Turf Topics

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 174, 17 June 1940, Page 8

Turf Topics

Breeding- Recommends Hi^m. following live minor placings in nine starts, Opoho scored his first success of the season Avhen lie won the Wliatatu Hurdles at Hastings. Opoho is an eight year old gelding by Defoe from Azure Sky, by Killjoy from Golden Sky, by San Fran, and he traces back to Juliet (imp), so that on the score of breeding he has a good deal to recommend him. Foxbridge-Golden Princess Colt. One of the rising two year olds at Ellerslie who is making steady progress is the colt by Foxbridge from Golden Princess. When first taken in hand by G. Holland, he was very backward, but he is growing and thickening out and each w r eek shows improvement. Golden Princess is by Lackham from Panette and a half-sister to Pantoon, who has been slioAving good form in Melbourne. Sister to Wotan. Included in H. Dulieu's New Plymouth team is Kriemhild, a full sister to the Melbourne Gup winner, Wotan. Although only in work a few weeks she opened her winning account at the Wanganui meeting. Surveyor representative, Du Maurier, is considered to be a very prominent candidate for Grand National honours. Even now he is in very forward racing condition. Time .Works Wonders. A feature of the racing at Bllerslic on Monday Avas the winning form exhibited by the Te Arohn candidate, Hessketoon, who Avell ridden by Jack Mcßae, never left the issue in doubt. This Musketoon—Hession gelding was not at all a success in his early racing career, and last season was purchased by R. M. Taylor, of Te Aroha, for a very moderate sum. A Galloper of Note. Prival, the winner of a double at the Great Northern meeting, is by Vaals —Cradle Song. He was bred by Stonex Bros of Auckland, but who sold him tc Lloyd Bros last sea son. Since then lie has undergone an operation for respiratory trouble and that the operation AA r as successful was proved by his Ellersiie win? which were certainly full of merit. A Grand National Prospect. In the Manawatu district the Well-bred Filly. The three year old filly Flying Flag scored her second win in succession when she Avon the Clifton Hack Handicap at Hastings recently. Flying Flag is a lialf-isister to the good steeplechaser Slayer and has some sound staying iTlood in her pedigree, being by. Lord Warden from Battleflag, by Martian from Lady Kinloch, by Menschikoff

A Useful Sprinter. Consistency has been a feature of the form of Endorsement and she registered her fifth success of the season Avhen she scored in the Heretaunga Handicap at Hastings. She is a useful sprinter and has breed* ing that should make her valuable as a brood mare when her racing days are over. Endorsement is a three year old filly by Iliad, son of Swynford, from Endorse, by Paper Money from Epitaph, by Absurd from Eulogv (iinp)j ! [The Minimum Weight. ■ When the summer minimum weight was amended last year, as ap plying only to April 30, the month of May was not governed by any scale, excepting that in general application under the "Rules of Racing. The executive committee of the Racing Conference desires to leave it optional during that month for clubs to use either the summer or the winter scale, but a remit to be presented by the Wanganui District Committee to the forthcoming Conference seeks to bring in the winter scale from May instead of June 1.