TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 63, 14 March 1940, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Wellington second-day acceptances are due at noon tomorrow.

Wairarapa Easter nominations are due at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening.

Trench Law is likely to go to Riccarton at Easter for the Great Autumn Handicap, a race won by a Trentham horse the last two years. Ringling, who is missing the Wellington Meeting, has been sent north, for the Ohinemuri Meeting on Saturday and Monday instead.

Siegmund has done well since the weekend and he is expected to go a good race in the Autumn Handicap at Trentham on Saturday. ,• Sigurd, who is now trained at Ellerslie, is being educated as a hurdler, and he gave a promising display over four fences on Tuesday.

Waka, who is related to Luna Lux, is racing on the flat at Trentham, but it is his trainer's intention to educate him as a jumper when he returns south. He was operated on for respiratory trouble during his spell. After their racing at New Plymouth last week, Empire Action, Liberal's Mint. Sleepy, and the two-year-old Liberation were turned out. H. Dulieu intends placing Noble Fox in work again after his return from Trentham next week. Dulieu has purchased Young Charles on his own behalf. During the course of the Taranaki Meeting the. two-year-old filly Mariliad was sold by Mrs. C. M. Bennett to Mr. H. A. Glasgow, who races Colossal Chief. Mariliad,. who is by Iliad frbm Chief Marionette, had her first race last Thursday. The jockey A. Cur ran suffered concussion in a fall from Gascyne in the Kaimai Hurdles at Tauranga on Monday, and was removed to hospital. Curran made a good recovery when Gascyne "struck the first fence in the straight, but was unseated at the next. J. F. Fergus, rider of Chikara, who fell, escaped with a slight leg injury. In the Motiti Handicap the apprentice A. Spinley received a broken collarbone when Aberdovey fell. Companion, who ran third in the Australian Cup at Flemington last Saturday, is a four-year-old entire halfbrother by Night Raid to Might and Boomerang, and so it is not surprising that he possesses stamina, as Might was third in a New Zealand Cup. finishing better than either Steeton or Gold Trail, who led him home. Companion appears to have stayed on solidly, though the race was easily won by Concertpitch broke down badly during a working gallop at Riccarton yesterday, and he was withdrawn from all engagements at the Canterbury Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting at 9.40 a.m.