TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 22

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Racing next week at Wanganui on Wednesday, at Dunedin on "Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, and at Auckland and Napier Park on Wednesday and Saturday.

The Wanganui Connolly Handicap last year was won by a three-year-old, Alchemic. Horses of the age engaged on Wednesday are Mandamus and Captain Furst. Sunny Blonde, who has been a shade disappointing lately, will not be racing again till the spring. The two-year-old .nine Ata, a daughter of Iliad and the imported mare Bonny Dawn, and thus a full-sister to Hine Ra, has. rejoined T. R. George's team this week. The Trentham , trainer R. W. A. Lewis, who has been in the north for some time past with Billy Boy and Shy, will be returning immediately after the Great Northern Meeting.

The Kurow racecourse covers an area of 79 acres, and in the club's annual report is valued at £869. The buildings and improvements are marked down at £421 4s.

A Calcutta racebook to hand shows that a daily double mid treble, as well as a straight-out win, are at the service of investors. In Calcutta they pay any dividend at any window. Weights for the Melbourne Cup and Cantala Stakes will be published on June 28, a week later than the date originally fixed. Nine thoroughbred yearlings and a two-year-old named Gondolier were shipped from Melbourne on May 22 to the South African trainer, D. McKay, who intends to use the fillies for breeding. The consignment was valued at £8000.

For the Brown Ribbon of Germany, a race worth £8000 to the winner, to be run" at Munich on August 1, the Asa Khan entered eight horses. There were 13 French entries, five Italian, and one each from Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

One of the best colts racing in South Africa is the English-bred Scout, by Schiavoni from Gladly. He was placed in four of his five races before leaving England- and he won three times in Africa before annexing the Autumn Handicap, £1500, at Johannesburg in April. The changing of the contracted word soys. to £ whenever it appears in the Rules of Racing is proposed in a remit to come before the Racing Conference next month. At present both modes of indication are used in the rules, but soys. is now as out of date as the dodo, or at least as rare.

The Auckland Racing Club received entries this week for spring events in Victoria, and Flood Tide, Horowhenua, and Tooley Street were nominated for all the big handicaps. Flood Tide may be remaining in Victoria longer than the. other pair if he makes the trip, as he is also in the Williamstown Cup, a fortnight after the Melbourne Cup. Free Air has also been entered for the Australian Hurdles and Steeples in August.