TURF NEWS IN BRIEF
Racing next week at Whangarei on Friday and Saturday, at Waimate on Saturday, and at Nelson on Saturday and the following Monday. Acceptances for the first day of the Nelson Jockey Club's Annual Meeting are due at 8 o'clock on Tuesday evening.
Custos finished last in his first race in Tasmania. The distance < was five furlongs, and Custos looked, burly in condition. *
The Otautau Meeting, abandoned earlier on account of bad tracks, is now to be held at Otautau on Saturday week. ; ■ ■ . .
-Permission has been granted the Birchwood Hunt Club, which had to abandon its recent meeting on account of weather, to hold'the fixture at Invercargill on May 15. ■.;.■.
Lady Madge, the winner of the £3000 Great Eastern Steeplechase, run at Onkaparinga (South Australia) on Easter Monday, started one of the rank outsiders of the field.
One of the sensations of the Onkaparinga Meeting on Easter Monday was the doubles dividend, which constituted a record for the State. Only one ticket .was issued on the winning combination, the dividend being £1699 5s 6d for ss. .■■.■:
The Polazel gelding Cottingham has been taken in hand again by H. Nurse, says a Riccarton report. He looks well after a spell and it may not take long to have him ready for' a race.
The unlucky Manetho has again' run into trouble. He showed slight signs of lameness after his Easter racing,'; and he is doing only light exercise :;af"-.present,', says a Riccarton re- ■ portr ::■■■■. .■•■■■■•■ V : ' f ■■. According to advice from Hawera, Notium.is not pleasing his trainer, J. Brown, #t present, and it is therefore unlikelyt that .he will be racing at the early winter, meetings.1 ■ ..The National Hunt Meeting, which was to have been held at Cheltenham early in March, had to, be postponed till the following, week owing to the bad state of the course. At. latest advice it was still expected that Golden Miller, Kellsbro" Jack, and Reynoldstown, would be meeting their Gold Cup engagements:
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue CXXIII, 10 April 1937, Page 22
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