TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 6

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

- 1.! heritage is to have any chance with- Kmnoull in the Derby he should be capable of winning the Riccarton Handicap on Saturday. Win-and-place betting will- be in operation at Riccarton, Hastings, and Whangarei on. Saturday. : ■■: Half Note, a surprise winner at Riccarton in August, is certain to catch more notice in the Linwood Handicap on Saturday. He has had only a singlerace between the meetings, when he was unplaced at Wingatui last month ii. W. Savage, who has been engaged tor Treasure Hunt in the Apprentices' Handicap at Riccarton on Saturday will have to put up a penalty of 101b' as he has now ridden over the limit of thirty winners. Savage will also be on Sea Fox in the Stewards' Handicap. According to a Hastings report Padishah and Hunting Cat left on Tuesday to fulfil engagements at the Cup Meeting. Hunting Cat will come in on the later days. Golden Dart, who heads the weights for the Apprentices' Handicap at Riccarton on Saturday, did his last racing at the Geraldine Meeting, where he was a winner on the first day. He is a six-year-old son of Arrowsmith and the brilliant Finland mare Fmera. Grand Review was just beginning to drop down in the weights, when she came out at Rangiora on Labour Day and won the final event with 8.9. reduced to 8.4 by an apprentice allowance. As a result she has gone back to top the list for the Linwood Handicap on Saturday. Prior to her recent success she had been o(T the winners' list for fifteen .months. Haut Monde will be ridden in the Stewards" Handicap by J. A. McFarlane. and Silver Streak definitely by B. H. Morris. Tout lo Monde's Cup rider will be A. C. Messervy, and Vanestep's will be R. Marsh, who will also be on Grey Honour in the Stewards'. It is interesting to note that Cuddle and Kiltqwyn, though they belong to totally different branches, are both members of the Bruce Lowe. No. 20 family. It is a family that is not widely represented in the Dominion. Marabou, who won Tuesday's Mel- ' bourne Cup. is a member of the Bruce Lowe No. 8 family, and in this connec- ; tion it is interesting to. observe that the ■ only representative of this family whe : is engaged in Saturday's New Zealand ! Cup is Tout le Monde. The No. 5 ■ family (Vintage, Coliente, and Tuirau) ' and the No. 5 family (Argentic, Vane - step, and Sunee) have three representa 1 lives each. Some Melbourne and Sydney trainer: [ are desirous that they should receive 1 a percentage of the riding fees of then 5 apprentices. Last week a deputatior " waited on the V.R.C. committee am asked that a rule to that effect shoulc be incorporated in the Australian Rule: of Racing. At present a percental from apprentice;--' earnings can b< managed by private arrangement b^ their parents. In reply the V.R.C chairman, Mr. H. Alan Currie. said tin i suggested amendment to the rule: 3 would receive consideration at thi i annual conference of the principal rac - ing clubs during Melbourne Cup week