TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1933, Page 4

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Acceptances for the New Zealand Cup Meeting close at 8 o'clock on Monday evening. • The last time the New Zealand Cup was run before the Melbourne Cup was in 1925, when Oratrix was successful at Riccarton and Statesman at Melbourne. Fred Archer's record, which Gordon Richards now looks a good thing to beat this year, has stood practically uncl/allenged since it was established in 1885.Says "Sentinel":—"Apparently a mile is as far as Gallant Fox can- get. He has, however, been father, as a couple of mares foaled to him this season." The Mosgiel owner-trainer D. ;P. Wilson is remaining at Riccarton with Kerbside and Trivet till after the Cup Meeting. The pair were not produced on the final day at Trentham owing to the going being considered too soft for them. G. Humphries has been engaged to ride Brambletorn in the New Zealand Cup. He will also be on Hurlingham in the Stewards' Handicap and on Gipsy Love in the Oaks. Paris, who has raced unsuccessfully in j and around Melbourne, has been returned home to Invercargill by Mr. W. T. Hazlett: So far none of the other members of Mr. Hazlett's team have done much good. Normandy, who hae recently been a disappointment on the flat, is to be tried over hurdles, and, with P. Burgess up, he' schooled satisfactorily at Trentham yesterday morning twice over a couple of fences Henry of Navarre's two hurdling wins at Trentham have taken him up to 11.8 in the Spring Hurdles at Riccarton, but this may not be enough to stop him. W. J. Bowden seems to have discovered the trick of bringing out the best in him. For' some riders he will not go at all. Berate, who has been off the public .stage since she failed in a solitary start at the Dunedih Autumn Meeting, is due to make a reappearance in the Lin wood Handicap, at Rteearton next week. Twelve months ago this Silverado filly, then rated little inferior to Silver Scorn, won the three-year-old handicap on the final day at the New Zealand Cup Meeting. The Spring Hurdles on the opening day of the New Zealand Cup Meeting last year provided the first success for fiounslow, who was to take all before him at the Grand National Meeting the following August. In Revision there is a novice in this year's field who may also make a name for herself later on as' a hurdler. The Canterbury handicapper (Mr. J. E. Henrys) appeared to have taken high estimate of Southdown in setting him on top with 9.0 in the Riccarton Handicap on the opening day of the C.J.C. Meeting, but he undoubtedly has recollection of the big weights successfully carried by three-year-olds in this race in the past. Commendation's 9.9 in 1926 was a great effort, and so in a way were the performances of Cylinder, 9.3, in 1930, and Laughing Prince, 8.12, in 1927. Commendation and Cylinder both won the Derby, but Laughing Prince was beaten into third place in the classic. Of eighteen horses who have had their New Zealand Cup engagements continued, nine are from Rieearton. stables, and pne each from Washdyke, Wingatui, and Southland stables, leaving six (Inflation, Speedmint, Eminent; Brambletorn, Takakua, and Epigram) from the North Island.