STAKES TO HAMMERHEAD

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 19, 24 January 1938, Page 13

STAKES TO HAMMERHEAD

(United I'rc-ss Association—By Electric 'J'eleKrupli—Copyright.) SYDNEY, January 23. : For racing at Randwick, where the 3 course was heavy because of overmglr i showers and further rain today, the • attendance slumped. It also led to tm i free use of the scratching pencil, i Hammerhead had a clear-cut victorj in the Challenge Stakes, the much fancied Brown Baroness wearing herself out pursuing Brazandt. '. Panaster also won the January Han. j dicap convincingly from Frittlc [ lThree horses fell in the Trial Hurdles, but the riders escaped witt f minor injuries. Capaneus ftmshec second, but Prince Pombal shaped in- ! differently in this event. Chief results are:— f WIDDEN HANDICAP, £500; for two--1 year-olds; 5 furlongs. >R. P. Trihey's b c Bonfield, by > Bonnement — Cherry Field (Shean) I i Feminist, 7.9 (Hickey) { . Miltiades, 8.5 (W. Cook) < Thirteen started. Half a length; ■ length. Time, lmin 2Jsec. ■ CHALLENGE STAKES, £1000; 6 furlongs. 'C. Sutherland's b g Hammerhead, '. by Royal Sun—Adina, oyrs ■ (Harvey) I Brown Baroness, 7.10 (Hickey) 2 ' Mark Antony, 7.5 (Duncan) 3 Scr.: Arabia. Micawber, Bodley Head, Tolerant. . Length; three lengths. Time, lmin I 13.|sec. ' JANUARY HANDICAP, £500; H , miles. M. Webster's br o Panaster, by Pantheon—Poetaster, 3yrs (Duncan) i Prittle Prattle, 8.4 (Bartle) 2 Rossjoy. 6.11 (Harvey) 3 Shakespeare was scratched. Three lengths; half a length. Mana- ' nui was fifth. Time, 2min lOJsec. Troy finished second in the Bondi , Handicap, which was won easily by Rex. «. Red Rosebud was third in the Pad- , dington Handicap, won by Mordent.