TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Issue 86, 11 April 1936, Page 19

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

The next annual meeting of the New Zealand, Racing Conference will be held on July 10. „ ' . Racing on Monday at "Wairarapa, Feilding, Auckland, Canterbury, Riverton, Waipukurau, Beaumont, and Kumara.

Mr. J. M. Samson has sold not only Penelope but also the three-year-old filly Greek Vase (Iliad—Lava), who is to go to Western Australia. Dawning Light has been taken in hand once again by W. Pine at Awapuni, but it is Pine's intention tO hack her about for three months. Her big frame requires .filling out. Mr. W. J. Moir, who has acted as timekeeper for the Canterbury Jockey Club for the last few years, has tendered his resignation owing to ill health, and Mr. R. Wallace has been appointed to take his place. It is reported that Grand Blow is | to be sent to Trentham to be tutored over fences, and he will join up with P. Burgess, who has had considerable success with Chile.

N. C. Trillo has been granted a three months' conditional jockey's licence by the' executive committee of the New Zealand Racing Conference. R. W. Watson, who recently returned from India, has also been granted a jockey's licence. • ■ Ruinette, who is engaged at Waipukurau on Monday, is a full-sister to the C.J.C. Stewards' winner Grand Sport, and she is also a grey. She impressed those who saw her at Hastings as likely to win a race before long. The Waipukurau Jockey Club always includes on its programme a race for amateur riders. This event is popular with some of the owners, although never taken as seriously as a betting proposition by the public. Condition is the deciding factor nine times out of ten, so for that reason John Charles will carry the confidence of the multitude on Monday. The Invercargill apprentice C. T. Wilson, whose term with J. A. Rowland will expire shortly, has decided to move to Riccarton, and will join up with C. Emerson's stable. He has been one of the most successful young horsemen in" the South Island in recent years.

Two objections followed the decision of the Santa Anita Handicap in California on February 22 last. After Mr. A. A. Baroni's Top Row had won by half a length from Mrs. F. A. Acarreaud's Time Supply, with Rosemount third, Time Supply's rider lodged an objection, as did the rider of Bosemount, but both were overruled.

Adelaide has for several seasons been deficient in competent jumpers, and it has been disheartening to see two of them in Kingstol and Sceutum out of action at two successive meetings (says an Australian writer). Sceutum, winner of the last Grand National Hurdle Race, was started at Murray Bridge over the brush a fortnight ago to.prepare him for the Great Eastern fateepjechase, but the gelding fractured a sesamoid bone, and it was found "pessary to destroy him. ~ ln,e^ e has been some doubt whether the King's Cup would be raced this year, but King Edward VIII, following the example of his late illustrious father has donated a gold cup, valued at £100 and the race will now be held S" n "S the Adelaide Cup Meeting of the South Australian Jockey Club at Mprphettville on May 9- !3, and 16. It will be the principal event on the final day of the meeting, and the S.A.J.C. has added prize money of £1000. ■