TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 26

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

The English flat racing season concludes with the Manchester November Handicap at Manchester today. Racing next week at Ashburton on Saturday, and at Feilding and Ellerslie (Takapuna Meeting) on Saturday and the following Monday. The only trotting fixture in the Dominion next week will be the Forbury Park Meeting on Thursday and Saturday. Stanchion was passed out of the ring at the Melbourne sales at 90 guineas, Isaacs at 300 guineas, and Korero at 275 guineas. The Surveyor mare Revision was sold under the hammer at 300 guineas when offered at the Melbourne Cup sales. . Unless he goes back to Australia in the autumn Wotan will have no chance of earning classic distinction. His owners did not enter him for any of the three-year-old races in the Dominion. It is stated that an offer of £3000 was refused for Sporting Blood during the Melbourne Cup Meeting. The price required was £4000. The committee of the Ashburton County Racing Club has decided to continue the John Grigg Stakes, for two-year-olds, and for next year's race the stake \»ill be increased to £300. Mr. P. D. McNab will act as starter at the Ashburton Meeting next -week, owing to the club's official, Mr. A. J. Hastings, being engaged at the Forbury Park Trotting Club's fixture on the same day. ; The Ashburton Club, in conjunction I with the Ashburton Trotting Club, has | enlarged and roofed in the open stand on the lawn enclosure, and this will now provide shelter for a large num-1 ber of people in the event of adverse weather. Mr. W. R. Kemball sold seven of his horses at the Melbourne Cup sales. Top price was made by Bachelor's Song, who was sold at 120 guineas. The next best price was the 110 guineas for Roseville, a three-year-old filly by Cape Horn from Bonrina. It is understood that the Tea TrayMarshland two-year-old has been sold to an Australian, sportsman, and that she is destined to leave for Sydney at an early date, says an Auckland report. This is an attractive filly, who in her early work showed distinct promise but was put aside for a couple of months. She is another member of P. E. Pope's team. The brood mare Iceball, who was purchased at Mr. W. R. Kemball's sale last year by Mrs. I. Barnes, of Manurewa, has thrown a colt foal to Cape Horn. Iceball is by Valkyrian from the imported mare Pebble 11, by Rock Flint out of Petual, and has previously given the Turf some well-known performers in Sastrugi, Snowball, and sir Quex. The colt recently foaled is stated to be a fine type of youngster. Argentic ran two solid races at the New Zealand Cup Meeting, a feature of his displays being his stamina. He was not so forward as some of his opponents when the meeting commenced, and he should be all the better for events ahead. S. Wilson, who rode him at Riccarton, has been engaged for him in the Auckland Cup