TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 71, 21 September 1939, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

New Zealand Cup handicaps are due to make their appearance tomorrow.

Ruling Spi. who failed at the Grand National Meeting, will probably go to the stud this season.

W. D. Moroney, who still holds a trainer's licence, was runner-up in the Carterton senior golf championship recently. Kena, a disappointment at A.vondale, has been returned to H. B. Lorigan and he will have a brief respite before racing again.

Francolin, the dam of Night Wings, Ortyx, Dark Flight, and Gold Flight, is booked to Salmagundi this season. The two-year-old' Croupier colt Compismo, a member of T. R. George's team, has made a good recovery from the cold that kept him from the tracks for a fortnight.

Sceptre, who ran a very promising third at the Foxton Meeting, is owned in Wellington by Mr. A. A. Stichbury and she is now trained at Awapuni by Mrs. A. W. McDonald. She should not be hard to place for an early maiden success.

Pure Gold, the full-brother to Hall Mark and successful again last Saturday, has been scratched for the A.J.C. Derby and he is now being set for the Caulfield Cup and Victoria Derby.

■" Prudent Prince, whc won "aX" Ashburton last Saturday, is engaged in the Dunedin Guineas. He was got by Lord Quex from Squeeze, a sister to Cuddle and half-sister to Padishah.

E. Bartle has been engaged to ride Speardale in the Epsom Handicap. D. Munro, who rode Sedunum into third place? in the Tramway Handicap at Tattersall's Meeting, will have the mount on that horse in the Epsom.

According to a Sydney report, the veterinary surgeon Mr. R. Stewart expects that the imported stallion Cheveley Lad. owned by the A.J.C. committeeman Mr. P. H. Osborne, will be saved for stud purposes, by means of an aluminium bracket, which will be attached to and follow the action of the hind leg. Cheveley Lad, who is at Mr. Osborne's property, Tarago. broke his off hind leg late last month. He is one of the only two sons of Fairway at the stud in Australia.