TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1937, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Otaki nominations are due on Mona Au 6ckland Cup weights are not due till Wednesday week. . •. . • Peerless is enjoying a two weeks letup. If she does well she may go north for the Great Northern' Foal Stakes. Brown Lap has been! rehandicapped 31b for the Hautapu Hack Handicap at the Waikato Racing Club's Meeting, making his weight 8.10. _ . . Defaultei has been set aside for the time being, as he is growing, and he will not be required to race again till the autumn. _ The Wellington and New Zealand Cup Meetings gave an accurate measure ox Siegmund's ability, but in easier compr.ny he should soon win that race that is needed to take him out of hacks. Merry Ruler, winner of the Wanganui debutant Stakes six years ago, his 0..1y success, is due to return to racing in • the. Hokia ..Haqk, Handicap at Levin tomorrow. An-older half-brother Ito Bay Duke; and ■ Ned Cuttle, he has recently • been bought, by Mr.. R. W. Orton, of-Wanganui.- - : ..-■ ■ The Gainscourr gelding Windward was sold atthe close of the recent New Zealand. Cup Meeting .to a Hokitika owner., He has been:left in the meantime at Riccarton with A. McMillan, who will race him in, the highweight evem at AshburtQn. next.week; He_ s in good order, and he may soon pay his. \/py 'or his new owner. • Spearfelt,' by Spearhead' who.; now stand, out as the most notable sue to keep. up. the name of the Carbine line in Australia, was credited with he parentage of a brace of important winhers recently. Sis son Spear Chief won the Queensland Derby,, and his four-year-old daughter Perfect Lady scored in the• Queensland .Cup -.two miles.-in. the-fast time of 3mm 21£ sec. The successful Australian jockey, R. Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. .Wilson, is at present enjoying a holiday in New Zealand, and will be present at the Waikato Racing Club's Spring Meeting at Te Rapa tomorrow. Wilson steered Prairie Moon to victory in the Oaks at the Victoria Racing Club's Spring. Meeting at Flemington.