TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Issue 149, 20 December 1935, Page 20

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Acceptances for the-first day of the Wairarapa Meeting are due at 8 o'clock this evening. „:■ ;., ■ • ' .. The-hew. owner of . Arctic Star is> Mis. M.'.W.Shiel, whose colours are carried. by Lycidas and Unseen; Prince. .VenV.w'as scratched-;for the Railway Handicap at the Auckland Racing; Club's Summer .Meeting;-at 4.45 p.m., on Tuesday. ' ' '"' : General Quex, a four-year-old son of Lord Quex, who failed last season to live up to his two-year-old promise, has been leased by Mrs. WC D. Graham to-Mr;,p."-:RV. Jackson, the well-known WaVe.riey ari>ateur rider; ' ' : Distinguished,' a three-year-old Lack-ham--G,reat 'Lady gelding, will ' next race in the 'ownership of 'Mr. M.. D. Gillon, of Wellington, who has'?-regis-tered his jacket- as black, dark, green band, cuffs, and collar. •■: R.Beale will have the mount on Black Duke at Wingatui. It has been a successful association, but the combination recurs because Heather Glow will not be a starter. The seven-year-old mare Brown Pearl (Thespian—Hine Pango), formerly a member of P. T. Hogan's team at Washdyke, has been leased by Mr. J. L. Cheeseman, of Wellington, and will join T. R. George's stable. Mr. C. Boyle, who has been training his horses at Levin for some time past, is transferring to Auckland, where he has taken a temporary appointment for six months. He will continue his interest in the Turf, training his horses at Ellerslie. •" The name Donnelly, figuring among those engaged in the Trial Handicap, to be run at Wingatui, has been disallowed. \A change has been made to Whirr. ■ ' ■ ' ■ Additional riders for Ellerslie are:— R. W. McTavish, Gay Broney, Galilee, Gallio, Anion', arid Karohia; A. Tinker, Wagner;' and R.; Messervy, Tybalt. Maorilander Takakua is just a "have" (says an . Australian exchange), and the sooner Vpitre stops riding him the sooner the public will stop throwing their money away on him. ' .'■'■■>'■ Lindsay Faulkner, who was apprenticed to.R. Hatch.at Awapuni and who went to Melbourne' some time ago, joining the. stable of Mr. T. McGrath, is expected back in the Dominion in a few "days, and already he has been offered a position by a leading trainer. What "actually occurs in a'race may be-due to,riding instructions, but that does-riot alter the fact of what takes place in-:the running. T*e onlooker has "to base/an opinion on facts as they appear, and may not have the faintest idea of the nature of the riding instructions. . .