MARLBOROUGH IN GENERAL

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 31, 7 February 1933, Page 4

MARLBOROUGH IN GENERAL

Seven times in the last fourteen years the" same horse has won the Egmont and the laranaki Cups, However, the double cannot be recorded this ■ year, as Fiji, the Jigmont winner, was not nominated at New Plymouth. Lady Quex and Refresher are engaged in both the Cup and the sprint at New ■Myniouth on Thursday, and Cereal is in the sprint and the hack eight and a half furlongs. Lady Quex has never yet gone beyond a, mile, and, although it is her owner's intention to try her over a jour?i? y'iifc would look as if thesprint were the better race for her this week. Refresher, on the other hand, would appear a better proposition over distances now. Inflation reads to be well placed in the weights for the Dunedin Publicans' Handicap on Thursday. His 8.2 is 21b less than he was awarded on the second day at the recent Wellington Meeting, so that lie will be meeting Cricket Bat at 21b better, terms for not having been started against him on the final day. Be is certainly the more likely to have improved with his Trentham racing. Mr. H. Edmonds, owner of Inflation, has purchased Easterly, and that hurdle mare has goue into the care of Mrs. A. W. McDouald at' Awapuni. ' It is reported from Hawkes Bay that J. H.Jefferd has made a start with the Australian-bred two-year-old colt? by Magpie from Linton Lowrie. He was placed in the care of the North Island trainer <by the Victorian owner, Mr. L: K. S. Mackinnon. . . ' .

The well-known' Otago jockey, B. H. Brodie, intends to apply for a trainer's licence after .the Dunedin Jockey Club's Meeting this week. He is a very capable rider, who. will be missed in the South if he ■ decides to confine his attention entirely to training. . • ' The Takanini trainer, T?'. E. Pope, has commenced handling his Whirlwind colts, and'both youngsters are taking kindly to their early education, states a southern report. They are both owned by the Waikatp sportsman/Mr. R. T. Reid, who bred theht from-the • stud matrons, Legality (dam of Bambury) and Lorna Doon. At the—Trerithain -sales the Legality colt brought no bid, and the other was passed in at 20-guineas. -

• Royal. Artist has had an easy time in the paddocks since his return from Wellington, states a Takanini report, but ho' is shortly to resume a further preparation for the Te Aroha Cup. /This gelding invariably races best -when fresh, and the short let-up lie will have had should prove beneficial when undergoing another pre•paration.. ■ , ':: ; : - ' ' ■~-... ..:

;i::Gujfi«Jw--:-J)ae^, agaiii. at;:CJreenmead.ows imder tlie ttiitiofi p£ Ws old educator, W. MsJKinnqn...:,He. is^' foui-year:old gelding %;4'a"sio'ftowHyinarty,andrlast season showed'put successfully in a couple of his efforts.. *His principal victory was effected iii the Champibh Hack Plate at,'the Spring Meeting of the Avondale Jockey Club;; :■■■ •• ■ • • ; .

; At. least three, clubs will be applying the win-and-place system of dividend dis'tribntion this week. The Tar'anaki; Club, which' ihaugurated the mode in the Do-.'-miiiibn,--; will'use the method again, and ;the.'Dunedin.»and \Poverty <Bay Jockey Glubs: will^also have the system operating 'at: their; meetings.. . ••;-•., ■ ■ Seyeral 'good judges expressed the opinion that Autopay had been accorded a great winning chance in the Wellington .Cup ,with, 7.13, but his owners decided to let the opportunity slip for the open sprint on the same day, and/as he won that event, the' choice was amply justified. The Dunedin handicapper' has been a lot more careful with' him in placing him on 8.7 in-the Dunedin Cup, while dropping Great Star and Jalous 21b and 41b respectively. I Although Mr.:J. M. Samson was not a buyer at. the Trentham sales, he will not be short of candidates, for next season's two-year-old events, as he has four promising youngsters'ready to be broken'in. One: of' them is a filly by Weathervane from Entre Nous, the dam of Guarantee.