READING WINS STAKES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1941, Page 10

READING WINS STAKES

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) SYDNEY, September 6. Showing a return to form, Reading won the I Canterbury Stakes, at the Canterbury Park j Meeting, defeating High Caste by half a length. High Caste made a prodigious run from well back in the field, but Reading, hard ridden, just stalled off the challenge; Beau Vlte. having his first race of the season, never showed up. y-x .. ■■>> The New Zealandera Serenata and Omapo were . unplaced in the Campsie Handicap. Another New Zealander, Duvach, who was to have had his first outing in the Flying Handicap, met with an injury: to his head en route to the course and had to be withdrawn. The principal results were:—: CANTERBURY STAKES, £500; 6 furlongs. U. Luscombe and F. Manus'u's b c Reading, . ; | by Marconigram—Gravure, syrs, 9.2 ! (Munro) ........................... 11 High Caste, 9.2 (Bartle) 2 Amiable, 8.11 (Cook) 3 Six started. Half a length; length and a I half. Time, Imin 12sec. CANTERBURY GUINEAS, £750; 9 furlongs. C. Perry's b c Chatham's Choice, by Chatham—Spanish Vidtory, 3yrs, 8.5 (Knox) 1 Yarella, 8.5 (McCarten) 2 Beau Son, 8.5 (Bartle) 3 Ten' started. Head; length and a half. Time, lmln 54sec. : FLYING HANDICAP, £250; 6 furlongs. C. Ryan and J. Pollard's br g Martheus, . by Pentheus—Marcella, 3yrs, 7.13 (Cook) ll Air Link, 7.5 (Mulley) 2 Reception, 8.10 (McCarten) 3 Seventeen started. Half a length; length and a quarter. Time, Imin 13sec. TURF CLUB HANDICAP, £250; 1 mile and 3 furlongs. F. W. Hughes and-E. A. Coghlan's b h Dashing Cavalier, by Constant SonDashing, 4yrs, 9.5 (Gillard) 1 Red Pete, 7.3 (Wilson) 2 j Aristocrat, 8.1 (Knox) o Ten started. One length and a quarter;! length. Time, 2min 19% sec. j