TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 133, 8 June 1939, Page 17

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Classic nominations in the Dominion close tomorrow.

Otaki nominations are due next Monday. A hack hurdles and a hack steeples again figure 'on the programme. Beau Vite's main mission in Australia in the spring will be the Derbies and perhaps the Melbourne Cup. Valmint's win in the York Handicap at Ellerslie yesterday was his first since he took the Jellicoe Handicap at the Pakuranga Hunt Meeting nearly two years ago, yet he was the both-way favourite. , All Irish was enjoying his first success this season when he won the Winter Steeplechase at Ellerslie yesterday. His last victory was in the July Steeples at Trentham last winter. Although Clarion Call has been exercising again at Awapuni it is considered unlikely that he will be seen in public this winter. He has not raced since August last, when he won the Grand National Steeplechase and ran third in the Grand National Hurdle race. According to a Riccarton report, Jewish Lad has recovered from the mishap that made a short rest necessary and he is bowling along again in useful tasks. He will contest the hurdle race at Ashburton and then will be got ready for the Grand National Meeting in August. The French-bred horse Actor, who has been at the Grange Stud, Westmere, for the past four months in order to have the benefit of New Zealand pasture, is being sent back to his owner, Mr. Sol Green, in Melbourne this week. Actor has done well while in the Dominion and he is in good order to face his second season at the stud.