WHIPPET RACING

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 1 March 1938, Page 4

WHIPPET RACING

SUCCESSFUL MEETING AT NEW BRIGHTON The New Brighton Whippet Club held a successful meeting at Bower Park, Burwood, on Saturday afternoon. The attendance of spectators was the largest seen at Bower Park. The weather was good, and the track in excellent order, and in the majority of events the finishes were exceptionally close. , , . The programme consisted of 13 events, and the big number of entries of dogs by new owners, including two from Invercargill, was a feature of the meeting. Results were;— Light-weight Handicap—First heat; W. Wilkins’s Bower Rose (14yds) 1, S. Allen’s Silver Crest (14yds) 2. Time, 12sec. Second heat; J. Morten's Golden Queen (13yds) 1, Mrs Reader’s Mazihnl (13yds) 2. Time, 12sec. Final: Bower Rose 1. Mazinni 2} Golden Queen 3. Time, 12 Improvers’ Handicap—First heat: L. Stribbling’a Tornado (20yds) 1, S. Hooper’s Sea Pearl (20yds) 2. Time, 11 4-ssec. Second heat: R. Sharpe’s Gay Marigold .(20yds) 1, Mrs J. M. Linton’s Faithful Glen (20yds) 2. Time. 11 4-ssec. Final: Sea Pearl 1 Guy Marigold 2, Tornado 3. Time, 11 l-ssec. Juvenile Handicap—H. Grigg's Gay Wing (12yds) 1. J. Clark’s Helen’s Pet (16yds) 2, E. Edwards’s Tar Brush (20yds) 3. Time, 12 2-ssec. Second-class Handicap—L. Hawser’s Hot Point (13yds) 1, D. Briggs’s Golden King (13Jyds) 2, W. Linton’s Bundy (14yds) 3. Time. 12 2-ssec. Free-for-All—H. W. Howard’s Flying Win 1, D. A. Clarke’s Lady Graceful 2. D. A. Clarke’s Gay Crusader 3. Time, 12 2-ssec. • . Light-weight Scratch—J. Morton’s Golden Queen 1, R. Lee’s Always 2, Mrs J. R. D. Johns’s Arctic Queen 3. Time, 12 3-ssec. Second-class Hurdle Handicap—Mrs McKendry’s Thunderbolt (191 yds) 1, D. Briggs’s Golden King (20yds) 2, W. Wilkin s Silver Jubilee (20yds) 3. Time 12 4-ssec. Open Hurdles—Mrs L. McKendry’s Thunderbolt (19yds) 1, Mrs Maddam’s Heroic (18yds) 2, R. Cummins’s Panthon (19yds) 3. Time, 13sec. Challenge Match between Mrs Fitzsimmons’s Belmont Rose and Wilkin’s and Ainger’s Cerne Abbas, for puppies three months old, over a distance of 100 yards— Belmont Rose had a comfortable win.