TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 22

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Racing next week at Wellington on Thursday and Saturday, at Cromwell on Friday and Saturday, at Birchwood (Invercargill) on Saturday, and at Ohinemuri (Paeroa) on Saturday and the following Wednesday.

Weights are due oil-M onday for the C.J.C. Great Easter and Great Autumn Handicaps. .

The Auckland maiden Raepata's acceptance for the first day at Trentham is the Silverstream Handicap, not the Tinakori Handicap, as has been generally published.

The value of the stake won by the three-year-old Hunting Song filly Nelumbo at Napier Park on' Thursday was not sufficient to make her ineligible for the Trial,-Plate at Wellington next Thursday. "

Another innovation contemplated by the Onkaparinga' Racing Club (South Australia) is to provide each year a sash for "the winning horse in the Great Eastern Steeplechase. It will have a silver buckle, and this will be suitably inscribed.

Sunbeam, who will accompany Emissary to Trentham, was a promising two-year-old last season, and on resuming recently he showed- plenty of- early speed in the maiden event at the C.J.C. Summer Meeting. He is by Siegfried out of Sunee's full-sister Sungift.

The Iliad mare Yaringa, winner of the Westralian Derby and St. Leger last year, is to run in the King's Cup at Perth next month and then she will be shipped to Melbourne to be prepared for_ important spring events in Victoria. Her form this season has been generally disappointing.

The Manfred horse Manolive', who won the last Perth Cup with 7.12 in record time, will Jeave Perth for Melbourne at the end of the present month in charge of his owner, Mr. J. E. Hay. He is to be entered for the Caulfleld and Melbourne Cups.\ The oldest horse in the Liverpool Grand-National Steeples.this year is Milk Punch, who is 13 years old. Crown Prince and Delaneige, a veteran of the Aintree course, are aged 12. Second Act is the only six-year-old still in the contest. . .

Stable doubles for the Thompson and Railway at Trentham next Thursday are Travenna and Gold Boa (W. E. Hancock), Chief Ranger and Laughing Lass (L. G. Morris), HautiMonde and Karl .(F. W. Davis), Debham and Deficit (H. Telford), and Darecourt and Acceptable CP. Reardon).

Odds of 2135 to 1 were received by two sisters for having selected the winning totalisator double at the Doomben Meeting in Brisbane on February 20 last. Their 5s .'investment brought them £534 2s. They shared the only winning ticket, ancj therefore received all the pool, less the' usual percentage. There were, i 477 tickets issued on the first "leg" of fhe double and 210 were : for the winner,- but of these 209 were exchanged jfor losers in the second "leg." The record dividend paid by the daily double since its inception in Brisbane is £775 for ss, returned in 1935, and it was also collected by a woman. !