TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 6, 6 July 1940, Page 21

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu HuEnt nominations at 9 o'clock on Monday evening. Grand National weights are due on Tuesday week. P. Atkins's mounts at Trentham on Tuesday will include Kriemhild, Hetfoic Maid, and Noble Fox or Young Charles. B. H. Morris will be riding Disdain, Lord Cavendish, Dainty Dell, and Little Robin at Trentham on Tuesday. Race Away, who will be ridden by A. E. Ellis at Trentham on Tuesday, has been a consistent place-getter since his transfer to the South Island, and he is now a member of E. J. Ellis's Washdyke team. The only South Island winner on the opening day of the Wellington Meeting last July was Survoy in the Wellington Steeplechase, and the other two open steeplechases at the meeting were taken by another South Islander, Slayer. Tutor's choice in a race seems to rest mainly on his opponents expending themselves, and Trentham in the winter affords him this hope. Last July he came home from a' bad last to finish twice in the minor money. Stable doubles in the Whyte Handicap and Stewards' Handicap at Trentham on Tuesday are Francis Drake and Catalogue, Ned Cuttle and Majority, Sly Fox and Blonde Princess, and Lady Tinkle and Mittie. Sheeny, who figures in the field for the Te Aro Handicap at Trentham on Tuesday, has some recent winning form in the South Island to commend her prospects. At her last start she was successful in the seven furlongs Domain Handicap at Dunedin a month ago, coming right away from her opposition over the last furlong. She is a well-bred mare* being a daughter of Rabbi and the Limond —Termination mare Cessation, a very useful full sister to the Wellington Cup and Great Northern Hurdles winner Stanchion and a half-sister to Prostration* another good performer. For the duration of the war., the Randwick trainer J. King has offered to the government his private training establishment at Woodstock as an air training school. The property covers 400 acres. As an alternative suggestion, King has promised the Woodstock homestead and property for the training of an emergency squad of 40 or 50 men between the ages of 40 and 55 years in whatever capacity the military authorities think fit. The trainer has also offered to maintain the men free of charge for two months, or to give £500 towards their upkeep. Hagen was scratched for all engagements at the Wellington Winter Meeting at 11.10 a.m. yesterday. i