TAXPAYER WINS BIG RACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 129, 3 June 1935, Page 12

TAXPAYER WINS BIG RACE.

"WAR BTTOY TAKES ADVANCE. PRONTO BINGEN AT LONG ODDS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday. The Canterbury Park Trotting Club's winter meeting was opened at Addington to-day. The weather was good and the attendance average. The track was rather heavy at first, hut it improved. Totalisator investments amounted to £12,098, compared with £8893 on the corresponding day last year. Guy o' Mine (Progressive) and Wise Guy (Telegraph) won the first two events. Later results: — PAPARUA HANDICAP of £350. Two miles. Limit 4.30. I—TAXPAYER. 12yds—Gallagher . . 1 3—MOUNTAIN DELL, 72yds — M. Holmes 2 2—CRAGANOUR, 12yds — S. A. Edwards 3 Also starte.d: 8 Cloudy Range, 5 Roy Spec, limit; 4 Master Roy, 7 Kaydtis, !.► Trampfast, 12yds; 3 Wrecker (bracketed with Mountain Dell), 9 Avernus, 10 Vesuvius, 24yds; 0 Gold Tinge, 30yds. Length ; neck. Times : 4.41 2-5, 4.30 2-5 4.41 4-5. PIONEER HANDICAP of £160. One mile and a quarter. Limit 2.52. 3—LLEWELLYN'S PRIDE, 12yds— McKcndry 1 2—ROCKS AHEAD, limit—E. Todd 2 4—NOBLEMAN, 12yds—Stewart ... 3 Also started: G Compass, 1 Directum, limit, and Graham Direct, 12yds (bracketed); 5 Grace McElwyn, 8 Guymond, 10 Lord Wrack, 9 Nelson Pointer, 11 Paul Drusus, limit; 12 Holly Bank, 7 Marie Celeste, 12yds. Half: three. Times: 2.51, 2.'52 1-5, 2.52 .2-5. ADVANCE HANDICAP of £200. One mile und a quarter. Limit 2.45. I—WAR BUOY, limit—S. A. Edwards 1 S—SUNNY MORN, 12yds — O. E. Hooper 2 10—COLONIAL BOY, limit—M. Holmes 3 Also started: 11 Logan's Pride, 9 Somerby, 3 Wild Guy, limit; 12 Arikitoa. 12yds; 2 Tempest, 8 Blue Mountain, 7 Gold Tinge, 24yds; 0 Great Logan, 4 Silver do Oro, 30yds. Two lengths; neck. . Times : 2.49, 2.49 2-5, 2.49 3-5. ELEVATION HANDICAP "of £160. Two miles. Limit 4.41. I—SEA GIFT, 72yds—E. J. Smith . . 1 3—EXPLOSION, 00yds—R. D. Keunerley 2 2—TEVIOT DOWNS, 24yds 3 Also started: S Belle Lorimer, 7 Fairyland, limit; 6 Stand By, 24yds; 4 Garner. 5 Great Wuy, 60yds. Length; two. Times: 4.40 2-5, 4.41 3-5, 4.44 4-5. HAREWOOD HANDICAP of £150. One mile and a half. Limit 3.28. I—GRAHAM DIRECT, 12yds — F. G. Holmes 1 3—ROCKS AHEAD, limit —Todd 2 I—RECESS, 12yds—J. Bryce, jun. . 3 Also started: 1 Directum (bracketed with Recess and Graham Direct), 2 Gamble, 7 Guymond, 8 Paul Drusus, limit; 5 Betty Wrack, 4 Chechahco, 6 Marie Celeste, 12yds. Three lengths; four. Times: 3.24, 3.25 4-5, 3.25 4-5. AU REVOIR HANDICAP of £150 (saddle,. One mile. Limit 2.15. 10—PRONTO BINGEN, limit-Watts . 1 2—JIMMY DE ORO, limit—M. Holmes 2 9 —TANGATU, limit—J. Bryce, jun." 3 Also started.: 7 Accras, 15 Audrey Dillon, 5 Aristotle, 2 Great Thought (bracketed with Jimmy de Oro), 1 Iraq, 13 Margaret Bell, 8 Priceless, 11 Princess Then, 4 Heal Burton, 12 Sonoma, 13 Worthy King, limit; 14 Dusolina, 15 Fernbrook Lass, 12yds. ' Three lengths; head. Times: 2.13 4-5, 2.14 3-5, 2.14 4-5.