TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 151, 23 December 1935, Page 6

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Golden Chance's win in the £1000 Villiers Stakes at Randwick on Saturday was his first, success since his sale for 775 guineas last October. Some clubs still persist in the absurdity of malting maiden races sub-

lect l.° weight-for-age conditions. If anything, the weights in such races be the reverse ■of weight-for-"x ~,. . • An ■additional acceptor ior the Wairarapa Racing Club's Meeting was Pu- ?? ko;. 9-°- m llie Wharekaka Hack handicap. \ ,-■ The Stratford Racing Club will again use its own .variation of the win-ahd-place system at its meeting this year. The single-pool system of betting will operate at the, Waipukurau Jockey Club's Meeting.' The Arst race starts it noon, with 45-minute intervals. * ? he- Paladin SeldinS Te Ahuarangi, ho. ls working s° well at Wingatui sti?t- ed flve ,thnes -season without |™ wls^t'bv T^W I™w^ $£,„}?* Su^2 y 1 L^e-Eidel-«>rm by Bomform—Eidelweiss, by St. £•."< . ■ . • ■ ■ : F rinc? Acre has been training along satisfactorily at Te Rapa and with 7.2 "l the Railway Handicap on Thurs- ?? y muss be conceded prospects. Lack of recent racing may tell against him, but.- 1.4 will be recollected that he invariably races well fresh, At Hastings on Saturday, Passion Fruit (J. Leach), moving a little short -was sent a. mile in company with his ;Stable companion, Hunting Cat (H Callinan). The pair were abreast for "practically all the way, but:over the last ;half-furlong, when kicked up, Hunting ,Cat went ahead to finish a length to the good in lmin 48Jsec. Appearances go to support the Idea tthat Mungatoon will be landed at the ipost for the Auckland-Cup in good O rder. His work on the tracks has been /of the really consistent nature and al--though he has -been, registering good [times has not been riddSi out. Irlhis Kvork he carries, from. 87to 9 4 reoeat and will find his Auckland allot--1 ■.-•■•. ">r": I<ulu aiiyl "

ment (7J) a much easier proposition.

Southdown, who will be ridden in the Waikouaiti Cup by A. E. Ellis; is back to his best form, and he will'get another stake very soon, says a southern report.; His stablemate, Brevity, who scored his'first success at Hororata, is also worth keeping in mind for other engagegement during the next few weeks.

The winners of both divisions of the Juvenile Handicap at .the Moonee Valley Compensation Meeting on Saturday are New Zcalanders now settled in Victoria. Gay Brunette is now being trained for Mr. G. Courtney by S. W. Reid, and Remitttent is one of Mr. W. R. Kemball's juveniles in G. Jones's charge. '

In the first season the imported horse Royden was available to South Island breeders his owner agreed to take several of his service fees out of the winnings of the progeny. The result is that, on account of this "contingency" whenever two or more ,of them to which it applies meet in a race they have to be bracketed.

Yet another descendant of Instep was successful in Australia recently, when Mr. E. J. Watt's Architect won the Novice Handicap at Warwick Farm Aixhitect is a four-year-old horse by Doric from Lady Aura, by St. Anton from-Princess Aura, by Pistol from Auraria, by Trenton. Lady Aura won the A.J.G. Gimcrack Stakes for Mr. Watt in 1921. .-.-.-■ :... '

The New Zealand-bred Bunsby Gaze was expected to v/in the Bendigo Cup but could finish only fourth. He is owned by Mr. J. H. Lienhop; president of the Bendigo; Jockey Club, in part-nership.-with Mr. W. Vrowley, a member of the committee. Bendigonians stood- loyal to him to a man in the President's Handicap on the second day, and Bunsby Gaze atoned by winning easily by , two lengths.