FORM AT WAIKATO

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 118, 21 May 1938, Page 10

FORM AT WAIKATO

GREAT NORTHERN HORSES. SILK SOX FIRST HOME IN HURDLES. AWAPUNI — SOUTH CANTERBURY RACING. A number of horses who are engaged at the Auckland Racing Club's big jumping meeting at Ellerslie next month competed at the opening of the Waikato Racing Club s winter meeting at Te Rapa to-day. In winning the hurdles, Silk Sox drew attention to his chances in Auckland, where he is engaged in the Great Northern Hurdles. The horses that filled the places, Ladv England and High Star, are also engaged in this race, as is Iddo, which ran moderately. London beat two better-fancied horses, Lucidus and Kinkle, in the Hack Steeplechase. He is not in the Great Northern, but the other pair are. Enge and Valamito were the favourites in the big flat race, the latter winning comfortably, with Malagigi in third place. Huskie outstayed the opposition in the Te Rapa Steeples, in which Clarion Call came to grief in the last round. Lone Raider was made favourite for the Flaxbourne Hurdles at the Maneiwatu Racing Club's meeting, but he just scrambled home by a head from Aurora's Love, who was next fancied by the betting public. Courtyard, carrying top-weight, scored his second success at the South Canterbury Club's winter meeting when he won the Pukaki Hurdles on the bit from The Surgeon, who also followed him home on Thursday.