WHIPPET RACING

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22344, 7 March 1938, Page 15

WHIPPET RACING

SUCCESSFUL TROPHY MEETING

Keen racing was watched by a large crowd at Bushy Park, Riccarton, on Saturday afternoon, when the New Zealand Whippet Racing Club held a very successful trophy meeting. There were 110 entries.

The following were the results; — Ktwi Nursery Handicap, 100 yards—J. Bell's Donald Dhu (10yds) 1, Mrs Maddams’ Lady Win (10yds) 2. Time. S 1-5 sec.

Agnes Ward Light-weight Handicap. 200 yards—First heat: J. Morton’s ’ Golden Queen (13iyds) 1, 3. W. Cooper’s Heroic Faith (14yds) 2, W. Wilkins’s Bower Rose (13yds) 3. Time, 12sec. Second heat; Mrs Reader’s Mazzinl (12Jyds) 1, R. Lee’s Always (13yds) 2, S. Allan’s Silver Crest t!4 yds) 3. Time. 12sec. Final: Mazzinl 1, Golden Queen 2, Heroic Faith 3. Time. U 3-ssec.

Coker’s Open Flat Handicap, 200 yards —First heat: D. A. Clarke’s Gay Crusader (14yds) 1. E. Crooke’s Brian Bosco (14yds) 2, H. V. Howard’s Flying Wjn (7yds) 3. Time, 11 3-ssec. Second heat; D. A. Clarke’s Lady Graceful (81yds) 1. W. Linton’s Bundy (14yds) 2, D. Briggs’s Golden King (14yds) 3. Time, II 3-Ssec. Final: Golden King 1, Gay Crusader 2. Brian Bosco 3. Time, 11 3-ssec-

Juvenile Handicap, 200 yards—E. Edwards's Tar Brush (18yds) 1. E. Edward’s Jack Rabbit (18yds) 2. Time. 12 Burwood Flat Handicap. 200 yards—J. Middleston's Royal Shot (13yds) 1. Mrs J. Bell’s Gay Marigold (14yds) 2. Time. 11 Riccarton Hurdle Handicap, 200 yards— H. Brigg’s Golden Queen (19Jyds) 1. W. Wilkins’s Silver JubUee (20yds) 2. Time, 12 4-ssec.

Open Hurdle Handicap, of 200 yards— D. Briggs’s Golden King (20yds) 1. Mrs H. Barnes’s Sunnee Royal (ITiyds) 2. Time. 12 3-ssec.

Islington Light-weight, 200 yards—First heat! J. Morton's Golden Queen 1. Mrs Reader’s Mazzini 2, J. W. Cooper’s Heroic Faith 3. Time. 13sec. Second heat: W. Wilkins’s Bower Rose 1. B. Cooper’s BromleyChief 2. Mrs J. Johns’s Arctic Queen 2. Time. 13 l-ssec. Final; Golden Queen 1. Mazzini 2, Bower Rose 3. Time. 12 2-ssec. Howard Handicap, 200 yards—First heat: R, Hawes’s Hotpcint (12yds) 1. E. Crooke’s Brian Bosco (13Jyds) 2. Mrs Maddams’s Heroic (14yds) 3. Time. 11 3-ssec. Second heat: Mrs L. McKendry’s Coronation (14yds) 1. Mrs A. Owen’s Hunting Song (14yds) 2. Dent and Smith’s Royden (14yds. 3. Time, 11 3-ssec. Final; Hot Point 1, Coronation 2, Brian Bosco 3. Time, 11 2-Ssec.

Allan Open Free-for-all. 200 yards—First heat: H. V. Howard’s Flying Wyn 1. Mrs A. Owen’s Robin Adair 2. D. A. Clarke s Lady Graceful 3. Time, 12sec. Second heat: H. Hawes’s Hot Point 1, D. A. Clarke's Gay Crusader 2, Mrs L. McKendry’s Thunderbolt 3. Time, 12sec. Final; Flying Wyn I, Hot Point 2. Time, 12sec.

Woolston Improvers’ Handicap. 180 yards —First heat: Mrs A. Owen’s Hunting Song (20yds) 1, L. Stubbing’s Tornado (20yds' 2, J. Morton’s Barney (20yds) 3. Time. 11 3-ssec. Second heat; Mrs L. McKen- }

dry’s Coronation (20yds) 1. Mrs J. Bell's Gay Marigold (20yds) 2. Smith and Deni's Royden (20yds) 3. Time, 11 3-ssec. Final: Royden 1, Hunting Song 2. Time 11 2-5 sec. •