TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Nominations for the Manawatu Baf> ing Club's Winter Meeting are due at 9 o'clock tomorrow evening. Nominations for the Wellington Racing Club's Winter Meeting are due at 5 p.m. on Monday. Jack Homer returned to Melbourne by the Waitaki, which left Bluff yesAdditional acceptors for the Opotiki Meeting are: Hillbilly, in the Novica Stakes, and Queen Lv in the Stewards and Waioeka Handicaps. Gabriel, the half-brother by Mullaboden to Rabbi, is to have his first race at the Dannevirke Hunt Meeting on Saturday week. , It is reported that the two-year-old Nuclei has been sold to an Australian buyer, a condition being that she U safely landed in Australia. An interesting feature of the new season's racing will be the form shown by the first of Beau Pere's crop. It is not often that the yearlings of an untested sife gain highest prices at the annual sales, as the Beau Peres did last January. . Hunting Jay's nomination for the Dannevirke Hunt Meeting is a surprise, as it is understood that the. request to clubs to refuse his nomination has not been withdrawn. The defunct Balboa gained more posthumous honours by siring winners at Wingatui. He sired Signaller, Balmenter, Araboa, and Gay Boa, who won at the meeting. Balboa has sired speed and stamina. hurdlers and 'chasers, and too late forced. himself into recognition as a wasted sire. J. F. Fergus's association with Irish Comet, All Irish, and Huskie gave this rider five winning mounts at the recent Great Northern Meeting. Three other riders, R. K. Smith (Sky Pilot), C. G. Goulsbro" (Erndale). and R. W. McTavish (Versant and Gay Rebel) had two winning rides.