TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1938, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Acceptances for the final day of the Wellington Meeting close at noon tomorrow. ■ ' Willie Win, who ran second in last year's Melbourne Clip, will probably sail^or Melbourne again on August 3. A sale of yearlings and other horses is to be held at the Trentham Sales Stables commencing at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Prosy Boy, who has been off the scene for nearly two years, has been accorded an entry in the Hawke's Bay Hunt Cup, to be run on Saturday week. Times have rarely been slower than they were at Trentham on Tuesday. The open sprinters took lmin 21fsec for six furlongs, and the open milers required lmin 54sec! Erination, winner of the Wellington Steeplechase on Tuesday, was one of three horses to make the trip down from Rotoriia by float. The long journey evidently did not affect him, otherwise than to make him refuse to school. The only race at Trentham on Tuesday on which there was a smaller pool invested than last year was the opening event, the Mariri Hack and Hunters' Steeples. The fact that there were only two place dividends probably accounted for this. . _ The oldest horse in the field for the Winter Hurdles on Saturday will be John Charles, who-is ten years of age. Beau Gallante, Black Man, and Monastic . are. riinesyear-olds, and Erination, C,°» urL? rar J d ' and Chaste are eight-year-olds. The juniors are Charade, Aurora's Love, and Spender, all five-year-olds. , The.Winter Hurdles is not a race in which time counts for much, as the time depends- on the state of the going, which is liable to account for as much as a minute in the figures. However, the best time that has been done in the race is the 4min 142 sec that was registered by Faddon whin scoring his first success in 1932 The ? eXi fc o ?- a? Paddon won in 4min 45isec. sSccllding UCUllent took 4min 59« ec in In recent years the heaviest weight given a three-year-old in the S R°nH rn w a CUp^S + 7st 10lb' w^h Gold Rod was asked to carry in his year £5 t£ ls7 e« ar>s Melbourne Cup^Nuffield at" Or 7 ibRegaTVa-re W haSdica?ped yU£*r■&& Tor^l tha Gs Sv^dSce^ 05^ With W