TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1939, Page 21

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

The racing at Trentham on Monday will commence at-12.12 p.zn. ,: Acceptances for the final day of the Wellington Meeting on Monday are due at 9. o'clock this evening. . . ■"■ The Taranaki Autumn -Meeting' this year will not be held till March 9 and 11, nearly a month later than usual. Though displaying, nervousness, Great Quex was better behaved at the barrier at Trentham on Thursday than he has been at. other recent meetings. Winners on the final day at Trentham last year who may be racing again on, Monday were Siegmund, Haughty Winner, Mishna, and Ivar.

Wildflower, who. won the Ashhurst Cup last year, will be contesting the seven furlongs - Raumai Handicap on Monday. The mare will be having her first race this season.

Filetto showed a fine turn of speed out in front till the last furlong in. the Ruapehu Handicap at Trentham on Thursday, and if taken, to Ashhurst she should be one of the hard ones to beat over a furlong shorter distance on Monday v- " ■ . • . It is understood that the three .yearlings purchased by the Papakura sportswoman Mrs. R. L. Jack at the National Sales will be trained at Takanini- by A. Tinker.

The Sandwich Man, who ran second in the Wellington Cup on Thursday, is now owned by the better-known trotting trainer D. A. Withers. . It was bad luck for Beaupartir to have run up against, a three-year-old of Defaulter's class in the classics this season, for in practically any other year he would have been easily the best of '"is age in the Derbies and such races. .

The Tiderace—My Own. colt, who fetched the top price at the yearling sales (1450g5), and the colt by Myoso-. tis —Wartone, purchased for Australia, will go to M. Grbgan's Grange Stud at Westmere to be handled. The colt by Phaleron Bay—Columbia, bought by Dr. McGregor Grant, of Auckland, will also be broken in by Grogan.