TURF NEWS IN BRIEF
*&£ 1- «=• -es on Saturday leaves Wellington at .7.50
aJOver the quarter-mile further in^the C F Vallance Memorial Handicap at Masterton on Saturday, fresh horses to run will probably include Siegmuncl, Lady Montana, The Ring, Pearl of Asia, and possibly Little Robin. Mansura, who was not produced by the Dulieu stable at Otaki, is due to run in the Trial Stakes at Stratford on Saturday, in which the stable will also be represented by Moymell, who ran ■ second recently, at the Combined Hunts Meeting. • •■ , , . . Density and Not Out will be having their first race this season at Washdyke on Saturday. Density won the open sprint on the course in April, cantering home under 9.2, and that was ■ her last outing. She is in with 9.1 on Saturday- . • , ■ Cheval de Volee, who carried the -luxurious impost of 7.12, led for over a mile in the Mitchelson Cup on Saturday. If he can stay down in the weights he might win his third Auckland Cup in succession at Christmas. .His two wins have been under 7.0 and ' 7.9 respectively. ..; Queen of Song, after being off the scene since contesting the Dunedin Cup -'last February, is due to reappear in ~-the Teschemaker Handicap at Washdyke on Saturday, and she has nothing -to complain about the 8.3 she has been given, which is 31b less even than she had m the Dunedin Cup. Her single — win >vst seascii, at Ashburton, was under 9.0. Nig Lit Dress, winner of the Geraldine Cup vecently and engaged in the Teschemaker Handicap at Washdyke cm. Saturday, is now owned by Mr. W. ""Parsons and is a member of S. Barr's stable. He was • first owned by the -late Sir Charles Clifford, and then he did useful service for Messrs. A. S. *" lElworthy and D. Gould, though his wins did not always come when , .^expected. . Ra Houhou, who is engaged in the maiden event at Stratford on Satur-~-'<iay, is a. four-year-old half-brother by ■ -Ttesinous to that useful performer Tai--■"^oTru. He is owned by his breeder, " Mr. P. Tito. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 94, 17 October 1940, Page 15
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