TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 July 1939, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

First acceptances for the Grand Nationals are due tomorrow week. Christchurch Hunt .entries close tomorrow.

Beaulivre has commenced work at Hastings, and is stated' to be exceptionally well at the .moment. In ail probability he will be allowed to forgo his engagements in Australia. Wild Chase is to take up stud duties at the Stonyhurst Stuu in tllfe near future. He is a well-bred horse, with a wealth of sound performances to recommend him.

: British Monarch, an. unraced four-year-old gelding by British Empire from Shelter, broke a leg while exercising at Ellerslie on Tuesday. He was showing a good deal of promise on the track, and his loss is a severe one. The yearling full-brother to Indian Sunj by. Bulandshar from Sunbar, is shaping attractively in '--'s training essays at Hawera: and r c? *d future is predictedl for ium. John Charles looked-. \* .'ll enough before going out to contest the Wellingtoa Steeplechase, but he ran himself out so soon that there must be a tfoubt whether he did not strain himself in the Great Northern Steeplechase.

Diamond Cutter, who was secured at the Trentham sale last week by Mr. A. McMullian. owner oi" Disturbed, has been placed in H. Scally's charge at Hawera.

The Auckland jockey L. Dulieu will be riding at the Hawke's Bay Hunt Meeting on Saturday, when his mounts will include Kinkajou and Gran vale. As the result of his forward showings at Trentham it has been decided to send Tutor to Riccarton next month, but another Aucklander in" All Irish did not do well on the trip and will forgo his engagements. The former Australian jockey W. Johnstone won the Prix dv Bois Raoud and the Prix dv Point' dv Jour at Longchamp at the end of May. Student Prince, who met with an injury which/ necessitated his missing the Wellington Meeting, is again in active commission "at Hawera and is stated to be .very well./ . . • Two Stonyhurst stallions have been disposed of recently.- Jericho, by Archery—Judith, is to be located in the Culverden district in the future, and Cricket Bat, by Winning Hit— Equipment, will be at Hornby. The Heroic —Ashtar two-year-old gelding Cornaro, who was passed at the clearing sale of the late Mr. W. Higgins's stock last week, was purchased later by a Hamilton syndicate, and he will remain in H. Tclford's stable.