TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1939, Page 13

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Gay Chou and Lady Montana form a bracket in the Open Handicap at the Manawatu Hunt Meeting tomorrow. ■"'• Final payments for the; Grand Nationals are not due till next ThurS'day. ' •■" ■■ . :. ; i .-■■-.. ' ..•■••■ '..'./ ;:;..,' Old Surrey has' won two races over a mile and a quarter on the Awapuni course this season, but he can also go a good seven furlotigs, the distance of the Open Handicap at Awapuni .tomorrow. The .Manawatu Hunt. Club is to be congratulated on the care it has taken with the race card for tomorrow's meeting. It is interesting to note that the actual age of all horses is .given, instead of terming those over six years simply aged. Four horses share the distinction of being senior candidate in tomorrow's Manawatu Hunt Cup Steeples. They are Petrarch, Royal Toast, Royal King, and Gaswyn, all .eleven years of age. Dungarvan, Lord Cavendish, and Lustral were to have been shipped south last night, but on the advice of the Union Company regarding, the weather outside the trip was postponed. They will go tonight if conditions improve. ' Mr: H. B. Gibson has sold Notium to Mr. J. F. Kiley* who successfully raced One Whetu, International, and Te Huia. Te Huia, whom he bought last January, met with an untimely end on the eve of the Egmont Winter Meeting. ; : v The annual report of the Waverley Racing Club states that the operations for last year showed a very satisfactory position. A good profit enabled the indebtedness to the-bank;'of. £876-to! be liquidated, there being now a credit of £319. The number of nominations not being in excess of the requirements, the following officers of the Foxton Racing Club have been re-elected:—President, Mr. W. E. Barber; vice-presidents, Messrs. S. R. Austin, M. B. Bergm, R. Bryant, and D. R. Ogilvy: stewards, Messrs. L. C. Bryant, P. A. Lingard, and R. Robinson.

Moonlight Bay, who ran quite a fair race in the gentleman riders' event at Marton last Saturday and is engaged in a similar event at Awapuni tomorrow, is a six-year-old Humbug mare out of a past winner of the Manawatu Hunt Cup, the Advance—Refine mare Adrienne.

Fauvette, one of the two-year-olds in tomorrow's Maiden Race at Awapuni, is a Defoe—Switch On filly who gave promise when in training at Trentham early in the season. She is now prepared at Awapuni and in the only race she has had to date she failed to make a showing. '. ■ ■ \ Modern Way, engaged in the Maiden Race at Awapuni tomorrow, Carries the same colours as Hunting Cry and Sporting Blood did. She is a three-year-old filly by Lord Quex out oi Either Way, a full-sister to Pink Coat, and as she finished close up in the maiden event at Hastings a fortnight ago she might be one to trouble the better form tomorrow. Amy as Leigh, who had his first race at Marton last week, is a three-year-old half-brother by Lord Quex to Play On, and he is owned by Mrs. E. L. Barnes, sister-in-law to Catalogue's owner, whose colours Mrs. Barnes has reversed for her jacket, taking gold and cerise spots. Amyas Leigh is due to have his second race at Awapuni tomorrow. The stablemates Adsum and Tupeotu were schooled over the big fences on the flat at Ellerslie early in the week, and gave an excellent display of jumping. Both are well forward and will make their next appearance at the Pakuranga Hunt Meeting. Tupeotu has had only a limited experience as a jumper, but his third in the Hu it CUp at Ellerslie last month was a very satisfactory effort. • . The Fbrdell trainer D. Marks is very hopeful that Smoke Screen will come into his own this spring. Smoke Screen will be a five-year-old m the coming session and that should be his best year. Already, as the first New Zealander to break lmin 36sec, he has proved himself a great htirse up to a mile, but minor accidents have restricted his racing. However, he has come up particularly well from his holiday, and it is probable he will race at Wanganui in September. „ . Second Innings, who is engaged in the Brabazon Handicap at the Christchurch Hunt Meeting tomorrow, will not be seen out during the Grand National Meeting, v His acceptance for the Winter Cup and nominations for other events at the meeting miscarried in transit and were received too late. i