AUSTRALIAN RACING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 193, 17 August 1939, Page 22

AUSTRALIAN RACING.

QUEENSLAND TURF CLUB,

SEVEN FIFTY WINS

BRISBANE, August 16.

At the Queensland Turf Club's meeting tdklay Seven Fifty won the Metropolitan Handicap easily from seven others. " Details:—

METKOI'Of.ITAN HANDICAP of £1500. One'mile anil a lialf. SEVEN* FIFTY. 1> g. 4yr«. by The Una rar<l—Stable Girl (Mr. W. A. Tucker), I».O—M. McCartcn 1 SKrLPTOM. br g, aged, by Hlgfli Art— I.ileacre .(Mr. \V. Slicaio, 8.1)—S:-lwo!id '2 TItAOOI'AN. I> u, .*,yr«. by Tlie Buzzard — Hlsrli Cover (Messrs. •!. •». M< - - UoUKail and \V. Kfnt), S.V—W. Bristue 3 Klsht started. Four lengths; head. Time JSJ. ASCOT MEETING. WIDDEX TAKES TRIAL STAKES. SYt)XEY, August 18. No .visiting New Zealand horses were engaged at the Ascot races to-day. Housemaster, who is a consistent place-getter, finished second in the first division of the Ascot Handicap, which was won by Lithgow. Young Carrington was third in the .Jumpers' Flat race. Widden (Veilmond—Quaver) won the Three-Year-old -Trial Stakes. Montague (Wallace Isinglass—Sleepless) won the Progressive Handicap. W.Z. TKAIHER'I SUCCESSES. MELBOtJRNE, August 16. At the Ascot (Victoria) races to-day, the first division of the Yarborough Handicap,, for three-year-olds, was won by J. Fryer's Hanurere by five lengths. The second division was' won by A. D. Webster's Glaciate (Wheriko —Sleet) by three-quarters of a length.