TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 82, 7 April 1938, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Acceptances for the Wairarapa Racing Club's and the Feilding. Jockey Club's Easter Meetings close on Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Acceptances for the minor events at r the C.J.C. .Easter Meeting close on £ Wednesday next at 5 p.m. •-. Final pay- a ments for the Champagne Stakes, c Great Easter Handicap, :the Gerat 4 Autumn Handicap, and; the Challenge s Stakes are due at.the,same hour. J. W. Jennings has been engaged n to ride Waitaka in the Rivertoa Cup. r The Surgeon, who has been one of £ A. E. Didham's team' for a few weeks, w has been returned to J. Ross's care at Oamaru. ... r

Kelly the Crow will be ridden in his engagements at Otautau and Riverton by the Wingatui horseman W. Shand, who has been located' in Southland for a time.

The four-year-old gelding by Romney from Thurnley, who is to make his debut in the Trial Plate at Whangarei,. has had the name Painter claimed for him; ,

In his three starts over hurdles My Money has shaped very promisingly for a beginner, and it will not require much improvement for him to be placed in the near future. He is engaged in the Northland Hurdles at Whangarei, as is also his stablemate, Gay Broney.

I Without earning a stake, Tybalt has been racing solidly in recent starts I and a little further improvement should see him taking part in the decision of the Mclnnes Memorial Handicap at Whangarei. A hardy gelding, Tybalt has taken no harm from his; Tauranga trip and is reported to be working in good style.

After doing pace work at Invercargill last week Milford was very lame with a recurrence of the trouble which put him out of action earlier in the season. It has been decided not to persevere with him further, and he will be sent out for a good spell. For some time a well-known Southlander has been contemplating a' visit to Australia with a string of gallopers the majority of them being maiden performers, states the "Timaru Herald." An Invercargill trainer will be in charge, and the jockey W. Jenkins is named as likely to return to Melbourne to do the riding. The owner referred to is well known in light harness circles.