TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 149, 27 June 1933, Page 4

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Although the Manawatu Hunt Club is holding two meetings tins beauon, the club had not laced for the thiee sejjoue piior to, this term. liouble, who won the Manawatu Hunt Cup in September last, also contested' the 1928 Hunt Cup, the last until this season. Then eight years old, he was favourite, but wab unplaced. The master of, the Manawatu; Hounds, Mr. L. H. Collinson, will be represented in the Manawatu Hunt Cup tomoirow with Postman, who ran fouith last September. Mr. Coihneon won the race with I Gaekwar in 1921, and he has provided the runner-up three tunes with CJackwav (once) and Bnkenose (twice). " ' Coonoor, who is. due to contest the > Manawatu Hunt Cup tomorrow, carnes, the colours of Mr. G. D. Bcatson, ownei i of Luna Lux, and president of r the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club. He raced out in front at Hastings a foitnight ago so long as his condition lasted, Mr. Beatson won the Manawatu Hunt Cup in 1026 with Aotca 1-toa. Aceivate, the winner of the Napier-1 Steeples last Thursday, ran two seconds] at the Manawatu Hunt Meeting in Sep-' teniber. Only Trouble beat her in the' Hunt Cup and only Hunting Boy in the, Ladies' Bracelet. _In both events she was I ridden by her owner (Mr. G. H. James), Akbar, who is .engaged in' the Mana-. watu Hunt Cup tombirow, is an aged Manchinccl jumper^ who showed some pro-1 mise a couple of 'seasons ago, when he' ran second to Mandate in the Dannevirke Steeples, and second to Postman in the Dannevirke Hunt Cup. Ho did "not race last season, nor has he yet made an appearance this season. The Night-Kaid-^Miss Hook gelding-jn the Kangiotu Plate .at the Manawatu Hunt Club's Meeting tomorrow has becu, named Nightrunneiv He is owned by Mr. "L. H. Colli&on, who bought him fqr 100 guineas at last year's sales at Trentham. i At weight-for-age in the Melbourne Cup Peter Pan would, have had 9.0 arid Silver Scorn 8.9. /!heir handicaps are 0.7 and 9.3 respectively, so that the filly comes oft at lib the worst of it. Fast Passage, whom Silver Scorn easily beat at weight-for-age in the Canterbury Cup (1% miles) last November, has been rated at 21b above weight-for-age in the Melbourne Cup, so that she is now in concession of 61b by that scale from the "flying filly." According to report from Awapuni, Inflation has been put into work again after a period of road work. It was intended to give the colt a spell, but he is so ptayful that it was considered inadvisable to turn him out in the paddock. He looks aa though it will take very little sprinting to bring him up to racing pitch. In an entry of 53 for the Winter Cup, Biccarton stables have provided 22 horses. Cutts brother1? can claim a very strong team. It is headed by last year's winner, Fast Pas-sage, the others being Cricket Bat, Drum Fire, Zeebrugge, and Kebel Song. According to southern reports, Admiral Drake has become sound again, and he was to go into P. T. Hogan's stable at Washdyke to be prepared for spring racing. The same source states that Jaloux is moving along in useful work at Riccarton, and he may be reproduced in some of the e\ents at the Grand National Meeting.