RACES AT WASHDYKE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 94, 22 April 1931, Page 6

RACES AT WASHDYKE

SOME HORSES IN FORM

Racing will also;, be held at Washdyke •to-morrow, where the first section of the South Canterbury Jockey Club's Winter !■ Meeting is; to be staged. The club usually conducts a two-day .meeting in; June, but this year it da holding one day to-morrow, and the second day on 20th June. The two steeplechases have been deleted for ■to-morrow, and two trotting races incor.porated.' The fields are good throughout. The principal event is>the -■ .... TESCHEJIAKEjt HANDICAP, of 200' sots; ono mile and a quarter,-. •■ - - ;■ .■ •■ ■ ■ ■-. st ib '• : . '•.'•■ -; st -lb Black Duke :. ft 8 Compris. .... 7.10 Town Major.. 8, 9 -Red Kac'er .., '7 7 Starstiootcr . S 1 Glonrowaii .. 7 3 Motint Boa -.. 8 1' Night EfTort '...■ '7. "0 . InevltaWo >. : 7 11; .' . ■ ■ Following on his double success at Rictiarton recently, Black Duke will have plenty of friends if started in the Tefichemaker Handicap, but although he is a noted-weight-carrier he may have more than enough hero, for his recent victories . have been, at comparatively light weights. He won the race last year with 10.0, when the 9.0 minimum was' in force, but his -task is now a much -more 'difficult one. Three who may prove his superiors afc the differencf) in -weights are Town Major, Inevitable, and Compris, while Mount Boa

is always.'.a . p6*iibili(y. The two.'firstnaine'd won open handicaps at Eiverlon, where" tlie'clasa Lw'tiH AVoll übo.vc ordinary; and Compris :,meets Black Puke at_ 213 /2lb better ■•terms than wlicn he ran him to half a length in. the~Greiit Autumn! Mount Bbai also, comes in at;. 201b better terms witK,-the:;t'6pweight:.,than in .the Great Autumn, vlt'is- ho" easy-matter to predict theI".eventual "favourites, but a. likely pair are Inevitable and. Town Major. - Horses who are Jiv form. . and , who should race.;.'prominently in the other events': iiamcd'.arc: Tekapo Hurdles: Trbilus.and.Antrim... Boy. Electric. Stakes: Tea'.Urn-and-. Tippling. Otipua Handicap Trot: Royal: Parade' and ;; Lord Antrim. Rosewill-Hack Handicap: Royal Love and Owlsflight. ;;;: Gladstone -Handicap Trot: Compromise ;and< Pronto Bingen. . Smithfield.:,Handicap:ii'Hot Tea. and: Rod Royal. Dondasteiv Handicap:'j\laster" Anomaly and Wayirig: Corn.'- .•'';;. J. '_■.. , ■ ■,' .'>'■;■ '■■■.;'■.■;.".■ ;: