Lightning Boy Wins Wingatui First Leg

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28981, 24 August 1959, Page 4

Lightning Boy Wins Wingatui First Leg

“Th« Prtst" Special S«nrtc« DUNEDIN, August 23. Lightning Boy staged a brilliant late run to beat the favourite Promise m the Tally Ho Handleap at the Otago Hunt Club’s meeting at Wingatui on Saturday.

Lightning Boy was last at the home turn but he responded to the vigorous riding of his Riccarton jockey A. J. Stokes and crossed the line with only a nose to spare.

Lightning Boy is trained at Washdyke by W. P. Hogan foi Mr J. Y. Scales. He raced disappointingly in his three starts at the Grand National meeting but was third favourite behind Promise and Spiloch on all the machines on Saturday. In a total doubles pool of £18.548, including £2831 on-course. Lightning Boy carried 5787 J 10s tickets and 534 5s tickets were reinvested on Demolish, the surprise winner of the second leg, the Wingatui Handicap. . Lightning Boy and Demolisn paid £ll4 16s 6d for £l, Demolish is trained at Gore by R. J. Cochrane for Messrs J. A. Cochrane and B. F. Sindle. He was ridden by the Invercargill apprentice, L. M. Casey. The on-course double was won by Maisie iVauxhall Handicap) and Air Charm <Taieri Handicap). The combination paid £IW Is for £l. Maisie is trained at Invercargill by T. E. Pankhurst and the Super mare was ridden by J. D. Pankhurst. She was fourth favourite on the win machine and paid £9 16s. Air Charm is trained at north Taieri by E. M. Jopson, who racea the Royal Chief mare in partnership with his wife. First Las i . Lightning Boy B°t“P ctride to take the J cap from Promiae, which looked a winner short of the post, lightning Boy was at the rear throughout and was Still last into the straight. Well Cut tried to win all the way. He had opened up a lead of aeven lengths on Meteorologist and Coinalot at the mile, where Promiae. Spiloch and Gay Mood were next ano Lightning Boy was bringing up rear. Well Cut was four lengths clear at the half-mile, but JJt home turn Coinalot and Promujj were within two lengths of him, with Gav Mood making a «howinj. Spiloch under a hard ride, and Metaoroloof Lightning Boy. WiS half a furlong to ruq Promiae had the measure of Well Cut. with Lightning Boy coming into the picture further out. Lightning Boy got up to beat Promise by a "rise, with Well Cut bolding cn for third a length and threequarters back. Gay Mood was a moderate t ourth two lengthy away, with a neck to Spiloch, whleh wm never a possibility. Tliere was s gap to Coinalot with Meteorploglst •cst. ... Outsider’s Win Demolish, one of the outsiders of the field, took a close decision in the ffirtjrsss and third respectively,, both got a poor run. Marsana was last away and Royal Chant and Kinsimm also lost ground. Renway was soon in charge and at the half-mile he was two lengths clear of Subside, Kasr el Nil and Ben Led! in I'ne ahead of Kinsimm. .Kin*

Cassock, Demolish and Bow Tte. with Royal Chant and Manana at the rear. Renway wa* first into the straight from Subside and Ben Ledl. with Kinsimm challenging ahead of K«*r el Nil, Demolish and Matlock. Run. ning to the last furlong Renway, Subside and Kinsimm were practically in line, with Royal Chant moving through on the inner. D». rrolish challenging wide out and Marsana putting in his claim. Kinsimm looked a winner half a furlong out. but her stablemate, De. molish. and Royal Chant hoqdsd her shortly after with Manana coming home better than any. Demolish held off Marsana by half a head with Royal Chant three-quart-ers of a length back third and Kinsimm half a head away fourth. Subside weakened to fifth three and a half lengths away followed by Ben Ledi, Renway. Kasr el Nil, King Cassock and Matlock. Bow Tie was last. Hunt Cup Struggle won the Otago Hunt Cup Steeplechase in clear-cut styls He was always in the first three and after the pacemaker. Sir Gerald, crashed with a mile to ran Struggle was left in front. From then on he did not look like being headed. Struggle jumped cleanly and confi. dently throughout. Scotch Emblem made a promising first appearance over country. R* was well back in the early running and lost some ground when he dipped badly at the fence in front of the stands. Over the last mile he was always in second place behind Struggle, but did not look like pegging him back and Struggle beat him by three and a half lengths. Chief Cashier was a moderate (bird 10 lengths away. He was st the rear for a good part of ths journey, but moved up tnside the last six furlongs to be in third place Into the straight. He was under a hard ride and did not look a winner at any stage. Janama mads up ground for a moderate fourth it fcmgm away, with a similar marSir Gerald fell at the mile Bright Bridge lost his rider at the seven. Chief Note tailed off early and was pulled up. Results:— SEAVIEW BACK HURDLEB, Of £UO; one mile and a half. 3/2 SARKEY (4) 0-7 8/8 VAPER (I) 9-6 3 i. 1 4/4, SIR ROSLYN (3) 0-0 W. J. num > 5/5 Horatius, 1/1 Frarly Gate, 6/6 Naughty Boy, 2/3 Str Edwin. 7/7 Gay Romeo also started. Five lengths; three lengths. Sir Edwin was fourth. Tune, fcnln 49 4-ssec. w Dividends.—Win: £8 Ute 6d. Places: £1 12s «d, £9 4s M. £1 14s sd. TRIAL STAKES, Of £176: Six furlongs. 1/1 RALF OVID (2) 8-19 L. W. Hare 1 5/5 DEPEND (1) B-lO’i H. T. Anderton 2 3/2 NELSON’S NEPTUNE (7) 8-10 B. J. Anderton 2 7/8 Joe Boy, 8/8 King Pickle, 13/12 Panther, 16/18 Pussy Willow, 10/15 Wjldair also started. Neck; two lengths and a half. Happy Link was fourth. Time. Imin T 6 4-ssec. Dividends.—Win: £2 15s. Places: £1 10s 6d. £3 10s, £1 16s 6d. TALLY-HO HANDICAP, Of £350; one mile and three furlongs. 3/3 LIGHTNING BOY (4) 8-8 A. J. Stokes 1 1/1 PROMISE <5l 8-1 R. J. Skelton 2 4/4 WELL CUT 8-11 E. G. Low 3 6/7 Coinalot, 7/8 Meteorologist. 8/5 Gay Mood, 2/1 Sptloch also started. Nose: length and three-quarters. Gay Mood was fourth. Time, 2mln 26 l-ssec. Dividends.—Win: £4 10s 64. Places: £2 2s. £1 15s. OTAGO RUNT STEEPLES, Of £400; about two and a half miles. 3/1 STRUGGLE (6) 8-11 _ W. J. Hillis 1 2/3 SCOTCH EMBLEM (8) 8-3 . K. W. Quayle 2 1/2 CHIEF CASHIER (2) 18-8 B. 3. Anderton 1 5/5 Persia. 4/4 Sir Gerald. 8/J Bright Bridge. 8/9 King’s Loco. 7/6 Janama, 6/7 Le Rol. 10/10 Chief Note also started. . Three lengths and a half; 1# lengths. Janama was fourth. Time, smin 33 1-Ssec. . Dividends.—Win: £4 13b. Places: £1 12s. £1 17s, £1 13s. WINGATUI HANDICAP, Of £300; seven furlongs. 10/8 DEMOLISH (71 8-3 j 2/1 MARSANA U T stokM , 3/3 ROYAL CHANT (15 »-» . L. W. Hare 3 1/2 Ben Ledi. 5/5 Kinsimm, 8/0 Kasr-el-NU. 4/4 Subside. 9/16 Bow Tie. 7/7 King Cassock, 6/8 Matlock. 11/11 Renway also started. Half a head, three-quarters of a length. Kinsimm was fourth. Tims. —lmin 29 3-6 sec. Dividends— Win: £34 19s. Places: £5 0s 6d, £1 Ils. £1 17s <d. B. S. IRWIN STEEPLECHASE. Of £175: amateur riders; two miles. 1/1 BHOWPLACB (11 H-10 Mr B. R. Jackson 1 2/2 FLYING DOCTOR (51 11-4 Mr R. G. Ballantyne 3 4/4 ALMANAC (8) car. 11-018 . Mr M. V. Gillum 3 3/3 Haughty Step. 5/5 De Bracy. 8/8 Dunstan Night. 7/6 Gazette. 6/7 Sweet Column also started. Four lengths; one length. Haughty Step was fourth. Time.— 4min 33 l-ssec. Dividends—Win: £2 9s 6d. Places: £1 9s, £1 9s. £2 3s.

VAUXHALL HANDICAP, Of £200; six furlongs. 4/6 MAISIE (17) car. 8-2>i J. D. Pankhurst 1 2/3 MADAME CURIE (1) 9-0 B. J. Anderton 2 7/7 KEITH'S LUCK (16) car. 8-2>/ a .. J. Crawford 2 12/12 Sizzler. 6/4 Carbonett. 8/8 Relation. 13/13 Surapt. 9/11 Every Night, 11/9 Waikiwi Star. 17/19 Elrick, 5/6 Golden Glynnis, 1/1 Away Laughing. 10/10 Cassino, 3/1 Chief General, 16/16 Fine Note. 20/30 Glenbridge. 19/17 Maaefield, 17/18 Penstock, 14/15 Soulai. 15/14 Strath Maris also started. One length, three-quarters of a length. Strath Maris was fourth. Time.—lmin 17 3-seec. Dividends—Win: £9 16s. Pisces: £3 6s 6d. £3 4s Bd. £4 15e 6d. TAIERI HANDICAP. Of £250; one mile. 3/3 air Charm (5) 8-2 R. J. Skelton 1 7/6 VALARIS (3) 8-8 G. W. Wright 2 1/2 KELTON (7) 9-6 J. R. Dowling 3 2/1 Supreme Effort, 4/4 Cassock Rose. 5/5 Sydney Wake, 11/11 Consistent. 6/7 Mary Brown. 9/10 Mittcille. 8/8 Moon El Nil. 12/13 Neptona. 13/12 Regal Coat, 10/9 Well Now also started. Two lengths, two lengths and a half. Moon El Nil was fourth Time. —lmin 44 3-ssec. Dividends.—Win: £5 14s. Places: £1 14s, £4 14s, £1 12s.