TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 61, 13 March 1934, Page 4

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Racing at Treutham this week on Friday and Saturday. The. first race each day starts at 12.5 p.m. Not a single horse from the Auckland province, if the Gisborne-trained Lordly Knight be excepted, has been left in for the first day's racing, at Treutham. There is a general impression nt his raining centre that Red Manfred will be a starter in the Thompson Handicap in preference to the St. Leger. Trentham stables furnish only sixteen acceptances (with fifteen horses) out of the aggregate of 116 acceptances made for the eight events on the opening day of the Wellington Autumn Meeting this week. . : , Cadland's i dead heat at Te Aroha recently was over seven furlongs, so it may be that he is better suited now over distances longer than a pure sprint. With 8.13 he is very well weighted in Friday's Thompson, Handicap, and he will have the valuable riding services of.his trainer, L. G. Morris, who last year won the raceon Autopay. At least three horses have ac yet failed to meet the conditions of the Champion Hack Cup; that excludes hacks who are still maidens" -at -time of. starting.-' The three_; arej Grampian; Melisande, and; Te Rangitumau. All have an engagement on the opening day on Friday, bo they yet have' one^ other opportunity of fulfilling the condition. The Waikato Trotting Club has received advice from the Trotting Conference that it has been allotted, for use this season, the permit of the Taranaki Trotting' Club, which has abandoned its meeting, to have been ;beld-on April 1. ': , The Grand National Steeplechase winner, Thurina, has entered on the preliminary stage of his preparation for winter racing at Doyleston, where his partowner, W. J. Doyle, has him in hand. A similar policy was, adopted with him last year. •' ' : !-...-' .■:, ■ -..: . ■~;.■',. : Earl Porter, who is the riding sensation of 1934 in America, just as Jackie 'Westrope was last year, received a cheek in his all-conquering" career on February 3., v On ■■;■ that;,day, he incurred the displeasure of the starter ■at Hialeah Park, Miami, and as a' result was suspended for three days" for" disobedience at tlie post. Up till then, Porter had ridden forty-seven winners since the beginning of the; year. '..'.- ---1 the -Melbourne "Circle":—"That's the worst-horse to win a-race- in Melbourne for a long time," said a TaslyanianV who was' at the"Moonee Valley Meeting. He was referring to Countermarch, who took the hurdles, but previously had performed very poorly in Tasmania. When the luck is iv you can do anything, and, Mr. B. E. Martin, who races' Countermarch, also has Fir^t Money, winner of the Oakleigli Plate. Yes, you only need the luck. Throughout his career, tlie Oakleigh Plate winner First Money has been of a highly-strung temperament, and he has frequently ruined liis prospects by fretful ness before a race. G. Simpson, his h trainer, has evolved a scheme that has c lii'd a'beneficial effect on First Money, yAs soon as the gelding arrives on a ;t course on race days, Simpson feeds him t- with peppermint sweets. He discovered 1, that First Money likes the sweets, and :s they have the effect of making him conb tented while awaiting his .race, d '-. Penalties • for the Wellington Meeting )f incurred since the declaration of weights >c" are:—^Tinakori'Hack Handicap, Pladie, 51b i r to■ B.6;.Silverstream Hack Handicap, Salt p. Spray, 101b to 8.3: Pladie, olb to 8.0.