WAIMATE RACES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21534, 25 July 1935, Page 16

WAIMATE RACES

PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY

The annual steeplechase meeting of the Waimate Hunt Club will be held on the Waimate racecourse to-day. The single pool system of betting will be in use. The following horses can be expected to be well' supported:— Studholme Hack and Hunters' Hurdles—Polydora and Adult. Novice Stages—First View and Pompeii. Winter Trot—Airflow and Ivan de Oro. Hunt Club Cup Steeplechase—Fiom and Starlight. Waihao Hack—Knockfin. and Golden Dart.

Morven Handicap—Cleaner and Heather Glow. Hunters' Plate—Fiat Lux and Trisox. Waimate Hack —Golden Dart and Importance. The programme is as follows: 12 noon— STUDHOLME HACK AND HUNTERSHURDLE HANDICAP, of 50 sovs. One mile live furlongs. st. lb. at. lb. Polydora 10 11 Trisox 9 0 Adult 10 6 Water Polo 9 0 Mount Boa 10 4 -Grey Boy 9 0 Anvii 9 7 King's Arauline 9 0 Parade 9 0„ 12.35 p.m. NOVICE STAKES, of 35 sov>. Six furlongs. ,st. lb. st. lb. Cualpi' . . 8 4 Queen Pompeii .. 8 4 Dorothy 8 4 Carnlough 8 4 First View 8 4 Frontage 8 4 Violenta 8 4 Citron .. 8 4 Jack Ahoy 8 0 Rathkeii 8 4 1.10 p.m.— WINTER TROT HANDICAP, of 40 sovs Smin 43see class. One mile and a half, Sylvie'9 Best scr Smithy scr Marie Potts scr Ivan de Oro scr Locust scr Master Garry scr Bamboozle scr Bondholder scr Erin's Guy scr Airflow (T.) 24 Sea Peter scr Slipalong 3(5 1.45 p.m. HUNT CLUB CUP STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP, of 40 sovs. About two miles and a quarter. st. lb. " Bandy Boa 913 Starlight ,9 12 'footer 9 13 Fiom 0 11 Cappy Ricks 9 12 Red Sceptre 9 9 Duncias Girl 912 Wykemist 9 4 2.29 p.m.— WAIHAO HACK HANDICAP, of 40 sovs. Six furlongs. St. lb. st- lb. Knockfin 911 Pompeii 7 8 Golden Dart 8 (S Violenta 7 7 Importance 0 0 Queen Elgindale 7 9 Dorothy 7 7 Call Money 7 9 2.55 p.m.— MORVEN HANDICAP, of U0 sovs. One mile. st. lb. st. lb. Water Heather Power 8 8 Glow 7 13 Cleaner 8 4 Captivate 7 7 3.30 p.m.— HUNTERS' PLATE FLAT HANDICAP. of 30 sovs. One mile and a quarter. st. lb. st. lb. Arauline 11 3 Colonel Trisox » 11 3 Quex 10 J> Fiat Lux 11 3 Cappy Feterette 10 13 Rieks 10 7 Auster .10 9 RcdSceptro 10 7 4.5 p.m.— WAIMATE HACK HANDICAP, of 50 aovs. . Seven i'urlong3. ■ st. lb. st. lb. Blazon 0 2 Wonderful. 710 GoidcnDart 8 3 First View 7 9 Importance 8 3 Call Money 7 9 Impala 7 10 REASSESSMENTS, SOME HANDICAPS EASED OLD STAGERS FAVOURED The New Zealand Trotting Conference has issued the assessments of all pacers and trotters raced during the season now closing, and included is a big list on Line 1. the slowest in the calendar. A review show 3 that many of the horses racing to-day are merely an expense to their owners, and are neither use nor ornament on the trotting track. The handicapping system has proved of great benefit to trotting, but, it is contended by many interested in the sport that weaknesses are shown, in the rules which allow concessions to horses that have been proved to be past their best. Included in the list of those granted concessions may be mentioned two New Zealand Cup winners in Wrackler and Red Shadow. The latter won the New Zealand Cup from 4mm 24sec, the Christcnurch Handicap from 4.min 23sec. and with two fast sprint races to his credit he still figures on a 4min 23sec mark for two miles. Lindbergh, another apparently hopeless proposition, has been let up one second, and the 14-year-old Jewel Pointer, now at the stud, has been granted a concession of one second on his previous mark of 4min 25sec. Ayrmorit Chimes. Vesuvius, Kingcraft, Eureka Boy. Gold 'Mngc, John Noble, and others of this calibre have been let out on their marks, and do not appear capable of doing any better for their owners. The trotters' division shows that concessions have been granted to a number of horses well past their best.