ASHBURTON RACES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23052, 21 June 1940, Page 12

ASHBURTON RACES

TO-MORROW’S PROGRAMME The winter meeting of the Ashburton County Racing Club, to be held on the Ashburton racecourse .to-morrow, will provide Canterbury racegoers with an excellent afternoon’s sport. All of the fields have filled well, in fact there were very few defections from the whole card, and the two jumping races should, be spectacular contests. The principal race, the Mayfield Hack Handicap, and the open event, the Maronan Handicap, have both attracted good class horses, and the evenness of the fields in the maiden and hack sprint races will ensure close tussles. The course is reported to be in excellent order for winter racing, and will favour all classes of gallopers. In addition to a special passenger and horse train leaving Christchurch at 7.10 a.m., arrangements have been made for the 8.35 Christchurch-Invercargill mail train to stop at the racecourse to set down passengers who may return by the north-bound mail train. A special return train for passengers and horses will leave the siding at 4.35 p.rn. So that the return train will not be unnecessarily delayed, the order of the last two events has been changed. The Winchmore Trot Handicap will now be the seventh race, and the Maronan Handicap, the eighth. This alteration will enable the sulkies to be loaded while the last race is being run, saving a considerable amount, of time. The win-and-place system will be in use, and the following horses are likely to be well supported:— Hinds Hurdles—Garonne, Cintilla, Master Dingle. Novice Stakes —Wild Coon, Valcron, Sweet Mystery. Lyndhurst Trot—Mervyn Derby, Lady Denise. Pleasant Guy. Mayfield Hack Handicap—Raroa, Merry Simon, Prudent Prince. Dromore Hack Steeplechase—Cottingham, Surcoat, Mount Val. Moreton Hack Handicap—Synthetic, Midgard, Schoolgirl. Winchmore Trot —Mortlake, Arietta. Jack Spratt. Maronan Handicap Lazybones, Flame Queen, Grey Honour. The programme is as follows: — HURDLE HANDICAP, of £HS; one mile and a half and 100 yards—Garonne 10-9: Colonel French. Mompere 9-12; Master Dingle 9-9; Cintilla 9-6; Dalrymple, Half and Half 9-3; Lifeguard 9-2; Silver .Slipper, Aggravate, Studley Royal, Shangri La, Sir Gladsome, St. Cedric, Testator 9-0. 12.10 p.m.— NOVICE STAKES, of £80; six furlongs —Halt, Tap Lady, Sweet Mystery, Nightshift, The Vulture. Citizen, Greenbank, Lockheed, Leopardstown, Valcron, Richelieu Pearl 8-10; Camphor, Wild Coon, Whiphand, Farida, Noko 8-0. 12 lyndhurst TROT HANDICAP, of £100; 3min 43sec class; one mile and a half—Canadian Prince. Clonard, Cockney, Cold Steel. Diamond Cluster, Festivity, Guy Azaleas. Hamarfast, Hardy Oak, Irish Dusk, Lady Denise, Marco Polo, Mervyn Derby. Narvik, Passing By, Pleasant Guy, Princess Maritza, Scapa Flow, Wainonl Jack scr; Ormolu, Welcome Stranger 24; Four Square 36. 1 30 p.m.— MAYFIELD HACK HANDICAP, of £140; one mile and a quarter—Shanghai Lily 9-2: Raroa 8-11; Prudent Prince 8-5; Scarteen, Vocal, Merry. Simon 8-4; Dividend 7-13; Ripley 7-12; Shangri La, Captain Bruce, Far East 7-10; Dranoel, Waka 7-8; Racewell, Pink Bird, Iceland Spar, Grey Silk. Royal Ransom, Royal' Refrain 7-7. 2 ‘Dr’OMORE HACK STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP, of £140; about two miles and a quarter—Cottingham 11-12; Courtyard 11-1; Flashlight 11-0; .Surcoat, Mount Val 10-7: Frenchy 10-5; Top Rank 10-4; Culverden 9-12; Joy Boa 9-7; Valens. Bright Bed, Golden Sight 9-0. 2 45 p.m.— MORETON HACK HANDICAP, of £100; six furlongs—Midgard 9-6; Raceaway 9-2; Synthetic. Schoolgirl 8-10; Counterlunch, Sham Boy 8-9; Lord Lynn 8-7: Crack o Dawn 8-G; Ferriby 8-3; Big Joe 8-1; Papernilla, Guspini, Asia, Ann Mie, Kilcato 8-0. 3.20 p.m.— WINCHMORE TROT HANDICAP, of £120; 3min 38sec class; one mile and a half—Alice de Oro, Arietta, Blue Diamond, Braw Lass, Burt Scott, Garment, Irish Dusk, Jack Spratt, Jarrah. Lord Zetland, Mortlake. Pursuit, Single Star, Wainom Jack scr; Oasis, Queen High, William Potts 12; Gold Bar, Otaua, Twist 24; Jacose 36; Busted Flush, Warfield 48. 4 p.m.— MARONAN HANDICAP, of £140; seven furlongs—Haughty Winner 9-13; The Wrecker 9-7; Trench Fight 9-5; Grey Honour 9-3; Skyrena 8-13; Wardress 8-9; Lazybones 8-7: Wagner 8-3; Flame Queen, JDonadea, Rebel Star 8-0. ,