TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 55, 7 March 1939, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Wellington first-day weights are due tomorrow. I

The Taranaki Autumn Meeting opens on Thursday, when the Taranaki Cup will be decided.

As events have turned out, Ruling Star was wisely not accepted for the maiden event at Carterton next Saturday. A Ruling Spi, unplaced over a sprint course at Bulls, will tackle a middledistance in the Wairarapa County Cup next Saturday, leaving the sprint to her stablemate, Export. Liane will be having her first start since her spell following the Masterton Meeting last October when she contests the open seven at Carterton on Saturday. Lustral has been working along very satisfactorily on the Trentham tracks recently, and he should be a hard horse to beat in the highweight event at Carterton on Saturday. With his recent run of success the Trentham trainer T. R. George has taken himself within striking range of the leaders on the trainers' list for the season. He has now 17 points, which is seven behind L. G. Morris, who is at present on top. It was as a result of a last-minute decision that Dungarvan was not taken to Bulls. When the horses were being loaded on Friday he appeared to be just a bit tender, and so he was left 1 Bridegroom, an aged Mimetic gelding who contested the Trial Plate at Rangitikei on Saturday, the Awapuni trainer L. Knapp appears to Have. a likely type for the jumping ranks later on. Snigger registered her best performance yet when she ran second to Ruling' Star in the maiden event at Bulls, and the Laughing Prince filly appears to be appreciating the easier preparation now being accorded her. Entheos found the ground too hard for his liking at Bulls, and he was very sore after contesting the Hurdles. The state of the track was responsible for the defection of Riotous from the same event. Making his first appearance in open company at Bulls, Golden Ridge went quite a promising race for the major portion of the journey, but he was beaten for pace over the fiftal V^chThe old-standing record of Marguerite, established in 1907, went by the board when Peerless won the Rangitikei Cup on .Saturday in 2mm feecf the Trentham filly clipping the odd fractions off the record.. Though : Peerless was the public choice on the. totalisator, the stable thought that Galteemore would go the better race but Peerless's class told above Galteemore's hard condition.