TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 98, 22 October 1940, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

The music at the Wellington Meeting will be provided by the Trentham MThlre w!ll d be no luncheon during the Wellington Meeting this year, but pies and afternoon tea will be- provided as usual. Th<s kiosk will not be open, being reserved for a women s lounge but new tea-rooms will be open at the north end of the main grandstand. , , , j The Rangitikei Racing Club has decided to conduct the totalisator on the win-and-place system at its meeting on November 2. Mr Jas. Bull, of Hunterville, has donated a whip for the rider of the winner of the J. F. McKelyie Memorial Handicap at the Rangitikei Meeting. Monetary, a Paper Money—Kakara colt from Dunedin, was omitted from the acceptors for the Taita Handicap at Trentham on Thursday. Royal Star II failed to do better than fourth at Stratford on Saturday, but he may not lose many of his friends for Trentham-on that account. El Maadi, surprise winner of the juvenile event at Stratford on Saturday, is the two-year-old half-sister by Vermeer to Phyto, who won her first race at Masterton two days earlier. Smoke Screen will probably be favourite for the Glen Hurdles at Trentham on Thursday, but investors. seeking something safer will give a thought to the two South Islanders, Recollection and Esperance Bay. Great Fair looks to have his full measure of weight in the Glen Hurdles at Trentham.on. Thursday, for ,he has won only a single race in his career, yet has been given 9.10, only 31b under Esperance Bay, who in August won the open Sydenham Hurdles at Riccarton. R. E. Humphries, who was riding at Masterton last Saturday, has transferred to W. H. Dwyer's stable at Wanganui. R. J. Mackie, who was at Riccarton for a time, has gone back south to D. P. Wilson's stable at Mosgiel, and he will do most of the future riding for that establishment.