TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 6

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Among -visiting hoises to amve a.t Elleishe la?t Saturday were Epigiam, Lordly Knight, Curie, "VVerohia, and Melisande. Da.\olo was unable to meet his Oamaru engagements owing to a heavy cold, and| for the present he would not look a likely Easter prospect. I Green Polly, winner of the Horleyland Hurdle race at Gatwick on Tebruary 7,' was ridden by Colm Richards, a brothel , of Gordon Richards. -v I Nominations for all events ai the Masterton Racing Club's Autumn. Meeting, to be held on April 3,4, close at 9 o'clock to-1 morrow evening; The Auckland Racing Club' has decided to alter the running of events at Blleishe on, Saturday, and the Great Jfoithein Oaks will be the first race, followed by the President's Handicap and the other laces m advertised sequence. Peimission has been granted the ~Ee- | mont Racing Club to change its dates for the Wmtei Meeting from May 3 and 5 [to May 2 and 3. The alteration is to bo a^Wednesday and a Thursday in lieu I of I d .Thursday and a Satuiday The new official stand at Oamaru was in I use for the fust fame at last week's meet-1 mg "Work, on it had to be rushed to ha\e it ready m time for the meeting. According to-advice received in the Dominion the gr.ey'*Araunah, ivho was takeh, to Australia -n inning at Tientham' two_ years ago and later sold there, wasi a winner of a six-furlong highweight han-l dicap at the Moonee Valley lasti Saturday .'He earned 9 6, the same -weight as Staghorn. 1 * 1 1 I The foui-year-old Arailsio male Merry Way, who ran a first1 and a second at I I the lecent Opunake Meeting, was bought! Iby the New Plymouth trainer R Bailow! I for 75 guineas last month, so she has not taken long in leturning the best part ot' her purchase price. Palantua, the winner of the last £Te\\ Zealand Cup, has been, on the easy list for some time, but she is due to join F. Shaw's active team at Wingatui -very soon, in preparation for spring lacing. Silver Scorn's two wins m Sydney dmmg the present month—her first two since she left New Zealand—have not been at all popular affairs, though all the elements were there in the ordinary course for cheering. Success, under similar conditions, here might not have enthused the public any more than it has in Sydney. W.< H. Jones, the former North Island jockey, who has been at Washdyke for some time, v has returned to Riccarton and will 1 make Christchurch his headquarters for the^ remainder of the season

Although the smart hack Lone Raider has been allowed Ho: droß : out of the Great Easter and Great- Autumn Handicaps, there is a prospect that he will be at Riccarton, as he has been nominated for minor eveivts at -the meeting.,.-,,- - ■. According to her trainer, the crack Victorian filly. Arachne .will not race again until the A.J.C. Champagne Stakes on the third day of the Australian Jockey Club's Autumn Meeting. In that race she may clash with^Sir John*.and Myra Tip, and all three' -will carry penalties. ' ' After the'Bosehill Meeting last Saturday week, Mr. A. E. Blair, owner of Chatham, explained-that the defeat of the horse in the Rawson'Stakes did iiot mean that.he wa3 to.be scratched out,of the Doncaster Handicap. On the , contrary, Chatham.' was a sure runner, and' would be ridden by his usual pilot, J. E. Pike. The statement, disposed of-the rumour that Pike, was to ride JSilver' Scorn ,iv the Doncaster. ' ' "' '

Rocket Jaas been allowed to drop out of the Great' Autumn Handicap, and he has not been nominated for any other events at the Canterbury "Jockey Olub's Autumn Meeting. The Day Comet horse is on the easy list at'present. He has developed trouble in a-suspensory ligament, and he will require a long spell. Three-year-olds have had quite a fair measure of, success in the A-R-C. .Easter Handicap,-though it six years'b'ack to the'lasti.such, victory when In the 1 Shade scored, off the minimum in 192)3.' Other three-year-old winners of the race since it was rednced-to one mile in 1808 have been Advance (9.6 in 1900), Nohette (9.11 in 1902)', Mobility (8.7 in 1906)', Gold Crest (9.0 in 1908), Aborigine (7.13 in 1909), Antoinette ,(7.10 in 1911), Menelaus (7.9 in 1917), and Giotesque (8.1 in 1922}. The A.RC. Easter .Handicap has-been a race in which the higher weighted divi-sion-has had a marked line of successes. In tlje"^ contests since 1898 0n1y,14 horses have ttron carrying undei"'B.o.1 In the same period} nine' horses have . succeeded .with, more than" 9.01 Noriette's performance of .winning under 9.11 as a, three-year-old stands right out. As a five-yea'i-old Reremoana won with the same weight, and as a four-year-old Golden Wings carried only 21b less last year. It is mo&ti unusual, as 'this.year, for the top hoise at acceptance to have' r\indec 9.0."

Good hurdlers command high prices in England. In January the six-year-old gelding Wenceslas (Winter" King—Brisena)' was., sent ,tp auction to, dissolve-a partnership. Commencing at 500gns, Wenceslas reached, 1800gns before he was knocked down to^Mr. Graerp'e Whitelaw, who bought' him as' a yearling for 2.7gns, and sold him as & two-year-old for 42gns. Mr. Whitelaw certainly had to pay a stiff price, to become his owner again.