TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 17

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Second-day Egmont acceptances aie due at noon tomorrow. „.,.„„ to . Though not engaged at Hawera today, Chat will probably be taking her place in the Nolan Hack Cup on SatUrp?ime Quality, who at last struck winnSl f£m on the final day of the recent Wellington Meeting, maybe having his next start m the Nolan Hack Cup at Hawera on Saturday. From India the death is reported of the New Zealand-bred Heritage, by Posterity from Homage, winner of the WI T C Eclipse Stakes. He died from 3 iTvin'ncro^ the West Australian Turf Club's Meeting on Australia pay (last Monday week) was the Dominionbred Study, a four-year-old half-brotner by Iliad to Knightlike, Netley, The Surgeon, and Clemency (dam of Kindheart and Baran). Erua, who has recently won three hurdle events in succession m Melbourne, has so impressed the /ianaicappers that for the Epsom Meeting last Saturday he was weighted, at 11.10, a rise of 151b on his previous victory at Moonee Valley and I6li> above the weight given to Triteiiia, who won the 1937 V.R.C. Grand National Hurdles. The decision of the Taranaki Jockey Club to confine the juvenile events on the programme for its Autumn Meeting next month to two-year-olds appears to have met with general approval. Many owners of two-year-olds are not inclined to race them against horses a year older under handicap conditions. News of Whenuakura, the most brilliant two-year-old of his year before he broke down and now seven years old, comes indirectly from Melbourne, where the Chief Ruler gelding has been racing without showing any promise of staging a comeback the last twelve months. The report states that the former cross-country rider W. Sandiford, who has been training Whenuakura for Mr. G. Moore, has surrendered his permit to train, as he has become proprietor of a hotel, and he has returned the gelding to the Dominion.