TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 13, 15 July 1936, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

W,eights for the Taranaki Winter Meeting are due to appear on Monday, and acceptances .will close next Wednesday evening. - The minimum weight for the C.J;C. Winter Cup remains at 8.0 this year. ' •\Thefe' are no *rehandicap conditions for. the C.J.C. Grand National Meeting this year. •' " " ;' • . . .

r: -The Defoe three-yearTOld Finhesko is reported to have built up recently and he :is do make his reappearance at the Manawatu Meeting.; ■ "According to a Hastings writer Glen Hossie is not staging a -very impressive come-back in his work, but he may betried once or twice again in races. ..Burglar has joined Mrs. J. Campbell's team*: at Riccarton, and will have his preparation.*finished - off- for hunters' races to be run during the next few weeks,' commencing- at Waimate -■ next Saturday. ■•'■ • ■■ • -.:•■'■•

The Gisborne trainer A. Mclntosh has made arrangements to leave Wellington for Sydney on August 1. He left Grand .Sport in Australia when he returned from a previous visit, and the speedy grey will also be on hand for the spring campaign.

Chile, who went.amiss at Wanganui and then pulled up very lame after his single race at the Wellington Meeting last week, has been taken over by P. T. Hogan and he left for the south this week. . The leading trainer T. R. George will have Diamond, Korero, and Boomerang racing at the Grand National Meeting. It has not yet been : decided if any of the horses shall race at the Christchurch Hunt Club's Meeting. Dungarvan is booked to leave for Sydney on August 1, in company with KinnouU, Rebel Lad, and Silver Ring. He will go over in charge of E. J. Ellis, and he will be prepared for his Australian engagements either by Ellis or by F. McGratE. He was not entered for any of the major spring events. The Acre gelding Matoru,. who was recently purchased from Mr. R. Hannon by Mrs; p. Levin, of Wellington, was brought south to Trentham by J. F. Tutchen and he was handed over

to J. S. Shaw, who will prepare him in future at Riccarton.

At the meeting of the Racing Conference last week .the ■ Egmont Racing Club objected.to the application of the Bay of.lslands Racing Club to have May 12 substituted for November 14 for the meeting to be held af Pukekohe. The president, Mr. .1. S. McLeod, said the Egmont Club could have no justification in objecting, and the application was granted. An impressive gallop at Hastings last Saturday was done by Agog, who, though he had only a light weight up, ran seven furlongs on the trial grass lin Imin 30isec. This Cape HornVigilance five-year-old is due to race at the Hawke's Bay Hunt Meeting next Saturday.

The annual report and balancesheet of the Southland Racing Club reveal that the profit from the three meetings during the season totalled £2064 Is Bd, an increase of £1106 15s 4d over last year's return. On the year's working there was a profit of £1291 4s lOd, as against a profit of £154 17s 2d last year and a loss of £555 6s 3d in \1934. The amount of tax paid to the Government was £4185 14s.

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