TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 134, 3 December 1938, Page 22

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Racing next week at Hororata on Saturday and at Woodville on Saturday and the following Monday. The'Gisborne filly Blonde Princess did not return home after scoring at the Auckland. Meeting, as it is intended to race her at the summer carnival. A. Mclntosh, who trains her, has SlyFox under orders for the Auckland Dudley Royal and Settlement have been recommissioned by F. D. Jones at Riccarton, and southern reports credit them with being in splendid order to resume a preparation. Prudent Prince, in the same stable, is to be entered for the Dunedin Meeting at Christmas. The leading horseman to date this season is G. H. Humphries, who, up till and including last Saturday, had won 22 races. B. H. Morris. 18, and W. J. Broughton, 16, are next. The successes of the Takanini trainer F. Smith at recent meetings in the north have increased his season's wins to 14, and he now leads H. and A. Cutts on the trainers' list by three points. Indian Sun. half-brother by Bulandshar to Solarium, continues tto please his trainer, J. H. Jefferd. Another promising juvenile from the Ngatarawa stable who has not yet sported silk is Mrs. Richmond's colt Regale, by Myosotis from Lucinda.

Few horses were ever so persistent after Railway Handicap honours as was Silver Link, the brilliant daughter of Achilles, and Secret Link. As a three-year-old Silver Link ran third in 1918, the following year she was second to Tigritiya, the next year she ,was again second,.this time to Statuette, and at last in her fourth attempt in 1921 she was * the winner from Anomaly and The Hawk.