FIVE ON END.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 305, 27 December 1939, Page 12

FIVE ON END.

DARK ELEGANCE AGAIN.

RIVAL, HIT WINS. RACING AT RAXDWICK. SYDNEY, December 26. The brilliant Dark Elegance, who is regarded as &ae of the best fillies of recent years, scored her fifth successive victory when she won the December Stakes on the second day of the Australian Jockey Club's summer meeting at Randwick to-day. The Summer Cup was won by the lightweight, Bringa, who narrowly defeated his stabletnate, Santa. The A.J.C. Handicap was won by the New Zealand-bred gelding Rival Hit. Results: —

Summer Cup of £1500. one mile mid five furlongs.—Briuga, 0.10 (J. Thompson 1, 1 :

i'.anta, 7.4 (A. It. Knox), 2: Own Folk. 8.0 (W. Cook I. 3. Eleven started, including Mulagigi, who was interfered wiih, j'.ud did veil to fiufch fourth. Neck ; herivl. Time, 2.401. /

A.J.C. Handicap of £500, nine furlongs.—Rival Hit. 8.9 (.f. Coutts), 1; Brteze. 8.2 (W. Hkkey), 2; Bel OiseJu, 5.4 (H. Hughes), 3. Fourteen started, including Linklet. Two lengths ; half a head. Time,

l>ecember Stakes of £1500. two-vear-old>> five furlongs.—Dark Elegance. 5.3 (K. MeMe::am:in). l : Kylstone, 8.0 (1). Muuroi. 2; Fearless Fox, 8.5 (K. Bartle), 3. Five lengths ; three-quarter!) of a length. Time, I.o*.