MARLBOROUGH FINALE.
AUTUMN MEETING AT
TRENTHAM.
VEXATIOUS HOME IN HUKDUS.
BORSALEXE TAKES MILE HACK.
(By Telegraph—Special to "Star.**)
TRENTHAM, this day.
The Marlborough Racing Club's autumn meeting, which opened at Trent ham on Saturday, is being concluded in fine weather on an excellent track. There i 8 a fair attendance.
As the arrangement to race across the Strait was made to give the South Island club a lift along, it is pleasing to note that Saturday's totalisator figures alone were a hundred per cent greater than the two day's return for 1927, when the meeting was held at Waterlea. Detailed results:— SECOND HURDLES of lSOsovs. One mile and a-h&lf. 2—VEXATIOUS. 10.6 1 I—POLYPHEMUS.1 —POLYPHEMUS. 10.5 2 4—LADY PASSENGER, 10.4 3 Also started : Panorama, 10.13; Modern, 10.1. Won by two lengths, a length and aquarter between second and third. Time. 2.49. TRIAL HANDICAP of ISOsots. Six furlongs. 3—SECOND THOUGHT. 7.5 1 I—INFLAME, 8.3 2 2—FREEZE OUT, 8.9 3 Also started : Vindication, 7.13; Tatrlna, 7.12; Atholspear, Fair One, Black Eyed Sue, Imarosebnd, 7.5. Won by a head, three lengths between second and third. Time, 1.14 1-5. RIVERLANDS HACK off 140 SOTS. One mile. I—BORf1 —BORf \LENE, 9.5 1 2—hOLuS BOLUS, 9.5 2 3—KINDLE. 8.5 3 The only starters. Won by half a length, six lengths between FLAXBOURNE HANDICAP of 250 sots. One mile.
I—OKATRIX, 8.9 1 3—BEAUMONT, 7.13 2 2—VESPEBUB, &8 «
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1928, Page 9
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