TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Issue 49, 26 August 1936, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Croupier will do part of his stud season in the Marlborough district.

The Australian-bred Silver Choir is the*present hope,of Southland for the three-year-old classics.

The Napier Park Racing Club made a profit of £206 last season, from five days' racing. Taxation totalling £2289 was paid.

Cuddle, if she does satisfactorily in her coming engagements, may return for the Auckland Cup on Boxing Day. The Trentham apprentice R. Hawes, who is -attached to J. W. Wood's stable, has secured a riding licence for the season.

The ; two-year-old Kiosk—Limosa gelding, who is to go over to Sydney this week, was recently purchased by A. D. Webster from Messrs. A. Williams arid P.-. Hi Murray, of Patea.

It is possible that after the' A.J.C. Spring Meeting the lUad-rGesture "colt Omarere will be returned to the Dominion for the C.J.C.. Metropolitan Meeting iii November. One of the colt's engagements would be the New Zealand Derby. ' , Most of the horses who, were intended for shipment to Sydney this week are not now going till the Marama's trip next week owing to the big consignment of pedigree stock that will be on board the Wanganella this week.

The" stewards at the recent Moonee Valley Meeting severely reprimanded K. Voitre for having taken The Monarch too sharply across at the turn into -the. straight in the Glenara Handicap.

A juvenile filly by Hunting Song from Paoanui, the dam of Royal Parade, Childstudjr, and- Wahine Nui, has been bought by Mr. R. Shand, Waipukurau, front her breeder, Mr. L. McKenzie.

The extra days granted to the Stratford and Waipa Racing Clubs have been fixed at March 17 and May 15 respectively.

.The six-year-old mare Moonbeam, by Night Raid from Hornbeam, has finished her racing career and she has gone to Mr. John Donald's Westmere Stud, her owner, Mr. W. A. White, having arranged to have her mated with the Son-in-Law horse Beau Pore.

According to a southern report, Vitaphone has rejoined S. Barr's team, and he is to be raced at the Ashburton : and Geraldine \ Meetings next month. Although he has not raced since ho won a double at Wingatui last October, his appearance suggests that he has had a good deal of recent work.

A notable entrant for the Tally Ho Handicap at the Otago Hunt Club's Meeting is Guarantee, who has been off the scene for the greater part of a season. : His last racewas in the New Zealand Cup. ;• He had his recent spell at the Elderslie Stud, where he was also given useful exercise before rejoining the active ranks. Havaspot's recent form1 has been poor and his success at Rosebery last Saturday is unlikely to. have been anticipated. At. the previous weekend at jMoorefield he-was beaten by the re^ cruit Section, a five-year-old son of Rossendale. Once capable of winning a hurdle race at Randwick with 11.0, he carried 9.7 at Moorefield, and last Saturday he had 9.12. j To perpetuate the memory of Mr. L. [K. S. Mackinnon, late chairman of the Victoria Racing Club, the committee !ha# renamed the Melbourne Stakes, on Derby Day, the L. K. S. Mackinnon Stakes. Mr. Mackinnon, during the many years he was'chairman, did a tremendous amount of good work, riot only for the Victoria Racing Club, but for racing generally in Victoria. The October Stakes at the V.R.C. October meeting in futurewill be known as the Melbourne Stakes.