TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 69, 18 September 1937, Page 22

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Nominations for the Otakk Maori Racing Club's Spring Meeting are due at 8 o'clock on Monday evening. Racing fixtures set down for next week, besides the concluding day at Avondale on Monday, are the Geral-. dine Meeting, on Thursday and Saturday, and the Marton Meeting, on Saturday. ' The next fortnight in Australia, preceding the opening of the A.J.C. Spring Meeting, will be a quiet period, there being only minor fixtures to engage the attention of racegoers. Mon Ace, by The Ace from Mon Mint, and who was previously trained in Hawke's Bay, is now quartered at Awapuni. ~ _, , T The southern sportsman Mr. E. h. Didham has purchaser a two-year-old full-brother to Alma, by Paper Money from Ravenna. The youngster was bred by Mr. L. C. Hazlett, and the price is reported to be about £500. It is reported from Australia that Wotan has been supported for the Melbourne Cup, and has been coupled with Talking for the Caulfleld Cup. Merry Ruler, by Chief Ruler from Merry Twinkle, has joined W. Pines team at Awapuni. This gelding, who won as a two-year-old, has been oil the scene for some time. L. J. Ellis gained his first success in the Wangamii Guineas when he won on Royal Chief at the past fixture. _ The Philamor—Gay Round filly in A. E. Cox's charge at To Aroha is showing material improvement in regard to conformation and cannot now be deemed as on the small side, says a northern writer. Her work so far has been of a light nature, so she may not be at her best racing form until thThe U?atest additions to F. W. Ellis's team at Riccarton are Coxcomb and Pesetas, owned by Mr. J. L. Hazlett, of Oreti. , Coxcomb, by Philamor— Egotism, is stated to have developed into a particularly fine type of four-year-old, and he has clearly been well cared for during the winter. Pesetas, a four-year-old gelding by Paper Money from Kilris, and bred by Mr. W. Baxter, of Christchurch, has started only once and is a likely-looking galloper.