TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 120, 22 May 1940, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Foxton acceptances are due at 8 o'clock this evening. After riding Old Surrey to victory at Awapuni on Saturday, L. Knapp's apprentice, J. Williamson, went north for the final day at Waikato, where he brought home Philemup at a win dividend approaching two score. Two years ago Cheval de Volee failed to show up in the Te Rapa Handicap at Waikato and then went on to win the A.R.C. Cornwall Handicap at his next start. Again he failed to make any showing in the Te Rapa Handicap this year. He looks well treated in the Cornwall with 8.13.

Monte' Cristo, who opened his winning account at Te Rapa on Monday, is a three-year-old colt by Bronze Eagle out of the Archiestoun —Maheno mare Archeno, a useful performer in soft ground. He Has had little racing and is evidently promising. Cottingham took no ill-effects from his two races at Washdyke last week, and there "was no sign of his old leg trouble. In all probability he will be nominated for the Dunedin Winter Meeting, and, all going well, he will then be a candidate for the Wellington Steeplechase in July. Lady Rene, who was formerly trained at Trentham and won a number of races in the North Island and later on the West Coast, has a promising-look-ing colt by Roy don owned by Mr. H. G. Carter, of Kamaka, who is the judge at Greymouth.