TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 47, 24 August 1939, Page 17

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

First-day acceptances for the Combined Hunts Meeting at New Plymouth next week are due tomorrow. Pin Money, who has been off the scene for well over two years, has been nominated for Wanganui, a course on which he won the Guineas in 1934. He is now owned by Mr. B. T. Bennett. Improved betting facilities by the' removal or remodelling of the present totalisator house are to be discussed at the next meeting of the Ashhurst stewards. Malik Kafur. an Australian-bred son of Fox-Earth, had only one race as a juvenile last season, but he then impressed as a colt who should make good, and it is interesting to note his nomination in , the maiden events at Wanganui. ! Orate, who is booked to race at New j Plymouth next week, is now being] trained by his owner, Mr. J. C. Edmunds, who has acquired a training establishment at Ellerslie. H. Gray, who had Namara and The Dozer engaged at New Plymouth, has decided against the trip. Tooley Street did not return home from the Grand National Meeting and j he. is to remain at Riccarton,- where ] it is intended to prepare him for the | New Zealand Cup, run in November. | The four-year-old Mintlaw has been recommissioned at Ellerslie by R. S. Bagby, and he is stated to be in excellent shape to undergo a preparation. Last season he secured two firsts and four minor placings in nine starts. It is reported that the three-year-old Gold Salute may leave about the end of this month to do his spring racing in Australia. The Lord Warden colt showed a lot of promise as a two-year-old, and the easy style in which he won his division of the Longbeach Handicap at Riccarton • last month left the impression that he may go on to good class. He will be ridden in Australia by A. E. Ellis.