TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 57, 4 September 1937, Page 22

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

I Acceptances for the first day of the i Wanganui Meeting are due at 9 o'clock on Monday evening. Weights for the New Zealand Cup 1 are due to be released on Friday, September 24. > The Ohinemuri Jockey Club hopes ito wipe out. the balance of the TauImarunui Racing Club's deficit this year, when it will take over the perimits itself. .

i B. H. Morris will ride Icing in the Wanganui Guineas and Minga in the Debutant Stakes at Wanganui. N, Cavaney will be on Relative in her engagements, and F. Latham is to have the mounts on Scarf Dance, Icing, Entail, and Imposture on the first day: The death at the age of 69 occurred in England recently of Mr. T. F. Dawkins, senior handicapper under Jockey Club Rules from 1912 to 1931.

The death of Chief Ruler was a serious loss to New Zealand. In the ten years embracing the period from 1927----28 season to 1936-37, his progeny racing in New Zealand and Australia won £156,918, made up as follows:—New Zealand, £111,510; Australia, £45,408. During Mrs. J. Campbell's absence in Australia, the remainder of her team at Riccarton will be in charge lof W. Hobbs, who has not been proIfesSionally associated with racing for some years. Mr. C. Hassell has been appointed handicapper to the South Canterbury Jockey Club, Vincent Jockey Club, and Ashburton County Racing Club.

Mr. S. Green, the Victorian racehorse owner and breeder, returned from a trip to England a fortnight ago. Whilst abroad he purchased the French three-year-old Actor, who is already in Melbourne. Mr. W. T. Hazlett will be sending two more horses across to Australia by the Waitaki on Monday. They are a four-year-old unnamed mare by Night Raid from the Paper MoneyIllume mare Flicker, and a two-year-old filly by Colonel Cygnus from the Paper Money—Simper mare Lucky Light. The past season was the best in the [history of the Riverton Racing Club, the totalisator turnover of £66,318 and the credit balance of £3322 10s both i being record amounts. The first foal of the brilliant Australian mare Waltzing Lily, a colt by Portoflno, has greatly pleased his breeder, Mr. E. A. Underwood. The colt will be offered for sale in March.