TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 4, 4 July 1940, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Single-pool at Hastings and win-and-place at Oamaru on Saturday. A profit of £2000 was secured for patriotic funds at the Waikato Meeting last Saturday. Tutor, winner- of the steeplechase at Te Rapa last Saturday, was recently purchased at a moderate figure by Mr. J. C. Edmunds, who also secured a bargain last season in Orate. L W Forde, who rode Flying Acre to success at Waikato last Saturday in his second mount in public, is apprenticed to J. W. Cathro at Matamata. , , R Register has been engaged to ride Nightbound at Trentham next week. Register was Santoft's pilot in the 1937 Wellington Steeplechase. _ The proposed match between A]ax and High Caste at Randwick next Sep- j tember in aid of the Red Cross may ; be altered to one between Ajax and) Reading. The connections of High; Caste have offered to withdraw and I allow the dual Derby winner the hon- : our of measuring paces with Ajax. Nominations for the Manawatu Hunt Club's Meeting at Awapuni on July 20 are due at 9 o'clock on Monday evening. i At its monthly meeting this week the committee of the Canterbury Jockey Club decided to give the profits for each year during the period of the war to the war funds, as was done during last war, when £11,500 was donated in this way. The club also invested a large sum of money in- war loans during the years from' 1914 to 1918.