GRAND NATIONAL MEETING

Evening Star, Issue 22084, 18 July 1935, Page 4

GRAND NATIONAL MEETING

Weights for the principal events at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Grand National Meeting:— NEW ZEALAND GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE, l,ooosovs. 3£m.

TURF IN AUSTRALIA WIN FOR GOLDEN TREASURE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SYDNEY, July 17. A feature of the Victoria Park races was the performance of Golden Treasure in the Nursery Handicap, of 4£f, m which he clipped three-quarters of a second from the race record. His win was especially impressive, as he drew an unfavourable barrier position and was near the tail of the field until the last furlong. , „ „ Golden Chance and Golden Treasure, respectively the three and two-year-olti brothers of Golden Wings, opened their winning accounts on successive race days in the metropolitan area:— Results; — NURSERY HANDICAP, 120sovs. 4Jf. First Division. Mr C. T. Keeble’s ch c GOLDEN TREASURE (Lackham— Megalo), 2yrs (N.Z.), 7.7 (Knox) 1 Wise Boy, 8.7 (Fox) 2 Calesco, 7.7 (Finch) 3 Thirteen started. Won by a head, with three-quarters of u length between second and third. Time, 58isec, Sir Walter was third in the second division of the Nursery Handicap. WELTER HANDICAP, 120sovs. 7f. First Division. Mr S. K. Cush’s b g PRINCE POMBAL (Pombal—Veil), syrs, 10.7 (Webb) 1 Tortoni, 8.11 (James) 2 El Paraiso, 8.8 (Maxwell) 3 Eighteen started, including Limoux and Tea Fight. Won by (ivo lengths. Time, Imin 27Jsec—a race record. Tea Picker was unplaced in. the second division of the Welter. Viking and Stratosphere were unplaced in the Maiden Handicap, and King of Diamonds was unplaced in the second division of the Flying Handicap. MOTOR RACING RECORDS BROKEN Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, July 16. At Bonneville salt flats, Utah, the London triumvirate —John Cobb, T. E. Rose-Richards, and C. J. P. Dodsonshattered 74 international class A world’s unlimited and American motoring records in a 24-hour test over the salt flats, Cobb started and finished the day and night run, but the others were largely responsible for making up much of the time lost in the pits and with tyre trouble. The average for the 24 hours was 137.7 m ; ' s per hour, bettering the mark of 127.22 ivrles per hour by A. B. Jenkins, a Utah driver, a few weeks ago. The drivers were beset by heat, winds and adverse conditions.

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