AT ADDINGTON NATIONAL TROTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 198, 21 August 1943, Page 6

AT ADDINGTON NATIONAL TROTS

COUNTLESS' SUCCESS

(P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day.

The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Cluti's national meeting opened at Addington to-day. The weather was ■ Tine and the tracK in good order. The totalisator was not open for the first race, the Metropolitan Maiden. Results: — METROPOLITAN MAIDEN of £400. - One mile and a quarter. Limit 3.5. FANCY GOODS— J. Bryce 1 PAPERMAN—R. Young 2 PRINCESS MARITZA —R. Townley 3 Scratched: Delvision, May Queen, Professional. Eight lengths; four lengths. Times: 2.54 3-5, 2.56, 2.56 4-5. INTRODUCTORY HANDICAP of £400. Two miles. Limit -1.44. 2—2—FOLLOW ME. 12yds—O. E. Hooper .. 1 I—I—SPORTS GUIDE, 36yds—G. Cameron .. 2 4—4—GOLD FLIGHT, limit— J. B. Pringle . 3 Scratched: Cabin Boy. Length: head. Times: 4.22 4-5, 4.21. 4.24. 4-5. QUEEN MARY HANDICAP of £520. Two miles. Limit 4.39. 2—2—PURVEYOR, 24yds—G. McKendry 1 4—4—RECLUSE, 12yds—L. A. Maidens 2 12-12—MANPOWER, limit—C. Kins 3 Scratched: Palomar, Burnham, Crucible. Length and a half; neck. Times: 4.24 2-5, 4.25 3-5. 4.26 4-5. NATIONAL TROTTING STAKES of £650. One mile and a quarter. FANTOM, 24yds 1 BELIEVE ME. limit 2 FOREWARNED, 24yds 3 All started. NATIONAL HANDICAP of £1000. Two miles. Limit 4.30. COUNTLESS, limit 1 PARSHALL, limit 2 COQUETTE, 24ydS 3 All started.