TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 3, 4 January 1936, Page 20

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Nominations for. the Wellington.Racing Club's Summer Meeting are due at 8 o'clock on Monday evening.

Nominations for the Ashhurst-Pohan-fiina Racing Club's Annual Meeting are due at it o'clock on Monday evening-

The Messrs. Smith brothers have transferred their four horses, Wotan, Le Grand, Debut, and Colenso, to J. Fryer's charge at Hawera. It was Fryer who originally prepared Peter Jackson and Game Carrington for the partnership.

Boomerang was showing the effects. of his recent fairly hard racing on the final day at Wairarapa, and his connections were doubtful if he would perform as well as he had been doing. He will now have a brief respite, after which he will' probably be seen out over longer distances.

Southdown did not make the expected recovery from the lameness that affected him after a gallop before the holiday meetings commenced and his trip to the Waikouaiti and Oamaru Meetings was cancelled.

The Iliad filly Yaringa, after winning the West Australian Derby last Saturday, was produced in the Perth Cup on Wednesday, and in finishing third, in the field of eighteen she was by no means disgraced. She carried 7 8 and was beaten by two older horses on the 7.0 mark.

The appeal by A. E. Ellis to the Dunedin district committee, held on Tuesday evening, was dismissed, and Ellis will have to complete a month's suspension, which will not expire until the week after the Wellington Cup Meeting.

The two-year-old filly Winbyie, who won the W.A.T.C. Sapling Stakes •at Perth on Thursday, is a half-sister by Night Raid to Wakatipu, who was champion two-year-old in South Africa in the 1932-33 season. She was also successful in the Nursery Handicap at the W.A.T.C. Meeting. early in December.

In scoring a double at Waikouaiti on New Year's Day, Cheap Money gave A. Holmes his first successes since he took out a trainer's licence a few weeks back.

The Riccarton horseman M. Kirwan had a very successful innings during the holidays. ■ At the Westland Meeting he rode ■ eleven winners, and he added three more victories at Waikouaiti and two more at Oamaru, making his "bag" sixteen in all.

Trek, who put up a stubborn fight in the Waitaki Champion Hack Handicap at Oamaru on Thursday; is a halfsister by Solferino to Nightmarch. She has never shown anything approaching her relative's ability, and as she is now eight years of age it is not likely that she will ever make really good.

W. J. Broughton, who broke a leg at the Grand National Meeting last August, attended some of the holiday racing in his district and renewed acquaintances. He has had a lot of trouble with his leg and. is still on crutches, but he says he has hopes of being right again in' about a month's time.

Panto's weight (9.4) was apparently too solid for him if he started in the Perth Cup last Wednesday. The last horse to win the two-mile contest under top weight was Artesian, in recording his second successive victory with 9.7 in 1913. The last three years prior to this year Second Wind had had pride of place, and.his placings respectively were tenth, seventh, and fourth. ■

With the victory of Soho in the January Handicap at Hastings on Thursday, the Hurry On stallion Defoe was' enabled to claim successes with all six of his progeny who have raced to date. On the same day the two-year-old Golden Blonde recorded her third win to date at Ellerslie, and on New Year's Day Peggy Defoe registered a further win in the distance hack event at Hastings. More of this sire's stock will be appearing in future seasons, for he has been well patronised since he came soutji from the Gisborne district, where he had the misfortune to be at the same stud as Hunting Song, whose stock rose high at about the time Defoe, was on his way out to the Dominion.