TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 363, 18 February 1937, Page 7

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Round the Racing Realm. With “Top-weight.” Betting at Woodvill? and Tolaga Bay this week will be under the tingle pool, and at \V 11:011 and Wa. ■ kato it will be under win-and-place. | The Trentham-t rained Shy will ! have his first race on his pr. sent trip north at Te Rapa on Saturday, and, ! after bis second to Martara at Tren- ; tham last month, ho is sure to bo in i demaud for the Storey Memorial ‘ Handicap, over the some distance. -X- -X i Sine? appearing an unlucky hoTse ! not to have beaten Taitoru on the 1 first day at Wanganui recently, International has been costly to many obI servers of form; but the big chestnut i v ’.H come into hit own v t. * -x- . Three consecutive w.’ns in handi cap class is usually more than is to be expected from any horse; but Three times this feat was performed ov; r the recent Taranaki and Egmont Meetings. The three horses to score I trebles wer. Sansfoy, Friesland, and j Great Hope. j The hurdler Streamline injured : himself in a paddock recently. He ; was. to have rejoined T. H. Gillett’s ! term at Riccartoo, but will not now i be brought in again until later on. * -X- \ * I Friesland’s recent good fohm indij cat-s rather clearly that he is now | right back to his best, and is probably ! better than ever. Just under twelve • months ago he v.'as unlucky not to j win the Thompson Handicap at Trenj tham—the only horse to beat him 1 was Silver Ring, then at his peak. ! The Thompson will undoubtedly be j his next mission. ' * * -xI Aurie’s Star. Adelaide-owned win- | ner of the V.A.T.C. Oakleigh Plate I last Saturday, gave clear evidence of > his great brilliance the previous. Sat j urday by spreadengling a hot field of ' fifteen in the Marine Handicap, six i furlongs, at Williamstown. Twelve • months earlier Belle Silhouette won ! the Marine prior to scoring in the ! Oakleigh. k * * j A tv.b-year-old sister to Knockfin j has been put in work by 11. Nurse at . Riccarton. Like Knockfln, sb? has a j nervous temperament, and this family ! trait is shown also in Rearm, a four--1 year-old mare by Rapier from Bella , Donna, the grandam of the other two. : Re-arm is being trained by W. Me : Donald. She is small and will not be raced for several months. * * Accarding to a Riccarton report. I Arctic star has resumed training after ' a spell, looking in good health, but he ' will not be ready to run until about I May. He may start off with hurd'e ' races, but it is probable that hg v/Tl j he got ready for steeplechases later : on. Grey Boy is. another that has i joined the stable lately. He has had I a little experience as a hurdler, but ' his prospects will depend on how I much Improvement he can show. ! While Wild Chase gave Sir Charles ■ Cl’fford his first su.-cess in the Dune ; din Cup last week, the late Sir Georee . Clifford won the race with Royal I Slag, sixteen yars ago. An int.ere-t--i ing feature about those performances 1 is that the two horses are closely related. Wild Hind, the dam of Will ■ Chas°. is Autumnus from Kirriemuir, ■ by Clanranald from Madewla.