TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

S J Reid leaves for Hastings next week, and he will take over his position as private trainer to Mr. i ■ Ormond on March 29.

Acceptances for the final day of the Wellington Meeting are due at noon tomorrow.

Handicaps for the Wairarapa and Feilding Easter Meetings are due to make their appearance on Monday. Acceptances for first-day events at the Pahiatua Meeting, to be held on .Friday and Saturday of next week, are due at 9 .o'clock on Monday evening. The jockey A. G. Murray is leaving for Suva next month to ride and tram for Mr. A. H. Witherow. Courtcraft and Francis Drake may not be clashing in the classics next season, as Courtcraft will probably be going over to Australia for the big money. .

Tareha is expected to show himself a much-improved horse during the racing at Easter. He may accompany Journet to Ellerslie for the Auckland Racing Club's June carnival. |

Arctic King has been nominated for Feilding, but,. if he makes a satisfactory showing at Trentham this week he will be going south to Kiccarton at Easter for the Great Autumn Handicap. O. Cox has nominated Lowenberg and Friesland freely at Riccarton, Feilding, and Tauherenikau for Easter, and their destination will probably depend on how they race this week. They may even be separated, as they were at the New Year. The Canterbury Jockey Club has decided to discard the number cloths formerly in use and issue in their place a style similar to those in use at Trentham. In future the saddle cloths will be of black material with white numTaxation paid by the Franklin Racing Club from the Annual Meeting at Fukekohe last Saturday amounted to £3587 12s. Totalisator tax accounted for £1675 9s 4d, dividend duty for £1832 Is, stakes tax for £15, and amusement tax for £65 Is Bd. According to a northern report, Mrs. H Dent, of Ngatea. has lost the Iliad gelding Cyllaros. The horse was under lease to a New Plymouth sportsman, and broke a leg while being schooled. Peter Beckford's absence from the Wellington Meeting is due to his haying run a nail into his foot. On this account also, Mr. G. D. Beatson decided not to accept for Soho, who with a first and a second at Napier Park showed himself to be better than ever before. In view of his surprise success on the flat at Napier Park last Saturday Curie should be in great fettle for hurdling when the tracks become easier. He was easily the best-performed runner in the Omahu Highweight Handicap, but he was generally thought to be too backward in condition to have much chance of success. Class horses often thus surprise in highweight events. I