TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Ben Braggie and Alma are the Stewards' Handicap favourites, : Though he has dropped out of the Cup, Ardchoille is accepted for two other races at Riccarton on Saturday. Though Miracle has met the final payment for the New Zealand Cup, he may be found starting in the Linwood Handicap on Saturday in preference. The Bigot will probably be a good favourite for the Spring Plate, but Sovereign Lady should test him and a three-year-old is always a prospect in this event.

Though he was riot nominated for the Welcome Stakes in June, Surmount is engaged in the two-year-old handicaps on the. three concluding days of the Cup Meeting. Sunny Blonde is to be tried, over longer distances at Riccarton, as the highweight event in which she will probably start on Monday is a ninefurlong race. Most of her half-relatives could stay a middle-distance well. A good three-year-old will usually win the Riccarton Handicap, nine furlongs, on New Zealand Cup Day. Admiral Drake, Cylinder, King Colossus, Nightly, Sporting Blood, and Wild Chase have won six of the last eight contests as three-year-olds. Smoke Screen should therefore be tough to bowl on Saturday.

An addition to W. J. Woods's team at Trentham is The Squanderer, a fouryeaivold chestnut filly by Rabbi from Emiform, a mare by Ringform (son of Boniform) from the Elysian mare Emigre. The Squanderer had three outings as a two-year-old and has not raced since. She carries the same colours as Twilight Song, also in Woods's stable, those of Mr. A. V. Weston, of Blenheim. -