TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 120, 17 November 1937, Page 17

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Betting will be under the single-pool system at Levin on Saturday. ■ .. . At Waikato and Southland the win-and-place system of betting will for the Otaki Maori Racing Club's Meeting, to be held on December 4, close on Monday evening. King's Lancer, who is engaged at Levin on Saturday, is reported to be a likely sort of recruit to the hurdling Trackman, who has accompanied Shy to Waikato, has done well since the Wellington Meeting, and he is likely to play a part in the hurdles on Saturday with 9.8. Great Hope's two forward efforts at Trentham recently at his first outings this season make him appear Golden Chest's most likely opponent in the hack sprint at Levin on' Saturday. Happy Heels has made a.qUick recovery from the cuts he received in his recent escapade at Trentham, and he looked particularly well on the tracks yesterday morning. However, the quality of the hack sprint at Levin may be a little high yet lor him. Mohican, winner of three , races in Melbourne during the spring carnival, has returned to Sydney, for a brief spell. He will probably be. taken back, to Melbourne in the autumn for I the Newmarket Handicap and other important sprint races. Among the lots passed in at the recent spring sale of racehorses in Melbourne was the seven-year-old Amain mare Amalia, winner of the Australian Cup last year. The highest bid secured for the mare was 200 guineas. - i The attendance on New Zealand Cup 'day was estimated to excied 14,000, the highest for fourteen years, and Ihnt on Derby Day showed an increase of between 4000 and 5000. It. is likely that the final figures will show an increased attendance over the four days racing of close on 10,000. On his return from Australia W. Grindlay brought b&k with'him a four-year-old mare Dainty Sue for Mr. C Boyle, of Palmerston North. Dainty Sue is by Drake from Masked Battery, by Comedy King from the New Zealand-bred Artillerie, by Royal Artillery from the Stepniak mare Nantes. Two prominent members of this family, are Nightmarch arid Silver Ring. A handsome canteen of cutlery of 64 pieces will go to the winner of the Bolton Handicap on the first day of the Woodville Meeting next month, .