TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 22

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Acceptances for the first day of- the Wanganui Spring Meeting close on Monday week. F. W. Davis intends taking Francis Drake, Coronation, Silver Stick, and Kobi north for the Avondale Spring Meeting. Cullus, who has had a spell for two seasons, is back in work in Hawke's Bay. He appears to have lost none of his brilliance in the interim. A. McGregor, who has made Rotorua his headquarters for some years, intends shifting shortly with his team to Matamata, where he has acquired a property. Owing to suffering early set-backs, the two-year-olds in R. S. Bagby's stable are not as forward as the majority at Ellerslie. Lately, however, they have been getting through steady pace work and will be ready for serious tasks when the tracks become firmer. High Caste, the half-brother by Bulandshar, to Stretto, is growing into a massive colt and is easily the biggest of the Ellerslie juveniles. Without being hurried, the two-year-old Chelandry, by Vaals from Ornamental, is making pleasing progress at Ellerslie. Possessing plenty of quality, she is a good, even mover. The biggest yearling sales in America are those conducted by the FasigTipton Company at Saratoga. The head of the business, Mr. E. J. Tranter, died recently in New York. His association with the firm commenced in 1904. After racing at the Pakuranga Meeting, Spearford went on to Avondale to continue his preparation for that meeting next month. The half-brother to the Railway Handicap winner, Awarere, is an improving hack whose turn does not look far off. Formerly trained at Te Rapa, Cometarian is now a member of J. M. Buchanan's team at Ellerslie. The Surveyor—Lady Comet gelding, who is to be tried as a jumper, has a lot to recommend him on the score of conformation and breeding. The stallions II Duce and Sunny Boy have been recommended by the Hawke's Bay Remounts Committee as sires under the remount subsidy scheme. II Duce is owned by Mi\ J. S. McLeod and is a six-year-old son of Chief Ruler from Fair Rosamond, who also produced Talisker and Kick Ofr. Through a transposition of words, Mr. G. D. Beatson, president of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club, was credited in the "Post" last evening with the statement that jockeys were made, not born. The phrase should have read '"jockeys were born* not made."