Taranaki Races.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 305, 26 December 1928, Page 8

Taranaki Races.

Valpre Smartest Youngster.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. The weather is dull and threatening for the first day of the Taranaki Jockey Club's, summer meeting. Results:— HUATOKI PLATE, of 135sovs. (Special Weights.) Seven furlongs. I—LLANORD 1 4—CALAMINE 2 2—ARCHIEVAL 3. Also started: Havering. Potonga, Remera, Potency, Wise Acre, Viburnum, Razor, Iclogne, Theresa Bell, Black Odin, Gasnapper, Royal Tor, Tangerim. Won by two lengths and a-half. three lengths and a-half between second and third. Time, 1.27 2-5. BOROUGH JUVENILE HANDICAP of 140sovs. Five furlongs. 7—VALPRE. 7.0 1 I—LADY QUEX, 9.5 ." " 2 S—AIRWAY, 7.5 \\. 3 Also started : Cool Mint, 8.5; Boundary Fancy Boy, 8.3; Gold Morn, 7.7; Golden Flower, 7.5 ; Monoloff, 7.0. Won by a head, a neck between second and third. Time, 1.2 2-5. RAHOTU HURDLES HANDICAP, of 100 sovs. One mile and a-half and one hundred yards. I—GLENGARIFP, 10.1 1 4 —HOROMEA. 10.10 •> 3—ABBOTS DELIGHT, 9.0 ~\ Also started: Polyphemus, 10.10; Gala Day, 9.12; Quilfire, Berinthia, 9.2; Fane, Inahman, Acre gelding, 9.0. Won by eight lengths, five lengths between second and third. Time, 2.54 25.