GIUSEPPE WINS IN SYDNEY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28987, 31 August 1959, Page 4

GIUSEPPE WINS IN SYDNEY

Better Chance For Big Cup Race

(N.Z Press Association—Copyright)

SYDNEY, August 30.

The New Zealand pacer Guiseppe furthered his chances of qualifying for the £5OOO Anniversary Cup in October with a stylish win in the Harold Park Handicap last night. Starting favourite at 5-4, Guiseppe beat Kildare Star by three-quarters of a length with Delvyn Ringer a neck back in third place. Another New Zealand hope. Dune, broke badly at the start and was not a possibility, finishing tenth.

Guiseppe has to win two more races to qualify for the Anniversary Cup. Last night he was driven by P. J. Hall in the absence of his regular trainer-driver. Max Allen, who is under a two months’ suspension. Guiseppe began slowly and raced wide practically all the way. Hall was forced to pull the whip in the straight but Guiseppe responded gamely to win.

Results:— Harold Park Handicap,

Eleven and three-quarter furlongs GUISEPPE It. P. J. Hall 1 KILDARE STAR. It. M. Adams 2 DELVYN RINGER 12 G. Hall 3 Three-quarters of a length; neck. Time: 3min 12 2-ssec. Betting: 5/4, 9/2, 16/1.

World Record For Mile

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) WESTBURY (New York), August 29. The pacer Bye Bye Byrd set a world record of Imin 57.45ec for the mile at Westbury's Roosevelt Raceway in winning the 15.000 dollars Fourth Estate race.

The four-year-old pacer clipped four-fifths of a second off the previous record set by Forbes at the same track on June 6. 1953. Last night was the thirteenth time that Bye Bye Byrd has run the mile in two minutes or less.