TROTTING
METROPOLITAN CLUB'S MEETING. (IT TILEGRATH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Bth Nov. The Metropolitan Trotting Club's Spring Meeting was continued to-day in beautiful weather.' The attendance was large. The totalisator handled £38,473, against £36,109 10s for the second day last year. Remaining result* : Metropolitan Handicap, of 250 soys; I one mile and five furlongs.— l Specification, Junr., 4sec, 1; 2 Trix Pointer, 4sec, 2; 5 Bundura, 4sec, 3. Also started : 1 Jolly Girl 3sec and Joan of Arc 3sec (coupled), 6 Huia Grey 3sec, 4 Dillon Eddy 3sec, 9 Prince Akwood 3sec, 8 Huon Drift 3sec, 3 Pitaroa ' 4sec. Won by two lengths. Time, 3min 48Bec. Free-For-All, of 350 soys; li miles. —2 Cathedral Chimes, 1; 1 Author Dillon, 2; 3 Adelaide Direct, 3. Also started : 4 Admiral Wood. Won by a length. Time, 2min 42 3-ssec. Sockburn Handicap, of 350 soys; two miles.—3 Olive L., 6sec, 1; 2 Michael Galindo, 4sec, 2; 4 Red Heather, 3sec, 3. Also started : 6 "Rum- ! my 4sec, 8 Truganini ssec, 1 Eruption 6sec, 7 Norval King 6sec, 5 Treasure Seeker 6sec. Won by four lengths. Time, 4min 46 3-ssec. Railway Handicap, of 250'sovs; one mile.—l Beckon, 7sec, 1; 4 Whixall, ssec, 2; 6 Disappear, 4sec, 3. Also started : '9 Master Park 3sec, 7 Ariadne 4sec, 3 Law Chimes. 4sec, 2 Winston M. 7sec, 5 Huon Drift 7sec, 8 Miss Audrey 7sec. Won 'by six lengths. Time, 2min 16 2-ssec. ' Royal Handicap, of 300 soys; one mile.—9 Sungod, 2sec, 1; 1 Dunspey, 3sec, 2; 10 Fr:mdoc:a. lsee, 3. Also started : 3 Soda sci-, ' 11 Glendalough lsec, 8 Frank Tracey lsec. 7 Eccentric lsec, 4 Queen's Drive 2sec. 2 Nancy Patch 3sec, 5 Mountain Rose 4sec 8 Rose Dillon 4sec. Won by half a length j Time, 2miii 13 2-ssec. °
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 113, 9 November 1917, Page 5
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