TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Entries for the Wanganui Meeting, despite the clash with Auckland, number 301, compared with 205 last year. An interesting nominee ~ for the steeplechase events at Wanganui is the South Islander Streamline, a. -good hurdler last season : but. .troubled by unsoundness. : '.-'■ ..■:*,,■ ' • Platter, who figures in the Wanganui steeplechase.events, will do future | racing in the interests of the Woodville trainer F. W. Davis, who recently bought, him after he/had failed m other ownerships. ■ ■ ■ . .'• ' Grateful is reported from Takanmi to be working along well, and he is to be started in the sprint, at Te Rapa on Saturday. However,' it is expected that he will need a race or two to tune him up to top pitch. •■- ■ , After, the., Hawke's, .Bay Meeting Haut Monde was. .seat out to his owner's Okawa station for,a spell till after the Winter. , . Hunting Tartan, a four-year-old son Of that good Kilbroney,mare Piuthair, who has been schooling well for a novice at Woodville,. will Iprdbably make his debut-as a hurdler at Foxton. He is now one-of B. McKays team. ' ■- Trench Fight, after having had a spell, has again taken- his place in the team of H. and A. Cutts at Riccarton. He looks well, and he will make an early start on strong tasks, with a view to competing in the Winter Cup and other events at the Grand National Meeting in August.' ■En Tour, whose name appeared among the entrants for the Green Lane Steeplechase at the Auckland Racing Club's Winter Meeting, is ineligible owing to his victory in the Pakurahga Hunt Cup last August. Trentham stables have entered only eight horses for the Wanganui Meeting. T. R. George has Bonnie Rollox, Boomerang, Darecourt, Alunga, Galteemore, and Marcus Cicero, W. J. Wood has Myriam,, and T. Yates has Rona Bay.' The Hastings trainer W. H. Corlett, whose temporary headquarters are at present at Woodville, has recently. I added to his team Le -Toquet, Bun Fight, and Blue Tiger. The last-named, 1 who is. a good jumper, is to bp put to steeplecha'sfng. . .. . The doctor's repor.t on L. J. Ellis in Wellington last week was entirely favourable, and he is ready to resume riding. However, Ellis has decided to spend a short .holiday: with .his parents in Invercar'gill prior to starting track work again at-Riccarton.and his first meeting will be Dunedin next month. The most forward of the rising two-year-olds in" training-at Woodville is said to be the Colossus—Tiffmint filly, who is owned by F. Davis. The filly, who is related to Gay Talkie,', re-; cently sold to India, and also to the recent northern-winner Bonny Gay, is "a good- mover and gives • the appearance of being ari early two-year-old. .-..■■ The rising two-year-old Homily, by Posterity from Homage, and the Ldmond—Jewel of Asia colt are now regular workers on the track at Woodville, and both show themselves to be well-mannered youngsters. Should they show sufficient early promise they will be included in F. W. Davis's team for Australia when he leaves with Courtcraft, Francis Drake, and perhaps one or two others. . An unusual procedure settled a threat of broadcasting at a recent meeting at Newcastle. Arrangements were made for a Scottish pipe band to play.below the broadcaster, and there were other suggestions. Whether the threat, of the pipes or the other suggestions were responsible, the broadcaster decided to call it a.day before racing started.