TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 111, 6 November 1935, Page 6

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Autopay, after his short season at the stud, is back'in his quarters at Trentham, and he will be prepared again for racing. .

Kia Tina, who injured .herself in a fall on the fiat recently, has been brought in again by A. Goodman, who is not too. sanguine that she will stand up to a further preparation. If she fails she will go to the stud.

Sir Thomas Wilford's untried five-year-old maiden Youssipof . (Grand Knight—Sartovna)" is now beginning to look very well, and his trainer, J. Ayres, hopes to be racing him at the New Year. With a deep chest and short forelegs, he gallops with a very low action. ■

The Trentham trainer T. R. George is fairly hopeful about Cuddle'e chance in the New Zealand Cup, the only factor that concerns him being whether the mare is quite ready yet to see out the two miles. On weights he naturally believes Kiltowyn and she are the pick of the field.

Horn's Reef, who is engaged in the Spring Plate at Riccarton on Saturday, is reported from Invercargill to be in wonderful order at present, and it is confidently expected that he will pay his way on the trip.

According to a southern report, Shambles, the sire of Vintage, Shatter, etc., broke a leg on Monday while being loaded into a truck. An effort is being made to save him.

Additional riding engagements for the C.J.C. Meeting are:—H. N. Wiggins, Kotou, Plato. Kurapae; H. Goldfinch. Big Dook, Manetho, Dollar Bill, Document; W. H. Jones, Penelope, Princess Rawene; A. C. Messervy, Sky Pilot, Tail Light, Slasher; R. Beale, Polydora; B. H. Morris, Silver Streak (probably).

High Glee's useful gallop with Mount Val at Riccarton yesterday indicates that he has recovered from the trouble that prevented him racing on either day at Trentham, and he looks a likely sort for a stake at the Cup Meeting. He was suffering from kidney disorder last month, brought on during his trip from the south.

Apprentice races are notoriously difficult to. handicap satisfactorily, but one horse who does look well in Saturday's Apprentice Handicap at Riccarton is Sisterina. This mare began racing only last New Year, and she has recorded four successes, including open handicaps at Greymouth and Nelson, and a hack mile at Trentham in July, yet she has only 7.8 on Saturday. She will be ridden again by J. McCauley, who will have no penalty to carry. The poor showing of Caliente in her gallop at Riccarlon yesterday will disturb her earlier admirers, and if she does not do better tomorrow she will be at a long price on Saturday. It will be remembered that she also pulled un badly after her gallop prior to the Wellington Meeting, though it must be allowed that she went a fair race in the Pearce Handicap in her single start, at a distance too short for her.

• There are some good hncks engaged m the Spring Plate at Riccarton on Saturday, both among the three-year-olds and among the older horses, but at the special weights at which this event is contested it is very difficult to look past Valarth for the winner. At handicap conditions he would probably be giving away good weight to all the field, except possibly Beau Gallante and Manetho, who have no recent form.

Having received the use of the Tc Ai-oha Trotting Club's permit for Ihe season, ■the Cambridge Trotting Club is considering the question of racing nn January 11. which is the only vacant Saturday in thn Auckland province for racing or trotting for some time after the Auckland Summer Meeting. Tho date would provide a day in the slack period between the December and February meetings at Epsom.

that has been successful in getting stayers at Dominion studs. La Penna a daughter of King Rufus, was bred in the Dominion by Mr. G. M. Currie, but she was sold to Australia, whence her great grandam (Lady Agnes) had come at the beginning of the century Lady Agnes's descendants bred hefe have included Bronze (Wanganui and Egmont Cups and Great Autumn). Rational, and Veilmond (V.R.C. Derby, etc.). and another was Beau Soult. the sire of Bcauford. so it is sound enough breeding. Moreover. Kamal Pasha hps it also in his favour that he won at Gore recently, a meeting that in the last two years has seen the .■subsequent New Zealand Cup winner in action.