TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Wairarapa weights are due on Fri-Win-and-place betting at Whangarei this week . ■ -• ; Steer Clear, novice winner at Waimate on Saturday, is a three-year-old daughter of Lord Warden who is likely to go on. to better things. The trotting stipendiary, Mr. J. S; Shaw, acted as steward of the Waimate Racing Club's Meeting last Saturday. ' . ■'...■■■ _ Wild Chase is reported from Riccarton to be working better than at any previous time this season on the tracks'. He ran seven furlongs in lmin 29sec on the outside of the course proper on Saturday, j Since returning to Ellerslie Stretto , has been allotted only light tasks. She |looks well after her racing,. and, although the handicaps have yet to make their appearance, she is a popular fancy fpr the Auckland Easter Handicap, ■ Mulatto, a three-year-old filly by Nigger Minstrel from Silver Grey, an Australian mare by Grey Monk, left Riccarton 'last week for the Stonyhurst Stud, where she will have a spell. It is unlikely that she will be trained again owing to leg troubles. When Aiwai returned to the winners list at Hastings last Saturday she was enjoying her first success for over twelve months. The Chief Ruler filly, carried some solid weights as a juvenile last season, winning'at Wanganui in January twelve months ago under 9.9 and being second under 9.2 at Te Axoha. Very often fillies who carry such weights as juveniles fail for, some time afterwards to- strike form, but when they do they are worth following. ,