DUNEDIN COURSING CLUB

Evening Star, Issue 18997, 20 July 1925, Page 9

DUNEDIN COURSING CLUB

■ NOVICE AND MAIDEN STAKES Warm and windless weather made tha meeting on Forhnry Plumpton on Saturday uncommonly pleasant for onlookers. Not so nice for the hares and the greyhounds; the , ground, though good enough for walking, was a bit sodden for galloping. . 'Hie officers for the day included Mr J. Ronald as slipper, Mr 31. Prebblo as judge, Mr C. A. Marks as slip and identification steward, whilst Messrs T. Loo and C. Lee divided the secretarial duties. A start was made at quarter to 2, and it was all over at 3.20. NOVICE STAKES. For dogs that have not won money or trophy. Winner £O, runner-up £3. —First Round.— J. Muthcsnn’s Grand Slam heat Price and Mitchell's Peggy O’Neill.— Easy win on speed and the short work, i (/. Morgan’s Kovansfort heat Jl. Hare’s Happy Warrior. —Kevansfort up by throe lengths and work divided. ‘J. Simmond’s Happy Voyage beat ,T. Goodman’s Man o’ War.—A good race up to a hare that escaped alter wrenching. Miss N. Anderson’s First Glance heat Price and Mitchell’s Gold Plane.—First Glance was a lit 11 o the faster and kept the truer line of the hare. —Second Round.— Kevansfort beat Grand Slam. —A [ great race, and not much between ! them at close, quarters. I Happy Voyage beat First Glance.— i The hare favoring First Glance, Happy i Voyage had several lengths to make i up, but did so and gob a fair share of the exchanges. —Final.— Kevansfort (by Jock Mack—Norman’s Queen) beat Happy Voyage (by Jolly Tar—Parade.—Kevansfort led six lengths and bowled the hare over in Lis stride; thou a lot of quick exchanges ensued, and Happy Voyage must have marly balanced the .score when Kevansfort killed. MAIDEN STAKE. For dogs that have won neither money nor trophy. Winner £3, runner-up £2 10s, —First Round.— G. Morgan’s Boyle’s Bride and R. Hare (ns) Pride of the East ran an undecided. Slipped again at once, Boyle’s Pride won in a course which was mostly a straight run to the escapes. M. Murphy’s Mariner heat J. Samson’s Fawn Alley.—A strong hare favored Fawn Alley, but Mariner was there with him and won with little f< spare. J. Thomson’s Colonial Boy beat Mi. -*3 Anderson’s Devil’s Guard.—A good t aco, but Colonial Body won hadsomely in tire working of a strong and dodgy hare. M. Adams’s Roaming beat T. Lee’s Canadian Mac.—Roaming went wide from the slips, but was up and Lad easily the best of the exchanges. —Second Round.— Mariner heat Boyle’s Pride.—Mariner up two lengths and did the bulk of the work till Boyle’s Pride got a meritless kill. Colonial Boy led four lengths and turned, and that is all there was in it. —Final.— Colonial Boy (by Jolly Tar—Our Anthem) beat Mariner (by Jolly Tar— Queen Lizzie).—Colonial Boy up two lengths and turned to Mariner, who drove to cover,. Only two kills during the afternoon. Dogs and Imres both ran well. The slipping was without fault, and the general management quite firstVICTORTAN WATERLOO CUP. A Melbourne cable utates that the Victorian Waterloo Clip was won by l&k, jvitli o|>ea Eire m sumwt-uj^