TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 25

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

The New Zealand Cup Meeting -will open at lliccarton next Saturday, when the New Zealand Cup, Stewards', and Welcome Stakes will be the main events decided. The only other meeting in the Dominion next week will be the' Auckland Racing Club's Spring Meeting, which also opens on Saturday and concludes on the following Monday. The likely presence of Inflation in the New Zealand Cup field nest week again raises the question whether Paper Moneys will stay two miles.. At least three of this sire's progeny (Overdrawn, Pink Note, and Money Mine) have started in the Cup previously, and Overdrawn ran a good third in his year. Two New Zealand Cup candidates who have made a big descent in the weights are Jaloux and Ramo, who would need only to recover a fraction of their past form to be tough propositions next Saturday off the minimum. Jaloux has finished fourth the last two years, carrying 7.12 last year. Eamo, weighted 7.11 last year, has not yet run in tbo race. Tho New Zealand Oaks Stakes is not usually a hard race to pick, but it ■will be tough ' this year because the quality of the field is so poor. Not one of the candidates has yet shown staying ability, but Sweet Agnes, Trivet, and High Rank have fair breeding to recommend them. Autopay, who returned from Sydney this week, will in future remain under the charge of C. Willis, who trained him in Australia on his last two trips. Autopay's full-sister Maypay will also go into Willis's care. The race won'by Counterplay at Menangle (Sydney) last week was the Three-years-old Boomerang Five, worth £33 to the winner, and run over five furlongs. Counterplay, who was topweight with 9.8, wbb second favourite, but at a fairly short price, and won by a neck in liriin lsec. The committee of the Waipa Racing Club has drafted a programme for the annual meeting on December 16, providing for £800 in stakes, compared with £720 last yeiir. The Kihikihi Handicap has been altered to hack conditions, and the distance reduced to six furlongs, and the Hack Cup distance has been increased to seven furlongs, ;