TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Acceptances for the first $ay of the Auckland Winter Meeting are dve1 at 5. o'clock tomorrow.

Ruaform, recovered from his fright, is to take his place in the distance hack race at Foxton on Saturday. He won on the flat on the course in the spring. ~

Tauramai has again been placed in work by A. McKay, says a Southland report. The Paladin gelding appears to have derived considerable benefit from veterinary treatment. Cherry Plum is the name that has been selected for the yearling by Beau Pere from Cherry Pie.

Irish Orders, who is to make her debut at Foxton on Saturday, is a three-year-old half-sister by Thomond to Nayalio. She' is being raced by Mr. M. D.'Gillon, of Wellington. ' A filly by Beau Pere from Wood Pulp has been named Crown Jewel. The Wanganui Cup winner of 1892 was Crown Jewel, who produced several foals when • retired to the stud, notes "Sentinel." '

Hunting Jay was' reported as retired for good when he gave one of his worst exhibitions at the start of a hurdles at Wanganui last spring. But he has returned and is an acceptor for the Steeplechase at Foxton on Saturday.

The juggling of figures without consideration of class or other circumstances leads handicappers into some strange assessments. Croyden looks decidedly badly placed with 10.5 in the steeplechase at Foxton on' Saturday: ;

Petrarch is particularly well treated with only 10.2 in the steeplechase at Foxton on Saturday. He has won the Hawke's Bay Steeples and the EgrriontWanganui Hunt Cup, besides winning last season over hurdles and on the flat. It is a mystery how his form could allow him to receive 31b from Croyden^ who has won only one small steeplechase in three seasons' racing? , Although Mr. M. O'Brien has his two horses nominated for hack events at the Wanganui Meeting, it is practically Certain that Aggravate will riot go north, says a Riccartdn ■ report. It is possible, howeyer, that Dictate will undertake the trip next week, under the care of A. McAulay. ' -

Lacking, a novice acceptor for Foxton who does not appear to have raced previously, is a three-year-old chestnut filly by Lackham from the-Chief Ruler —Gladiole mare Rule Britannia, and she will carry the well-known jacket of her breeder, Mr. H. McManaway. Gladiole was a high-class sprinter in her day in the colours of T. O'Neill, and subsequently one of her offspring, Orchid, an older half-brother to Rule Britannia; was similarly brilliant over sprint courses. Others of Gladiole's progeny were not in the same class, but the abilit" —ill probably come out again in the present generation.