TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 87, 9 October 1935, Page 8

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

On Monday-; New" Zealand owners, with a blanfc; sheet,-had-'their worst second dayat' an A.J.C. Spring Meeting for manyeyears.

Auckland papers show that it was Lady Ruler, not Triune, who was third in the final event at Taumarunui last Saturday.

':■ ■ Erua, who claims engagements at the Masterton Meeting, is a three-year-old, chestnut gelding by Cape Horn from Vuelta, dam also of Cigar, and he is owned by Mr. J Jameson, who may. later send him to Melbourne.

Cerne Abbas and' Document, who are engaged in the McLean Stakes at Dunedin tomorrow, are youngsters from F. D. Jones's Riccarton stable.

The Stratford Racing Club has been granted permission to change its New Year dates from January 1 and 2 to January 1 and 4, a Wednesday and Saturday.

Among the mares that have been mated to Autopay this season is that good Kilbroney mare Degage, and it is hoped ,that the, resultant progeny ■will; inherits, the, valuable combination of brilliance and stamina.

■I;Spy, the winner of the Novice Plate at the KurowVMeeting last Saturday, was sold byv Mr. J. Richardson at a cheap hack, price because he failed to show, anything good enough to keep him in:training.'.-..He was got by Rosehor from Spyglass, by San Francisco from Telescope by. Martain.

High Grader, jWhp ricked a shoulder muscle badly wh6h.,racin« at the Wellington Winter Meeting, :1s in work again at Hastings, arid will make his reappearance in public in the hurdle -events at the forthcoming Spring Meeting1 at Trentham. *

Latitude was ridden to victory in the Gillies Handicap''at Kurow last Saturday by H. W. Hibberd, who was having his first success in a race. The lad, 'who is apprenticed to F. Christmas, shows a lot of promise. He is a son of W. Hibberd,; who will be remembered by many people as a trainer at Riccarton.some.years ago. : :

The next time that Top Rank races it will be for.a new owner and from another stable. Messrs. W.: O. and D O. Rutherford have tired of the Chief Ruler gelding and have disposed of him to Mr. G. Loffhagen, who has placed him with J. Tomkinson. Top Rank has done a lot ot useful work lately on his owner's farm in North Canterbury, but he will need some sharpening up before he is ready to race.