TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 83, 8 April 1938, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

:. 'Acceptances for the tot <^ of the| .■Wairarapa Meeting, are due at 8 o clack on Monday . _ ■.■■■_• x Acceptances ior *aie first day-of the y reildirig. Meeting* are due at 8 p clock .on Monday evening. , .-■• y . X. * Ethiop, *who heads the^weighta for 5 the first day's hurdles at Feilding, has •hot raced? since he failed in. the Grand National Hurdles in August. -7Mittie is due to. make her + reappearance at the Feilding Meeting ,-having been off the scene.since Otaki '■-■ inßeSember., She favours easy tracks. Ito T. Newman, who owned diamond and; is at present .racing Free /Gold" has 'donated trophies.for ■ the -owrier'-of the'wiriner of the Nelson Cup the" successful trainer, and the ycondition S attached, to provide that only winners of £300 are liable to a rehandicap.. • : :•-. 7'it is stated'that, prior to winning at Waimate; 'Beirertve, was to the 'maf-kbt at £100 and. £50 out of her the jumping game is the aged Tractor mare. Amy Johnson, who will-have her first ■i start-over country at Otautau tomorrow. She is well in' at 9.6 if she.can , manage the -fences. ~ .„"■_, „ t i E. J. Jennings will ride Gay Boa at Otautau and Riverton, "and he will alsohave the ride on Six Admiral at Riverton. In the event: ;of Dunmure's not starting, in the Great "Western, Jennings will be.au. Trisox.,, . , For the present season in England King George..bas 15 horses- in training, six of whom are three-year-olds, the being in their first season. The most promising <of the juveniles is Cosmopolitan,/by Sir Como. Captain Charles Moore, the manager of the King's stud and racehorses, says it Is difficult to fault Cosmopolitan. The Perth: Cup? winner "Maikai will notbe a starter in the; Sydney Cup. The Pantheon gelding, who was sent over from "Western Australia to be trained by F. McGrath at Randwick,; has developed a seedy toe in one of his '.'feet, and McGrath states.that there is 'no hope.of his starting in the Sydney Clip" or any other xaces4his-autumn. ■