TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 121, 18 November 1936, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Brunhilde's next race will probably be in the Great Northern Foal Stakes on Boxing Day. Brabant's half-brother by Whirlwind is beginning to shape much better than when he was first received by H. Telford last month.

Starting times at Waikato on Saturday are:—l2.ls, 1.0, 1.45, 2.30, 3.15, 4.0, 4.45, and 5.30 p.m. Recollection, who secured his first success when winning the highweight at Riccarton last Saturday, was purchased by his present owner, Mr. W. Parsons, from Sir Charles Clifford last month.

Argentic was still suffering from heel trouble when saddled up for the Metropolitan at Riccarton on Saturday, and he is now to have a brief rest before being started on a preparation for the Auckland Cup. Mrs. B. H. Edkins has sold the Iliad— Sunkissed filly Illyria to T. R. George, who will send her to the stud. Very bad joints make her worthless as a racing proposition. The most successful horseman at the New Zealand Cup Meeting was G. H. Humphries, first rider for Sir Charles Clifford and who enjoyed six victories. P. Burgess and W. J. Broughton divided second honours with three wins apiece. Accomplice, the Night Raid two-year-old in H. Telford's stable at Trentham, may not be raced again till the_ Wellington Meeting in January. It is believed that she requires more time, though she is out of a Paper Money H. and A. Ciitts, as Sir Charles Clifford's private trainers, were easily the most successful trainers at the New Zealand Cup Meeting, their tally bsing eight. Two wins each were secured by S. J. Reid, H. B. Lorigan. W. H. Maria, W. E. Hancock, and F. Davis. Youssipof has not yet quite thrown off the shoulder soreness that developed after a school prior to the Wellington Meeting last month, but it is hoped that he will be well enough to resume racing during the holidays. M. Marcel Boussac, owner of the French colt Goya 11, who won this year's Gimcrack Stakes at York, has accepted the invitation to make the principal speech at the Annual Gimcrack Dinner. Wotan was the seventh Melbourne Cup winner bred in New Zealand, his predecessors from the Dominion being Martini Henry, Carbine, Apologue, Sasanof, Nightmarch, and Phar Lap. Of the other 69 winners Comedy King and Backwood were bred in England, and the remainder came from Australian It is rather interesting to note that Pakanui and Triune won at Riccarton when track and atmospheric conditions were considered dead against a winning chance, says a southern writer. Both horses are troubled in the respiratory organs, but it does not stop them from being good horses with the colours up. Their trouble cannot be noticed when racing, but those who know both horses say that they make a noise.