TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Issue 66, 15 September 1936, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

With Deficit, Golden Chance, and Mala, Lackham received another excellent advertisement as a sire last Saturday. Although Mala ran Gold Rod to half a length in the Chelmsford Stakes on Saturday, the only time Gold Rod was really galloping was when he was opening a big break on the home turn.

Limorid Lad, top price yearling at the Trentham sales last year, won at his third start this season when he scored in the Port Adelaide Guineas on Saturday. He still requires to win the S.A. Derby before South Australians will be satisfied he is anything above average. The Woodville trainer F. W. Davis went straight on from Wanganui to Avondale with his team after last week's racing. Fillies who win the Debutant Stakes at Wanganui rarely achieve much success afterwards, and Moquette, who won the race last year, was again disappointing at last week's meeting. The Thracian sire The Greek, recently imported by Mr. A. F. Lawrie from Australia, already has his limited book for his first season practically full.

Cockpit, who for the past two.seasons has been at Waikouaiti, has been transferred to Yaldhurst, where he will be in M. B. Edwards's charge. Free Gold, a three-year-old halfbrother by General Latour to Dollar Bill, went two promising races at Wanganui and he should be a useful member of T. R. George's team during the present season.-

Ticket, the half-sister by Paper Money to Shy, was most flighty of the youngsters at the barrier in the parade and Debutant Stakes at Wanganui last week, but once the tapes were released she revealed quite a useful turn of speed. She is the same long, lean type as her half-brother, but may be equally as fast later on in her career.-

Boomerang's failures at Wanganui may not mean that he will not get a middle distance. He ran two. sound races each day without any of the luck, particularly on the second day, when he was hemmed in on the fence nearly all the way to the straight, with Delrain unsteady in keeping position in front of him and Spiral on the outside of him; He became just a little big In condition too after the Grand National Meeting. The Kilbroney gelding Gay Broney, who has been off the scene for several months, has made a reappearance at Ellerslie. He looks bright and healthy to undergo another preparation. His owner, J. D. Kemp, has also recommissioned the five-year-old mare Jolly Dance, who was treated to a spejl a few months back after contracting a cold.