Turf News In Brief.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 345, 28 January 1937, Page 7

Turf News In Brief.

Racing at Wanganui to-day and Saturday, and at Takapuna on Friday and Saturday. * * * Betting at Wanganui'will Jae under the single-pool system. • * * * It is understood that the Wanganui Jockey Club is seeking a change of Its winter dates from what would have been the King's Birthday dates. * * * The. final event, the Kelburn Handicap, saw the only five-figure pool at Trentham on Saturday. The betting between win and place was remarkably even on this race, with the final score £11,458 win and £11,432 place. * * * According to a Wanganui report, Mrs S. L. Parsons has purchased, the yearling full-brother to Whittingham, a good performer in Australia. This colt is not likely to race until he is three years old.

Mr M. Miller, the owner of Greenwich, who purchased the dam. Summer Time,, at the Westmere dispersal sale, has resold her to Mr C. A. Haig, of Adelaide. * * * Convivial, who r.aced at Wellington in highweight events, was to have gone home- and run at' the C.J.C. summer meeting, but her entry was missed, and her owner has decided to send her up to the Taranaki and Egmont meetings this month. * * * The purchaser of the Limondi mare Prestige at the Westwere sale was Mr Frank Ormond, owner of the Karamu Stud, Hastings, and she will be mated with the Blandford horse Bulandshar. It was stated at the sale, and published, that the purchaser was Mr J. D. Ormond. * * * "Spiral, who has now contested four Wellington Cups, is to take Pombal’s place at the Koatanui-Stud after this season’s racing. * -x- * Card Player, a two-year-old filly by Paper Money from Shuffle, therefore a sister to Paper Slipper, has been sold by Sir harles Clifford to a West Coast owner, and she was railed to Greymouth recent!;’. Card Player ran second to Guinea Fowl in her first start, the John Grigg’Stakes at Ashburton in September, and a few weeks later, at the Dunedin meeting, she won the McLean Stakes. After that she had two starts at Trentham and two at Riccarton in the spring without being placed.