TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 70, 20 September 1939, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Marton acceptances are due at 9 o'clock this evening.

Galteemore, Alunga, and Silver Lance have resumed work at Trentham.

Beaulivre has returned £780 out of the 2900 guineas paid for him by, Mr. E. C. Harnett in his first three races in his new colours.

Kentucky, twice narrowly beaten at Avondale in his first two starts, is the first offspring of the Solario stallion Vermeer to be raced. Mr. M. J. Moodabe paid 210 guineas for him at the yearling sales. Sly Fox further confirmed the opinion formed of him prior to his success at Wanganui recently when he won at Avondale on Monday. He is the best open handicapper at present racing in the Dominion. The Whangarei Racing Club decided at the weekend to continue its activities this season, despite the war conditions, and the stakes for the spring fixture have been increased from £2300 to £2500.

Peerless arrived back in the Dominion from Sydney on Monday. She lost a bit of condition, but looked better than expected. It is probable that she will resume racing at Trentham next month.

The maiden entered for the Marton Meeting as a Senora gelding has been named Waimutu.- He Is a six-year-old bay son of Royal Divorce and is owned by Mr. H. J. Cameron, of Turakina. Mr. H. McManaway has named his two Leighon youngsters Black Robe and Nationalist the pair being respectively out of Habit and Rule Britannia. They are both engaged at Marton on Saturday. No horse has done better at Trentham during the past couple of months than the Safari ■ three-year-old Globe Trotter, who has grown into a very commanding individual. He can gallop, too, as he showed yesterday when beating Yours Truly over six furlongs in his first fast trial since his resumption.

In a letter to a friend at.Trentham receiyed over the weekend, T. R. George stated that Beau Vite had improved out of knowledge during the month he had been in Sydney and he thought he had a wonderful chance of winning the Derbies. Whether the colt goes on to Melbourne depends on his showing at Randwick.

Although Pearl of Asia has so far disappointed in Australia, the reason has not been that she has failed to come fit but troubles incidental to her sex. T. R. George has hopes that she will strike form during the currency of the A.J.C. Meeting opening on Saturday week.

One of the minor commissions T. R. George has had in Sydney is to seek likely Australian boys to serve riding apprenticeships in the Dominion. George has so far succeeded in securing two boys for his own stable, and he will also bring his former apprentice. A. W. Sim back with him. He is now on the lookout for boys for other stables.

The dividends paid by Beaulivre in winning the Avondale Guineas on Monday gave the same shock to investors as those paid by Padishah in the Grand National Steeplechase did. In each case the place return was much better than the win return. It therefore often pays to back the hot favourites on the place machine in preference to the win machine.