TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 138, 8 December 1936, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Master Brierly's Auckland Cup rider will be B. H. Morris. . , Argentic is now definitely to contest the Auckland Cup, but his stablemate Screamer will go to Awapuni. It is probable that the Riccarton trainer F. Di Jones will make the.trip to Ellerslie with Custos, Cerne Abbas, and the two-year-old Royal Chief. The hurdle horseman B. Sullivan returned north from- Wellington. yesterday, and he hopes to resume riding at Waipa. His injured knee is almost completely better.- He may later go to the Taranaki holiday circuit. . Silk Sox will resume racing at Taranaki meetings during the holidays, and he will stick to the flat for the immediate future.,- \ , .V Card Sharper, who could: not be raced at Levin through being cast in his box, has made a quick recovery and is working again regularly at New Plymouth. The New Plymouth horsemen L. Clifford and R. W. Savage will be at the Woodville Meeting this week. Savage's mounts will .include Jubilee Song and Gran vale. . Riders for the Waipa Meeting on Saturday include L. Dulieu, Little Artist, King's Archer, and Trouvaille; N. Vaughan, Gascyne; F. Fergus, Lucidus; H. Goldfinch, King Neptune, Round Up, and Master Brierly. F. Holmes has left Studley Royal in the Great Northern Derby, and as the gelding is being worked the reverse way it looks as if the northern trip was in view.. . : . ' People's Idol, who figures among the maiden acceptors at Woodville, is a three-year-old bay colt by Laughing Prince from that useful Acre—Cora Ora mare Acora, a : half-sister to Priscilla Verne and Ethiop, and, like all recent members of thjs line, he will race in the colours of his breeder, Mr. A. T. Gatrell, of Marton. All Happiness, a newcomer among the Woodville maiden candidates, is a member of the same Waikato family as Sansfoy, who raced well at this end of the North Island last season when trained at Trentham. All Happiness is a three-year-old bay filly by Gay Shield from the Quin Abbey—-Millie mare AwarekaJ a full; Sister to Sansfoy's dam (Millie Abbey), and she is owned by Mr. T. G. Taylor, of Hunterville. . . ■.■;■•