TURF TOPICS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 51, 18 August 1939, Page 10

TURF TOPICS

PAKURANGA HUNT CLUB The Ellerslic racing season will bd opened on Saturday by the Pakuranga Hunt Club one day meeting. Excellent acceptances have been listed and with 48 in the Sylvia Park Handicap two divisions will be duly staged, the prize money having been increased to £150. Thus early in the season investors will be set seAcral puzzles during the day» inasmuch as there will be many candidates makifig their first appearance under silk after the winter vacation. The programme will open with the Greenmount Hunters'' Steeplechase of two and a half miles. The field will include several previously unknown quantities, so preference will naturally be shown to those which may have performed prominently last season. Backers may incline to the chance of BRITISH SOVEREIGN TUPEOTU KITTLE Quite a good class will contest the Harris Memorial Hack and Hunters' Hurdles to be run over a mile and three-quarters. After the preliminaries down the straight, there will be a strong demand for tickets on, KNIGHT OF AUSTRALIA KING MUSK LITTLE BRITON The two divisions -of the Sylvia Park Handicap will then come up for settlement. The "first includes smart performers in Our Jean, Val Lu. The Trimmer Erlick, Gamos, Roj*al Message and Clipper. More than likely there will be spirited sup port for OUR JEAN VAL LU GAMOS In tlie second six furlongs dash smart sprinters such as Kenneth Robert, Brazen Bold, Gav Movie, Spear ford, Odtaa and Hunto are engaged, and the favourites may include BRAZEN BOLD KENNETH ROBERT GAY MOVIE The principal flat event of the day will be the v .lellicoe Handicap, one mile. Maori Song is top weight with 8.10. with Orate next with 8.6 although he is generally regarded as a sprinter. Valmint B'. 3, Royal Bach elor 8.3, Jack> Tar 8.3, Besiege 7.12 Airam, Jayola and Black Musk 1.% nnd Very Glad 7.0 put up gefltel performances last season. Investors may. sum up in favour of MAORI SONG VALMTNT JACK TAR . The prize money for the Pakuranga Hunt Cup £575 and trophy £25 is the highest at the meeting, and very keen interest will be evinced in the cross country contest of three miles. A much fancied trio may be EN TOUR BIFORM ST MUSIC Several entrants in the Auckland Handicap w>ll probably have run in the Sylvia Parle Handicap earlier in the afternoon. High in the estimation of backers may be SACCONE THE CARDINAL VALDENE CI ass is by no means highly represented in the Ladies Bracelet, but nevertheless it will be one of the most popular events as gentlemen riders will have the opportunity of displaying their horsemanship over a mile and a quarter. The fancied division may include GLADTUM LAPIDARIAN TUPEOTU The day's racing,, w'th its innumerable thrill.T, will conclude with the Admiralty Handicap, the open spfint of tlie fixture. Sprinters of merit to cari'v the colours arc Francis Drake 10.2. Silver Jubilee 9.12, Orate 9.10 Whirling 9.7. Prince Acre 9.6. Young Paddon 8.13, Gn\Seton 8.12 and Bachelor King 8.5 The investing public may place most reliance on the prospects of STLVER JUBILEE PRINCE ACRE ORATE.