TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 150, 21 December 1940, Page 15

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Manawatu second-day acceptances are due at noon on Monday. , ;

The two-year-old race at Manawatu next Thursday is for colts and geldings only, but both sexes come in on the final day. I

Siegmund is still spelling as a result of his leg injury and he may. not race again this season. >

Doria would have been a good pro-? spect at Ellerslie, and investors will undoubtedly apply this logic when viewing her chance in the sprints at Dunedin. v Saxon Tor was galloped on while contesting the Flying Handicap at Te Awamutu last Saturday, but his injury has responded to treatment and is riot expected to cause him any inconvenience. ■ . Gay Parade will not go south for the Waikouaiti Cup. He will race at Hokitika and remain on the West Coast for the remainder of the circuit. Dispense is to be physicked and will not accompany Schoolgirl south, says a Riccarton report. He has been lame lately and will have a rest for a short Not Out, who will change to middledistance racing in the Otago Handicap, 1 mile and 2& furlongs, at Dunedin next Thursday, has the credentials to get the trip, as he is by Winning Hit out of the Paper Money mare Dutch Money, who is closely related to Bon Bord, the dam of Count Cavour and | Gustavo. ' I

Though it was understood that the two-year-old Royce would be spelled on his arrival in the north, he is now among the daily workers at Takanini. Superex, who has not raced for a couple of seasons, will come put of retirement to. compete among the hurdlers at Wingatui. Superex, trained by P. T. Hogan at Washdyke, is an eight-year-old bay gelding by Night Raid from Mazatuko, a Last Dart mare, and earlier in his career he gave promise that was not wholly fulfilled. .

Few horses at Takanini have been working better than Gold Money Song, and. the speedy son of Hunting Song and Gold Money is assured of support in any of his immediate engagements,. This gelding's future may be retarded to some extent by his waywardness, but whenever he leaves the barrier correctly there are few sprinters who can toe the pace with him.

The following riding engagements are announced for Auckland:—L. Dulieu, Kaiwaka, Saxon Tor; H. Maria, Master Appellant; A. C. Messervy, Endorsement and Silver Quex; J. Chaplin, Agog; C. G. Goulsbro', Sly Fox, Karatoki, Forest Bridge, Bronze Moth; N. Vaughan, Landsman; R. McTavish, Proud Fox; L. J. Ellis, Arvakur; K. McMinn, Gold Money Song; S. Tremain, Lady Acushla, British Talent; G. Cameron, Odtaa, Night Pilot, Clinch