TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1933, Page 6

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Peter Jackson, winner of the Moonee Valley. Cup ;on Saturday,, lias. 8.5 'in' the Melbourne Cup next Tuesday. He finished well back with 8.11 last year. Twelve months ago Yarramba was just a shade unlucky to be beaten into second place by Peter Pan in the Melbourne Cup, that is, after the trouble Peter Pan met on the trip. Ten days earlier he had won the Moonee Valley Cup. • ... The performance of King's Knave in carving out the' seven furlongs of the Farewell Handicap at Paeroa on Saturday in lmin 25 2-ssec under 11.2 was a remarkable one. The Australasian record for the distance is Turbine's recent linin 23% sec under 8.0, *tt Raudwick, A. H. Eastwood, who piloted Coronilla to victory in the Taita Handicap at Trentham last Thursday week, will again have the mount oh the filly in the C.J.C. Welcome Stakes. ,' '' ' ."■ ' ; Jaloux's second at Motukarara. on Saturday has had the effect of bringing him into some favour for the New Zealand Cup, in which he will be ridden by C. E. Eastwood. He is a heavily topped, gelding, however, and such do not usually improve with age. -A more likely lightweight Cup prospect than Jaloux may be the Motukarara winner Ramo, who is a stayer above everything else. Kamo, now seven years old, was a disappointing horee last Sea- j son, but Easter twelve months ago he won the C.J.C. Great Autumn, which was a good staying performance. The five-year-old brood mare Madam Ruth, owned by Mr. L. S. Otway. of Cambridge, died recently after foaling a filly by "Gay Shield. A' trotting mare ie being used as foster-mother for the foal. Madam Ruth was by Lackjiam from Lady Marie, and thus was a Half-sister to the Avondale Guineas winner Gay Sheila. The well-known brood mare Equipment, who early last week produced a filly foal to Winning Hit, died at Stonyhurst on Thursday. The foal is alive and an attempt will be made to hand rear ( ( her. Equipment, who was eighteen years old, was ■ by. Martian .from . Tomorrow, by Bill of Portland, and had. .been- a- most SUe-. eessful vdam. Her progeny comprised Rivalry, Centrepiece,; Green.- ■ Clqjh, • Full '-Fepheiy Semper^-Par-atiis.-'BallrPress^.iisid1 'firij&etvfiijfe-^yJ',,; :-:-Q'^:ty '^J'^'P^ft-