TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 128, 1 June 1937, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Acceptances for the first day of the Wanganui Meeting are due at 9 o'clock this evening. Single-pool betting will operate at both Auckland and Wanganui next weekend.

Sir Nigel's backing at Foxton on Saturday was due to an excellent trial before he left Hastings. On a different track he may shortly do better. Manawatu's full-brother Silent Acre looKed particularly well at Foxton on Saturday and he may be a useful horse yet. Though given as aged in the race card he is only six years old, and he has made only a few appearances in the short twelve months since he made his Turf debut.

Royal Choice, the three-year-old half-brother by Laughing Prince to Martian Chief, Hunting Lodge, and Haeretonu, was not greatly fancied in his first race at Foxtori on Saturday, but he went a very promising race and should bear remembering. Conversion, who resumed racing at Foxton after having been off the scene for well over twelve months, is still owned by Mr. H. F. Wood, one of his breeders, and he is being trained at Porirua by D. Prosser. He was never sighted in Saturday's race. Taumau was expected to make a good hurdler, but he will have to improve greatly on his Foxton showing, when he was always well tailed off. Perhaps the slightly shifting going troubled him.

Youssipof's success at Foxton was a big improvement on his latest track work, but the betting indicated that it was by no means unexpected. This Grand Knight gelding comes to hand readily and he is in better order now than ever previously. Dr. M. G. Louisson will be represented in early two-year-old racing by two youngsters which T. Lloyd has recently broken in and had led round the roads at Riccarton. One is the Defoe—Misgovern colt bought by Dr. Louisson at the Trentham sales, and the other is by Hoylake from Royal Baby. Both are chestnuts.

Royal Banquet's name among the field for the Foxton Cup was a surprise, as he had been telegraphed as an acceptor for the Whirokino Steeples. He went a great race back on the flat, for he had had only one previous run since his resumption, and One Whetu did not beat him with anything in hand. He had done some recent schooling, but his showings had not been particularly impressive. A feature of the Wanganui Jockey Club's Meetings, apart from the racing, is the programme of music provided by two of the leading bands of the Dominion. For the Winter Meeting on Saturday and the following Wednesday, the Wanganui Garrison Band and the Queen Alexandra Mounted. Rifles Band will supply the music, the Garrison Band playing on the second da"