TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 23

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Racing ne*xt week at Auckland (Monday), Wanganui and Wairoa (Thurs--1 day and Saturday), and Canterbury, Matanaata, and Tapanui (Saturday), - ■ Egmorit nominations are due on Monday evening. :■■■■ Mr. J. A. Betts, who now owns Defy •as well as Primak and Sky Limit, has second colours with red stripes on blue, instead of red spots on blue, his first colours. St. Cedric, who has been taken .over on lease by Mr. E. L. McKeon, -of Christchurch, has joined F. Christ--inas's team at Riccarton. In recent .races he has behaved badly at the barrier.

' Night Eruption, who brought about W. J. Broughton's suspension for a couple of months; had several times run it. sharply as she did last Monday just after taking the lead. At Otaki in the spring she won a "double, and her apprentice rider was then cautioned on both occasions for not keeping her straight. Prediction, formerly trained at Trentham, will do his future racing in the colours' of the Riccarton trainer C. C. McCarthy, who bought him at the sales last week. Ejitail. is. also-now in McCarthy's stable, having been purchased by Miss M. C. Wilson, who raced Argentic.

... Cuddle's first foal,.a bay colt by. the Surveyor horse Croupier, has had the name of Gamble bestowed upon him. He will in due course carry the same colours as his famous dam, those of -Mr. R. J. Murphy, of Wellington. :;Disdam,' formerly trained by L. G. Morris at Awapurii, accompanied F D. Jones's horses back to Riccarton after the. Wellington Meeting. The change of stables has been made as a preliminary to racing her at the : Dunediri Jockey Club's Meeting next month. She is owned in Christchurch, where she was originally trained.

The performance of Lady Tinkle in winning two races on the same day at Trentham was unusual but not unique. Kozan registered the feat at a Hawke's Bay meeting on the course in 1931, but the races he won were the second and eighth. Back in 1924 at Riccarton that brilliant Elysian gelding Wassail won two races under solid imposts on the final day of the Grand National Meeting after not having raced on either of the edrlier days, and it was generally understood at-tliVtljne that a big coup was landed