TURF NEWS IN BRIEF
Racing tomorrow at Dunedin, and at Auckland, Dunedin, and Napier on Saturday. , Nominations for future events, including'those of the Wellington Racing Club and the Taranaki Jockey Club, are due on Friday. Acceptances for the final days at Auckland and Napier Park are due at noon tomorrow. Nominations for the Manawatu and Wellington Winter Meetings are due on Friday week. . • Entries for the principal events at the Grand National Meeting will be taken up till Friday fortnight. Clarion Call is entered for the Winter Steeplechase at Auckland on Saturday, and there would be time for him to be entrained for Ellerslie if his connections were satisfied with his performance in today's Wanganui Steeples. The Takanini trainer A. Quinhyan is breaking in a good-looking filly by Bronze Eagle from Green Bonnet, me youngster is a half-sister to that smart galloper Royal Passage. Golden Promise, who recently returned to J. Holt's stables after completing a spell at Bacchus Marsh, is reported from Melbourne to be working along well in preparation for the SPThl' fourth horse in last week's Derby was the American-bred colt Penfox. Le Ksar was at the rear all the way. a most disappointing effort. With three out of four of this season s classics in England won by his progeny. Solario promises to head the list of winning stallions for the first time this year. Last season he was a pool second top to Fairway, their respective winnings being £29,336 and £Four 2'of Solario's two-year-olds last season were winners in England. inf? most successful of them wasi Soilto, who won two races worth £4736. txnioitionnist (winner of the One Thousand wi^s^s^^r race worth £235. . Gainsborough Lass, sister to Orwell, who was the "big noise in the lUdi and 1932 seasons in England, is assuming a rather similar position herself m this year's chronicles. No mention was made of her in the Derby running and if she started in the Oaks she was unable to reach a place. - Phalaris. the sire o£ Mid-day^Suns dam (Bridge of Allan), was four h among the sires of successful dams in England last season. Dams by Phalaris produced 31 winners of 55 races worm £25.638 during the year. The three sires who headed Phalaris ih this table wera Buchan, Hurry On, and Bachelor 3 Double.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 135, 9 June 1937, Page 15
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