Steeples Season Opens At Birchwood Hunt
“The Press” Special Service INVERCARGILL. The Birchwood Hunt’s annual meeting at Riverton tomorrowwill be a dress rehearsal for the Riverton Easter carnival, which opens next week. The steeplechasers will be in full force and it will be the first time their Riverton chances can be assessed by race-day experience over the difficult Great Western course. It will also be the first occasion in many years that a hurdles race has been run on the Riverton course. The T.A.B. double will be run on the President’s Handicap and the Otautau Handicap. Balmaris and Carpenter will not start tn the first leg. The weather has been fine and the track will be firm. Selections:— Noon.—Hack and Hunters* Hurdles: Golden Glen, Istan Light, Underwood Lass. 12.35 p.m.—Hovica Stakes Ho. 1: Verey Light, Bellcara, Winnie’s Girl. 1.10 p.m. President’s Handicap: Segundo, Manners, Red Siren. 1.45 p.m.—J. S. Hazlett Memorial Hunt Steeples: Mosque, Jolly Fox. 2.20 p.m.—Novice Stakes No. 2: Beginner’s Wonder, Silver Prince, Raylln. 8.55 p.m.—Otautau Handl-
cap: Spanish Fox, Willypay, Gay Coon. 3.30 p.m.—Gardner Memorial Steeplechase: Bush Creek, Ataarangi. 4.10 p.m.—Kennels Hack Handicap: Urban, Scram, Kulinga. Fields, with form, for the T.A.B. double races are: 1.10 p.m.— PRESIDENT'S HANDICAP, £350: Hm and 150yds.
st. lb 0041 Cassarook (4) 9 6 6430 Red Siren (9) 9 0 2762 Manners (8) 8 3 2443 Segundo (2) 8 0 5036 Alpine Light (1) .. 7 7 2934 Lorastan (10) 7 7 4390 Pahi (6) 7 7 012 Star Quality (5) 7 7 Scratched: Balmaris (7), Carpenter (3). 2.55 p.m.— OTAUTAU HACK HANDICAP, £225; It. st. lb 1661 Western Gale (4) .. 8 10 1821 Willypay (14) 8 8 2411 Gay Coon (13) 8 6 2253 Music Man (3) ». 8 5 5615 Spanish Fox (7) 7 12 6468 Alice Derb£ (2) 7 7 0080 Blue Girl (6) 7 7 2179 Breeza (5) . . 7 7 8357 Captain Howe (17) .. 7 7 0001 Cascara (1) 7 7 5600 Change (16) 7 7 2251 Coronet Peak (11) .. 7 7 Geisha Boy (12) 7 7 8 Harkaway (18) 7 7 6321 Lornevilile Lass (10) 7 7 1770 Radiant Light (9) .. 7 7 9870 Sandy Man (15) 7 7 0977 Trixeen (8) 7 7
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31321, 17 March 1967, Page 5
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