TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 105, 30 October 1936, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Cup candidates en* gaged at Motukarara tomorrow are Ar« gentic, Davolo, Polydora, The Surgeon, and Tout le Monde. Pelmet, apparently recovered from the injury she suffered at the North. Canterbury Meeting, is to have her first trial over a middle-distance at the Banks Peninsula Meeting tomorrow. The cabled report of the scratching, among others, of Silver Ring for the Melbourne Cup evidently was meant to refer to Silver Reign, who had 7.3. Oriwai, a newcomer among the maidens at Bulls tomorrow, is a four-year-old full-sister to'the. steeplechaser Petrarch, and she is being raced on lease from her breeder by the Awapuni trainer J. Manuel and .Mr. L. Patterson, of Woodville. The Iliad—Sunkissed filly Illyria, who carries the same colours as Ac? complice, was very sore after ' her initial race in the Wellesley Stakes at the Wellington Meeting last week, and it is possible that she will not be further persevered with. ."..'■ : Brigadore went down south from Trentham in charge of Davolo's trainer C. Davey, who will in future have care of him. Present intentions are to develop him into a steeplechaser for next winter. * Sir Charles Clifford has.disposed Of his big three-year-old colt Recollection, by Polazel from Retrospect, to Mr. W. Parsons, who has given him to S. Barr to train. . . Shy lightened up with his two races at the Wellington Meeting last week, and he was also slightly injured during the. trouble prior to the start on the second day. His production in the New Zealand Gup next week depends on the progress he makes during tha next few days. : Ben Braggie's five furlongs in just over one minute at Trentham yesterday morning was one of the best gallops done on the track for the last twelve months. The only trial comparable with it was Cuddle's final sprint before she went to the Auckland Cup Meeting. When this was mentioned to J. H. Jefferd he simply replied: "But my horse is better than .anything you have.had here." \ : According to the London . "Sporting iLife," if the St. Leger had been:' decided 24 hours, later Boswell would not have/ been -able' to run. Mr. W. Woodward's colt returned to Newmarket heavily bandaged on the near hind leg and ,it was stated he was suffering from heel-bug.. It was also revealed that two of Mahmoud's infected heel» opened after the Doncaster race.