BIG CROWDS AT ALL MEETINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 154, 27 December 1935, Page 4

BIG CROWDS AT ALL MEETINGS

CUDDLE WINS THE AUCKLAND CUP

URGE DIVIDEND AT PALMERSTON NORTH

The weather throughout the Dominion was favourable for all the race meetings yesterday and better times were evident in the large attendances and the substantial increases; recorded on the totalisators. The most notable performances .were Cuddle's win in die Auckland Cup, Cuddle establishing a new record of 3min 23 l-ssec for the-two miles, and Hunting Cat's victory in the Manawatu Cup. Tenth on the machine, Hunting Cat came from the back and.was sent on to win'by three-quarters.of a length from the favourite Werohia, who had been ridden hard into >the lead nearly five furlongs from the pos,t. 'At..the .trotting ..meeting at Carterton the principal event, the Wairarapa Cup, went to Bonnie Direct, the public's choice, and a^ Ashburton the Champion Slakes event was won by Frisco Lady. .■ _, K. Voitre had a. good day at Melbourne. He rode three winners and was second in the Hopetoun Handicap, his remaining ride. . . ■ . ;