TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Egmont nominations are due tomorrow evening.

Nelson first-day acceptances close on Monday evening.

Disturbed has been accepted for the hurdles, the steeplechase, and the hack cup events at Waverley on Saturday.

Slayer, who won at his first start over country on the opening day of the Riverton Meeting, was not produced on the succeeding days because one of his legs filled slightly after his winning effort.

A rising two-year-old by Blatherskite from March Off, the dam of Gold Boa, Disband, and others, is shortly to join W. E. Hancock's team at Wingatui; also a rising three-year-old filly by Paladin from a Martian mare.

Although he beat an open sprint field on the last day at Riverton Waitoru has been nominated for the hack races at the South Canterbury Meeting. Waitoru's Riverton win was only his second to date and he still has some way to go before he graduates from the hack ranks.

Mataroa, who has now emerged from hack ranks, will have his first start in open class in the Patea County Handicap at Waverley on Saturday. Though he has a winning chance, he does not look too well treated only 51b below Wildflower in the weights. Although Sporting Gift has been given in most published lists as the acceptor for the Waverley Steeplechase, it seems clear that the horse intended is Sporting Song, and the list of original nominations shows that it was Sporting Song who was entered for the race.

Gold Wren suffered no ill-effects from the two spills he had at Riverton. In fact, he has been improved by the outings and has thrown off the leg trouble which affected his preparation for Riverton. The Song Bird gelding should come into his own again at the winter meetings.

Mungatoon did not get into the money at Riverton, but he ran two good races all the same and the first lime he gets a heavy track he may return to the winning list. He won the Timaru Cup and the chi~f event on the second day on a holding track at the South Canterbury Meeting last year, and he has been nominated for both races again this month. The Rabbi horse Synagogue won a good race at Bombay on March 12. Carrying 8.8, he ran the mile in lmin 37 4-ssec, four-fifths of a second outside the course record. Synagogue is trained by the former Australian R. Higgins.