TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 22

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

•-Earing next- week at Te Aroha on Monday, Napier Park on Thursday and■■; Saturday,' -and Rangitikei, Franklin, and Banks Peninsula, on Saturday. • Handicaps ■ for-/the first- day of the "Wellington Meeting are. due to appear on Monday. ■:, ... _ , . The Wairarapa Racing Club has at last decided to, open its. meeting with the maiden event.-. The Maiden Plate on the first day at .Easter is the first ©vent. *"-■ ■ ' "■■■ The V R.C. Autumn Meeting, which was opened, at Flemington today, will be continued' on :Tuesday, and Thursday, and concluded . next Saturday, when .the' Australian Cup, the only 21-mile handicap in the Common-wealth,-will be decided. The Westport Jockey Club is meeting owners attending the: fixture on March 20 and. 22 next by contributing £1 a horse'towards the cost of transport, whether: /by -float or ..ship. : At -most-recent advice, .the' leading 'rider under National- Hunt Rules in England- this ..season .was'S. Magee, whose mount in the Grand National Steeplechase will probably be MisdeImeanour 11. E. Williams, probable rider of Royal Mail, was second on the The three-year-old gelding by Nightmarch from Peho, who is to make his debut at Motukarara next week, has been registered as Clubman, and his stablemate, the filly from Weeplete, will race as La Meri. Bronze Lady is the name claimed for the Bronze Eagle—Lady Robinson filly in K. Heaton's charge at Ellerslie. Bronze Lady is furnishing nicely and in her few sprinting tasks she has displayed, dash. , .. , Grateful, formerly trained m Taranaki, and who won the New Plymouth Handicap on that course in December, has entered F. J. Smith's stable at Takanini. ■' . . Wotan and Le Grand, in charge of their trainer, J. Fryer, sailed from Auckland on Wednesday by the Awatea for Sydney. Wotan's special mission on the trip will be the Sydney Cup. ' The fourryear-old Round Up and the yearling colt by Beau Pere from The Begum have been purchased from Mr. M. J: Moodabe by Mr. T. Impey and will in future be'trained at Takanini by F. Smith. The Beau Pere colt is a half-brother to Mazir and Stretto. Faculties, the comparative .novice who won the Winton Steeplechase last week and for whom a fine career as a jumper has been predicted, is a five-year-old gelding by Panmure from Kyleboa, by Balboa from Lady Kyle, the last-mentioned mare being a halfsister to Set Sail, a good performer and the dam of Sailing Lady. A contract at £2467 for the erection of a new stand at the Paeroa racecourse has been let by the committee of the Ohinemuri Jockey Club. The new stand will accommodate about 700 people. Allowing for the provision of seating, drainage, and other incidental items, the total cost is expected to be about £3000. New Zealand-bred horses noted in the entries for this year's- King's Cup, to be decided at Perth on April 3, are The Riff (Chief Ruler—Rosellate), Childstudy (Psychology—Paoanui), Yaringa (Iliad —Refinement), Dainty Verse (Iliad—lsa), and First Consul (Chief Ruler—Lady Fym). All except The Riff, who is from Adelaide, are owned in Perth.

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