TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Hanlon is back in the active ranks at Wingatui. The Wise Counsellor gelding was a consistent performer last season, winning five times and being in minor places on eight other occasions. , ~ A E. Didham recently expressed the opinion that he was doubtful whether Valarth, who met with an injury at the Wellington Winter Meeting, would ever race again. _ Riding engagements announced lor the Otago Hunt Meeting tomorrow are:—R. Humphries, Milford and Doubleack; G. Barclay, Wynwood and Trebleack; C. Humphries, Paladino; 1. Boyle, El Caballo; V. Langford, Corban. Waitoru is back in R. E. McLellan s stable at Invercargill and he is reported to be in good order. The Balboa gelding raced best on soft tracks, but it is unlikely that he will be hurried meantime. , Pakanui, as a result of his moods, has been a difficult horse to follow ot late, but he is showing plenty of dash in his track work at Hastings and has only to do it right to play a part at the New Plymouth Hunt Meeting next week. Brunhild ' was somewhat of a disappointment last season, but it is anticipated that she will make the grade this season without any cultvHagen, a three-year-old colt by Siegfried from Hathor, dam of Hest and Shu, is considered to be a colt likely to be a serious contender in this year s Derbies and St. Legers. Coil, a half-brother by Tractor to Maunga, is a recruit to the jumping ranks at Hastings. Bred as he is he should make good in the role. % Night Attack, who figures in the Wanganui Guineas field, is a halfbrother by Night Raid to the brilliant Australian performer Gold Koa. He was not seriously tried last season. The executive of the Racing Conference has given a ruling that the wing of a jump is part of the fence, and that the decision of the judicial committee of the South Canterbury Hunt in dismissing a protest against Tomcat being awarded third place in the Teschemaker Cup was correct. The objection, which was lodged by the rider of Bonny Buff, rested on the ground that Tomcat had not jumped the hencoop, but had gone over a wing which had been knocked down by : another horse. The reason for dismissing th© protest was that Tomcat had kept is* jside the flags.