SUCCESSFUL MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 71, 21 September 1936, Page 13

SUCCESSFUL MEETING

RACING AT FOXTON

WINNERS HARD TO LOCATE

The Foxton Racing Club's Spring Meeting on Saturday was held under the same favourable weather condi- . tions as the club has always enjoyed since it gave up racing in the. summer. For the early events there was warm sunshine,/and though later the sky clouded over it remained fine and pleasantly mild. The track was in excellent order, though a trifle dead, with the surface inclined to break, after rain during the week. It was another very successful meeting for the club. Thb-racing, despite the defeat of all except one of the favourites, was airways well contested and in some of the finishes. , there were keen struggles. The Carnarvon Gold Cup, won from end to end by the favourite "Fersen, was a disappointing affair, due to a false pace: but compensation was coming in the Foxton Hack and Hunters' Steeplechase,, which was as enjoyable a cross-country race as one could wish to ■' Witness, except that the investments were not correctly placed by the majority of the public. Despite the failure of so many wellbacked horses, business was always brisk on the totalisator, and the pools for all the races were well up on' last year's figures. For the day the invest..ments amounted: to £9250, as against £7137 10s twelve months ago, an increase of £2112 10s. At the Winter Meeting last May the turnover was £7147. The racing was kept punctually to time, with the last event run almost exactly on schedule. . . The only official inquiry during the day was into the running of the favourite Liane, who finished third in the Trial Stakes. ■ The finding of the judicial committee was that Liane's rider, P Burgess, had committed an error of judgment, partly contributed to by the owner's- instructions, but that neither jockey nor owner was guilty of a breach of the rules relating to run-1 ning a. horse .on its merits. j

PATAGONIA'S FIRST

NOVICE FIELD OUTSTAYED

Patagonia, who was noticed finishing oh well in his single start at Wangaiuii the previous- week, opened .ms • score in the Trial Stakes by outstaying the others. Although always handy in the running, he was finding the ; turns troublesome, but once the field w*s in the straight he was able to stretch out and he wore down Kia Ora to win by , a long head. He was at quite a useful price. •"..•• This winner was having only ms fourth race,. and he should go on to further success on roomy tracks. He is a five-year-old bay gelding by Cape Horn from the Nassau-Talitha mare ■ Paraki, so that he is a. full-brother to Trader Horn and Cape Paraki. and he is one of Mr.: W. R. Kemballs breeding. Mr. Hilton. Mr. Kemballs stud eroom, secured him as a foal and later sold him for £4 to a.Masterton resident, from whom he is now held on. lease by the Opaki trainer B. Burgess. „ • Kia Ora ran a good race all the way and had' charge shortly after entering ■" the straight, but the winner finished just too well along her outside. With plaeirigs at her last, three starts she 'is due to-have her turn ■shorjtly. . : .y .;■ j v::L'iane, &■■ daughter ofvDegagej .who was having-only'her-second ;-start, "would probably nave won- if she. had not run greenly, for after being disappointed in 'the straight, she1 came '.again over on.the outer and was only ■ a neck away third. The Pawnbroker and Mirths the leaders into , the straight, stopped, badly. Gold Nymph loofcs likely., to.do much better.before long.- • / •■'" '■• .■' •:'.. . .