TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Willie Win's soreness at Wellington was apparently not serious, as he is an acceptor for Banks Peninsula on Saturday. %

Paper Slipper is now well treated in the handicaps, but on form and weighting at the Grand National Meeting in August Dictate is very lucky to be receiving 61b from him at Motukarara on Saturday. The Woodville District Jockey Club has been granted a change of dates from February 18 and 12 to Friday and Saturday, February 17 and 18, for its Autumn Meeting.

New Zealand Cup*horses who figure in the J. F. Buchanan Memorial Handicap at Banks Peninsula on Saturday are Willie Win, Argentic, Padishah, Malagigi, Ponty, Mungatoon, Happy Night. Rousseau, and CapeGabo.

Padishah has been accorded a great chance of paying preliminary expenses on his southern trip with 8.6 in the Buchanan Memorial Handicap at Motukarara on Saturday. He has the same weight as Malagigi, and only 21b more than Last Refrain.

The totalisator investments for the Waikato Hunt Club's Annual Meeting at Cambridge on Monday were £36,228. This was a record for the club. Last year the turnover was £32,503. Beaupartir has been beaten into second place in the three races he has had to date, but they have been narrow defeats and he is probably the most likely maiden at present racing. The Spring Plate at Riccarton will be his next' engagement.

Galteemore found the grade in his only start at the Wellington Meeting last' week too high for him, but he should be more at home in the J. F. McKelvie Memorial Handicap at Bulls on Saturday, where Brazen King, Dorado, and Cricket look his most formidable opposition. Trasos did not make the trip to Trentham, where his stable relied, on Beaupartir in the novice events, but he has accepted for Bulls on Saturday, and after his promising showing at Otaki early in the month he is sure to come in for plenty of attention.

The Trentham trainer T. R. George will take a team of five horses to Bulls on Saturday and they should not return empty-handed. Galteemore and Matoru are both well, and Drachma and Hinerawe are improvers. Free Gold, the other member, is not at present a.very hopeful proposition at six furlongs. Colincamps failed to show up from a wide marble in his only start at the Wellington Meeting, but that was his first outing for several months, and his first time out of the money* As he galloped very well before the meeting he should be a prospect in the hack sprint at Bulls on Saturday. No horse looked better in the parade for the Ruahine Handicap at Trentham on Monday than Waka, the five-year-old half-brother by Tractor to Luna Lux. He was having his first racing at the meeting since he had two runs on the same course the winter before last, and he is one well worth keeping in mind. Play On is due to make his first appearance this season in the McKelvie Memorial Handicap at Bulls on Saturday. For a horse who has won only one event in his career to date, he seems most unfortunate to be weighted 81b above the minimum, oh..the same mark as Cricket. However, this is what often happens when a horse runs into places without winning, as Play On was doing towards the close of the t winter I