TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 60, 8 September 1937, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

The Crooner and Lickem are two Wanganui candidates who will not be racing tomorrow. Nordic Song pulled up slightly lame after a gallop at Takanini on Saturday morning. Sir Abe Bailey's Earthstopper, winner of the 2J miles Prince Edward Handicap, at Manchester last Saturday, had not, as far as exchanges to hand disclose, ever previously won any race. A field of five or six seems the most that the Wanganui Jockey Club can now hope for in Saturday's Guineas contest. . _ . .;

Winners at Wanganui in June who are engaged again tomorrow are Gold Mission, Taitoru, and Croyden. Last spring the winners on the course included Icing, and last autumn Taitoru (twice) and Imposture. . i Twelve months ago Wotan earned his trip to Victoria, where he burst into sudden fame with a record-timte victory in the Melbourne Cup, by scoring in the hack distance race ■at Wanganui in the spring. There are no Melbourne Cup aspirants in this year's hack races at Wanganui, but several m the fields are likely to win good races later on in the Dominion. . . -, ' A' commissioner was in Southland last week for the purpose of buying thoroughbred horses to recruit the ranks of the polo ponies in Canterbury and among his purchases were four of Mr. W. E. Hazlett's horses, comprising the five-year-old bay geld ing Stuffy (Woodehd—Parysia), a three-year-old mare by Gustavo from Parysia; the four-year-old mare Night Lou (Night Raid—Louise), and a mare by Anomaly from Lilydale. All realised satisfactory prices. The Ngatarawa trainer J. H. Jefford usually has his horses well forward ■ early in the season, and his team for this week's Wanganui Meeting, comprising Ben Braggie, Hunting Cat, Black Fox, and Amoroso, should not return home empty-handed. Ben Braggie, at his last meeting, won easily under 10.0 (winter minimum), so he is lucky to be allowed to start off tomorrow's sprint with the lowest permissible mark of 9,0.