WELLINGTON MEETING OPENED
PONTY SCORES SURPRISE VICTORY IN CUP
(By "Rangatira."')
dividends and easy wins were tlie iealures ol tlin opening day of'the Wellington Racing Club's Summer Meeting at J rcntham yesterday. Not a single slruight-out favourite was succcssiul, ihough it is difficult to understand why Gold Boa and I' ranci» Drake were not the public's choice in their races, and only four place favourites made a dividend return. lour win, dividends were of. double-figure dimensions, with the Cup winner I only s price best, and another was just under double figures; Tunnel lei also paid double figures for his placing in the Cup. Considering the reverses that investors suffered, and the prompt closing of the totalisator, the Club did well to handle £43,311, an increase ot £2353 10s on Cup Day last year, with the Anniversary Day holiday still to come. . The success of Ponty in the Wellington Cup was a general surprise, but it was no fluke on the running of the race. Afterwards the trophy was presented in the birdcage by his Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Galway, who had come down from Auckland by air to be present at the meeting.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1937, Page 13
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194WELLINGTON MEETING OPENED Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1937, Page 13
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