TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 91, 19 April 1939, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Egmont nominations are due on Friday. ~, ■. Marlborough nominations will be taken up till next Wednesday. Nelson first-day acceptances close next Monday evening. As there was a doubt about the Nelson fields filling too well, Floral Robe has been left in training till after the Nelson-Blenheim circuit. Debham has recovered from the slight soreness that kept him in his box during the Easter carnival, and, all going well, he will next race at Nelson. , . ... Siegliende, though failing to justify her backing at Stratford, -is liable to make amends before long, possibly at Waverley on Saturday. She is a four-year-old daughter of Siegfried and that good Day Comet mare Gold Dawn. Spearford, surprise winner of the hack seven at Avondale on Monday, is a four-year-old chestnut entire son of Spear Dance and the Bunyan mare Sibford, hence he is a half-brother to the A.R.C. Railway winner Awarere and to Kurapae and Gallant Knight. He provided the Trentham horseman P. Burgess with his second success at the meeting. Deficit, though he failed at Stratford, should find the five furlongs at Waverley on Saturday more to his liking. He is now out of hack ranks and this will be his last race in the class.

Rehearsal, the half-brother by Limond to Chief Ranger, is due to make his reappearance in the hack five furlongs at Waverley on Saturday. A winner at Manawatu' as a juvenile, he has been off the scene since he unsuccessfully contested the Wanganui Guineas in the spring.

The Southland steeplechaser Gold Wren had his first fall in the Great Western Steeplechase,at Riverton. He had not previously tackled such a long journey against stout opposition and he was tiring before he crashed. He was out again on the last day to run third in the Autumn Steeplechase.

The Randwick trainer W. Booth has bought the Heroic horse Silver Standard, whom he will continue to race for a time and eventually retire to his Tatyoon Stud. Silver Standard began his career in Booth's stables, where he was prepared for Mr. H. S. Thompson, who later sold the horse to Mr. W. A. Freeman.

Mr. Alan Cooper, who raced Talking, Mala, and others, re-entered the ranks of owners when he purchased the four-year-old Tippler horse Micawber from the Randwick trainer B. R. Payten on the morning prior to the third day's racing at the A.J.C. Autumn Meeting. The horse was the subject of a plunge at a short quotation, but was beaten in a close finish by Mildura. Mr. Cooper has since made further purchases at the yearling sales.