TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 122, 25 May 1937, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Great Northern acceptances are due on Friday. Wanganui first-day acceptances are not due till next Monday. One of the most unlucky horses racing during recent weeks has been The Sandwich Man. Sunny Blonde, though m splendid health, has not recently raced quite as well as her connections expected. Musketoon was well represented with winners on Saturday. Besides Saint Musk and Kena at Te Rapa, he had Rona Bay among the Carterton victors. ■'■■■■ • ■ ■ ■ -. Dorado has now run out his hack nominations and his future racing will have to be done in open class, -lne stable apprentice, P. Williams, has ridden some of his best races on him recently. ~ , Although he found the distance a little too far yet for him, Knightsbridge, a two-year-old Gainscourt colt, ran well enough to suggest that he will be a useful sort later on. He is owned by Mr. T. T. Redman, a young Masterton enthusiast, and he is being trained by L. Daly, who recently took out a licence again. ,- It has been rumoured, says a Melbourne paper, that Talking 'has no done well since his spell. Some ngni has been thrown on the statement by Mr. A Cooper's admitting that he has only come on fairly, but he refutes any suggestion that there is anything seriously wrong with the colt. Australia has opened up a- new market for bloodjtock in Japan, ana six mares, all in foal, were shipped from Sydney a fortnight ago. Tlrey are all Stud Book mares. Two were in foal to El Cacique, two to Pantheon, and one each, to Christopher Robin and Constant Son. , F Hall, owner of Rebel Chief, has purchased a four-year-old by Robespierre from Keel Row. The gelding, who is untried, is a brother to Rebel Advice has been received that the well-known Sydney trainer, G. Price, is expected in New Zealand shortly with two brood mares. He will vis it Palmerston North to secure the Beau Pere-Helen- colt The Sguirft who brought top price at the l?st National Sales, where he was acquired by Mr 1; J. Watt for 1050 guineas. *!»» rolt has been receiving his early education at the hands of Mrs. A. W. McDonald.