weigM-carr rier : among the four-year-olds, with about 9.0.

Mr. J. Kenny, who has been an official of racing in Sydney for about thirty years, will leave next-month for India, to take up a position as stipendiary steward and deputy handicapper to the Western India Turf Club.

An interesting attendant at recent meets of the Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club has been Flower Bag, who last winter gave promise of winning high honours as a steeplechaser until he went amiss. He now appears to be sound again, arid may shortly resume work. .

The following riding engagements have been made for the first -day of the Dunedin Jockey Club's Meeting-— A. Messervey, Royal Gallant, Sea Fox, Quite Soon, and Queen Dorothy; A Russell, Fracas and Grand Review; M. Kir.wan, Land Raid; L^J. Ellis, Latitude; and J. W. Jennings, McHeath.

According: to the trials he had been doing prior to the; Te Rapa races; Gloucester was. considered to-be a "certainty" for the second division of the maiden race,, but ;the heavy going is now held to have been against him and. if, that is the case, he will be worth following.

Mount Val, who ran second to Tail , Light in the Claremont Stakes at Washdyke last Saturday, is a four-year-old1 gelding by Valkryian from Ell Sorella, "who is best known: as the dam of .Mount Boa. The novice; has had several; races, but this was his best performance, and though he should pay his way he is not likely to reach the class of his'half-brother, who includes a. Dunedin Cup and a Winter Cup among his-successes.1

After being off the scene since the early part of the present season, Haakon is due to reappear in the Hunt Club Hurdles at the' Great Northern Meeting at Ellerslie on Monday. He won the Hunt Club Cup at that fixture twelve months ago, and a couple of months later ran second to Flower Bag in the Fakuranga Hunt Cup. He has done no racing since, but if produced at his best for the Great Northern Meeting, he should be worth following in hunters' events.