TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 128, 1 June 1935, Page 23

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Weights for next Saturday's Foxton Meeting are due to appear on Tuesday.

The Oaks. Stakes, the fillies' classic, will be run at Epsom next Friday.

The recent Grand National in England was a triumph for Irish-bred horses. Only six finished, and they were all bred in Ireland.

Mr. W. R. Kemball's private trainer, W. McConkey, has only four .horses in work at present at Trentham, but fourteen yearlings are due down from Masterton at an early date.

Prostration, who went amiss in Victoria and was returned to the Dominion, is back in work doing light tasks on the Otaki beach, and he will be sent over to Melbourne again if he remains sound.

The rising two-year-old colt by Acre —Jaffna, whose death occurred at Ellerslie last Monday, had just been operated upon under an anaesthetic. Suddenly coming to, he jumped to his feet, careered into a tree stump, and collapsed. Fine Acre continues to stand up to all the work required from him at Trentham, and it is probable that this good jumper will make his reappearance in steeplechase events on the coming Hawke's Bay circuit. Nova Scotia disappointed his owner (Mr. A. H. Southee) in his two races on the flat at Blenheim recently, but he may be- given a chance to redeem himself over fences at Foxton. He can jump, but unfortunately may not be a good winter proposition, as he does not handle soft going. Sir Thomas Wilford's four-year-old Grand Knight gelding Youssipof continues to make steady progress under J. Ayres's care at Trentham, and he is now rounding up into something iiKe a racehorse. It may be some months yet, however, before he is required to make his Turf debut. Totalisator investments on the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase aggregated £24,062 12s, and for the day £55,144 16s, which was rather ordinary considering the tremendous attendance. England's totalisator record for one race is still the £26,950 12s invested on the 1933 Derby. The mishap in the Opihi Trot at Washdyke last Saturday was inquired into by the judicial committee of the South Canterbury Jockey. Club. When about half the journey had been covered Bluff stumbled and fell, and Colonel Bogey, Self, Llewellyn's Pet, and Sky Wink were also brought down. The judicial committee decided that, in view of the conflicting evidence, it was unable to take any action, but it viewed with suspicion the driving of L. Frost on the winner Tncliff and of P. Gallagher on the serfbnd horse Royal Palm at the time of the accident.