TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 84, 9 April 1938, Page 22

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

The Easter meetings in the Dominion will open with Wairarapa, Feuding, Auckland, Riverton, Greymouth, and Tuapeka next Saturday. . v -, A Acceptances for Wairarapa and Feilding are due at 8 o'clock1 on Monday evening C T Wilson will have the mount on Willie Win in the Great Autumn Handicap.' • The Newcastle Jockey Club has decided that nominations for future meetings will be free. There will, however, be an acceptance fee. The record weight carried to victory in the Wairarapa Easter Handicap is 10.3, which was the burden that Chortle won with in 1917. The minimum then was 6.7. . , Only on two occasions has the Wairarapa Easter Handicap carried a larger stake than this year. In 1921, when Matatua won, the prize was £600, and" in 1930, when The Swell scored his second success, it was £550. Fitz-James, who was recently second at Hastings and figures in the Wairarapa fields, is a three-year-old chestnut gelding by Master Colossus (Colossus—lnaki) out of the Signalman— Ladylike mare Likely. < Hunting Royal, who is due to make his debut among the juveniles at Wairarapa, is a black colt by Hunting Song out of the Polydamon—Sanguinary mare Sangfroid, hence he is a fullbrother to Coon Song and Black Frost. He is owned by Messrs. W. Wilson and W. C. Whitfield, who raced Gainsfid and other horses.

The maiden Far East, whose name appears among the entries for Wairarapa, has a most unfamiliar breeding. He is given as a three-year-old gelding by Hoturoa (Panmure —Ortygia) ,from a mare by Gay Spark. He is owned by Mr. A. Watson, of Blenheim.

In a military steeplechase meeting on Salisbury Plain at the end of February the horses who finished first, second, and third in the 10th Hussars Subalterns' Race were all disqualified for following the wrong course and the next three of the seven runners were awarded the respective places.