COURSING

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27132, 31 August 1953, Page 3

COURSING

WATERLOO CUP MEETING CONCLUDED

The third and final day of the New Zealand Waterloo Cup meeting was held on the Christchurch Coursing Club’s grounds at Sockburn yesterday. D. Dudley’s Yellow Hope won the cup, beating the younger dog. Lord Rocca (E. Gray and E. Grimes), by a narrow margin. The following were the results of yesterday’s events:— Waterloo Plate.—Second round: J. Bradbury’s Grappler’s Choice 7, M. and T. Fraser’s Real Lady 2; P. T. Wylde’s Sandy Heritage 2, A. and D. Flutey’s Just Gay 0; M. and E. Hands’s Passaform 5. L. Harding’s Great Hope 2. Semi-final: Grappler’s Choice 2, Sandy Heritage 0; Passaform, a bye. Final: Grappler’s Choice 4, Passaform 0.

Waterloo Purse.—Third round: B. Williams’s Our Hero 4, F. W. Wigg’s Radiant Night 1; F. J. and M. Cleary’s Pallos Athene 2, L. A. Fuller’s Boniface 0; H. Wilson’s Ambitious Joe 6, R. J. Mills’s Barcarolle IL Semi-final: Pallos Athene 2, Our Hero 0; Ambitious Joe, a bye. Final: Ambitious Joe 5, Pallos Athene 3.

Waterloo Cup.—Semi-final: D. Dudley’s Yellow Hope 4, G. Blair and Miss Hodgson’s The Rascal 3; E. Gray and E. Grimes’s Lord Rocca, a bye. Final: Yellow Hope 3, Lord Rocca 2.