TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Issue 30, 4 August 1936, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Acceptances for the first "day of the Grand National Meeting are due on /Thursday.. ■ • Nominations for the Taranaki and Egmont-Wanganui Hunt Club's Annual Meeting, to be held at Ne\y Plymouth on August 27 and 29, close at 9 o'clock on "Friday evening. -Knockfin, ■Who is due to make her •reappearance in the open sprint on the 'first day of the Grand National Meeting, has been working more sedately recently ,than ever previously. ' ' As a two-year-old, Pelmet came very quickly to hand last season, and her nomination for the Paparua Handicap on the first day at Riccarton next month is therefore of more than ordinary interest. She would nevertheless have to be good to concede weight to the majority of her opponents.

The Te Awamutu trainer-rider, J. H. Mcßae, who was- injured at the .Wellington Racing -. Club's Winter Meeting, is making good progress, 1 and is now able to supervise the, management of his team. D. O'Connor has added to his team the four-year-old gelding Nightbound, by Night Raid fronr En Parole, a sister to Bobrikoff.' • He was bred by his owner, Mr. H. Elworthy, and no, doubt will later be tried as a 'jumper. E. Peck, the-Perth jockey who has been retained by Mr. G. M. Currie to ride for his stable, can go to scale at 7st 101b. Another lad, who is 6st 21b, has also been engaged for W. P.ayner's stable. Both lads had some experience under G. Price at Randwick: The Yaldhurst trainer -M. B. Edwards has taken in. hand a fine-look-ing -rising two-year-old colt by. Cockpit from Sapient, the property of the Hon. G.R. Hunter and the Hon. P. C. Webb. Sapient was by Kilbroney from the imported mare Merit, and she was a useful mare herself on the race track, despite a peculiar action. Queen-of .Song has previously won first up after a spell, as she did at the last New Zealand Cup Meeting, so she cannot be ruled out of the Winter Cup in spite of missing a preparatory race last Saturday.When Black Man was-ridden in an amateur riders' race -at Marton over eighteen months ago by the Duke of Gloucester he carried 13.2, 301b above the minimum. With 11.1, 81b above the minimum, he appears to have a good chance in the Duke of Gloucester Cup' at' Riccarton, despite the i much better quality of next week's i field.

According to a southern report, Galleon has returned to duty in F. W. Ellis's Invercargili stable, • accompanied by a full-sister and a halfsister, both, by Nightmarch. The dam of these three is Fair Rose, who is not in the Stud Book.

For a horse who ran second in the Waikato Hunt Cup under 11.0, conceding 201b to his victor, Capclla Abbey, in his last appearance at a totalisator meeting, Flower Bag does not look badly treated with 9.8 in the Enfield Steeples on the first day of the C.J.C. Grand Natipnal Meeting. Most of the amateurs who have been riding over jumps at South Canterbury meetings lately are keen to secure mounts' in the Gloucester Cup race. That North Island amateurs are interested is evidenced by the fact that they are seeking rides on South Island horses. The president of the Oamaru Jockey Club is;anxious to ride, and the president of the South Canterbury Hunt may be one of the Washdyke entrants for the race.