FRANKLIN RACING CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1937, Page 20

FRANKLIN RACING CLUB.

THE MARCH MEETING. The programme offered by the Franklin Racing Club for the meeting to be held at Pukekohe on March G will be found published elsewhere in this issue. Over the ei"ht events the club is distributing £1500, the Franklin Cup of £400, run over a mile and a quarter, being the principal event. The open sprint, the Pukekohe Handicap, carries £200, and the remaining events from £130 to £160. An interesting event is the 'Tuakau Stakes, five furlongs, for two and three-year-olds that have not won a flat race of the value of £100 to the winner, or flat races of the collective value of £200 at time of starting. The race is governed by special weights. Xominations for all events close with Blomfield and Company, Auckland, at 5 p.m on Friday. February 10. or with the secretary. Mr.' W. J. Short, Pukekohe, at G p.m. the same day.

LIKELY TO DO BETTER. To date Rebel Song is perhaps the besi horse Robespierre sired (according tc southern reports), but there is every prospect that Rebel Lad, a five-year-old geldine from the Gay Lad mare Keel Row, will eclipse that good galloper's record He raced well to win at Duncdin and Waikouniti, ami his success in the mile Thorndon Handicap on the final dav of th< recent 1 rentham meeting, when he defeated Concertpitch easily by a lengtl n 1.39, stamped him as a good "allonei likely to show further impr. "meat.