GOLD BAR – PARSHALL ARE TROTS FAVOURITES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 197, 20 August 1943, Page 5

GOLD BAR - PARSHALL ARE TROTS FAVOURITES

(Special.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. Gold Bar will start a hot favourite for the August Free-For-AU at Addington, and Parshall and Countless are expected to fight out the National Handicap. Given a firm track, Paul. Collette has only to repeat his private trials to win the Canterbury three-year-old stakes, while Desmond s Pride is an attractive trotter—a better horse than when Fantom defeated Him in the New Zealand Trotting Stakes at Easter. The totalisator will not operate for the Maiden Handicap. The following horses may run well:— Introductory Handicap: Cabin Boy, Sports Guide, Highland Scott. Queen Mary Handicap: Purveyor, Watcher, Burnham. National Stakes: Fantom, Desmond's Pride, Indian Arrow. National Handicap: Parshall, Countless, Bronze Eagle. Advance Handicap: Braw Lass, Catalpa, Indian Clipper. Canterbury Stakes: Paul Collette, Bel Hamed, Acropolis. Stewards' Handicap: Douglas McEhvyn, Royal Worthy, Dark Hazard. _ August Free-for-All: Gold Bar, HaughtyHardy Oak braket, Peter Smith. The fields are:— """* INTRODUCTORY HANDICAP of £400, two miles, limit 4.44.—Dawn Grattan, Gold Flight, Festivity, Lady Dawn, Oregon, limit; Cabin Boy. Follow Me. 12yds; Audition, Flash Guy, Lizzie Woods, Silhouette, Zingarrie, 24yds; Conflagrate, Sports Guide, 36yds: Highland Scott, Scottish Air, 48yds; Courier, 96yds. QUEEN MARY HANDICAP of £500, two miles, limit 4.39.—Manpower, Tenpenny-bit, Watcher, limit; Jack Spratt, Jerry Parrish, Stylish Wilkes, Recluse, 12yds: Belfast Jack, Burnham, Purveyer, 24yds; Crucible, Palomar, Star Ace, Jacose, 36yds; Mongolian, 48yds. NATIONAL FOUR-YEAR-OLD TROTTING STAKES of £650, one mile and a half.— Bancor. Believe Me, Belle Header, Bingen's Colleen, Mamanuas, Rereweka, limit; Desmond's Pride, 12yds; Fantom. Forewarned, Indian Arrow, 24yds. NATIONAL HANDICAP of £1000, two miles, limit 4.3o.—Accountant, Countess, Parshall, limit; Clockwork, Great Blaze, Mankind, Pleasant Guy, Toorak, 12yds: Bronze Eagle, Coquette, Shadow Maid, 24yds: Bayard, Dusky Sound, 36yds; Horse Power, 48yds' Loyal Key, 60yds. ADVANCE HANDICAP of £600, two miles, limit 4.31.—8 raw Lass, Catalpa, Erinack, Kinawley, Oxford Scholar, limit; Loyal Friend, Silver Guy, Warfleld. Worthy Cross, 12yds; Golden River, Indian Clipper, 24yds; Lady Carol, Happy Man, Special Edition, 3fiyds. CANTERBURY THREE-YEAR-OLD STAKES of £GSO, one mile and a half. — Bonny Bridge, Calumet Queen, Native Scott, Navy Queen, News Agent, Paul Collette, Scottish Treasure, Volo's Victory, limit; Imperial Lady. Plunder Bar, 12yds; Acropolis, Bay Machine, Bel Hamed, Scottish Emperor, 24yds. STEWARDS' FREE FOR ALL of £500 (trotters), one mile and five furlongs.—Dark Hazard, Jimmy Drusus, Millisle, Parrish Guide, Mohican, Gelfalcon, Douglas McElwyu, Margin, Manian, Royal Worthy. AUGUST FREE FOR ALL of £500, ono mile and a quarter.—Loyal Rey. Kelson Eddy, Springfield Globe. Ronald Logan, Mankind, Shadow Maid, Peter Smith, Dusky Sound, Eurt Scott, Fremont, Joan Conquest, Accountant, Bayard, Ferry Post, Gold Bar, Haughty, Hardy Oak, Happy Man.