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NEWS AND VIEWS

Racing on Saturday. Sporting fixtures for Saturday will be confined to racing at Invercargill and trotI ting at Grcymouih. Waikouaiti Judicial' Committee. The Judicial Committee at: Waikouaiti to-morrow will be Dr M. Brown, and Messrs A. \V. Douglass, J. H. Rochfort, and W. Higgins. Special Trains. Special trains for Waikouaiti leave Dunedin to-morrow at 8.55, 9.20, 9.55, and 10.20 a.m., and on Friday for Oamaru at 8.27 a.m. A Non-starter. Penny Whistle, who ran much helow the form expected at Wingatni, _ was returned* to Riccarton after the meeting and is an unlikely starter at Waikouaiti to-morrow.

Galloped On. Distress Signal will not be a starter in (ho Visitors’ High-weight Handicap at Wyndham to-morrow, as he met with injuries lo one of his legs, and will require a spell before he races again. Like Firm Going. Provided the going is firm at Waikouaiti and Wyndham to-morrow both Hearth and Wild Career will be fancied in the principal races at those fixtures, but neither of 1 them can handle soft going. Brackets at Waikouaiti. The flowing horses will be bracketed on the totalisators at Waikouaiti to-mor-row Cup.—Haughty Winner and Parchment, Don’t Forget and Benevolent. Bray Memorial.—lrish Lass, Legis, and True Mate. Hawkesbury Handicap.—lrish Lass and Legis. Brackets at Wyndham. The following horses will be bracketed at Wyndham to-morrow:— Diggers’ Harness Handicap.—Ackanora and Sun joy, Arion Mac, and Communique, Egotist and Vault, Fancy Goods and Trevaihan. and Lustrous and Southern Wrack. Wyndham Cup.—Lord Nuffield and The Victory Harness Handicap.—Burnham and Lunch Hour, Play Safe and Erinack, Prince Charles and Capri, Great Northern Derby. The star attraction at Ellerslie to-mor-row will be the meeting between Battledress and Houle March in the Great Northern Derbv. The latter ran second lo Beau Leon, who won in Imin 35 3-ssec, and Battl'edress also won over a mile in Imm 36sec on Monday. Having won the New Zealand Derby (bo latter has the best credentials as a staler. Circular Note. Out of 11 starts this season Circular Note has two seconds, two thirds,_ and two fourths to his credit, and in his last, four races has indicated that he is returning to the "ood form he showed last'season, when out of 21 starts he won seven times, was second in tour, and third in three of ins other races. At Ellerslie last June he carried 9.6 and beat a big field over six furlongs in heavy going in Imin IVsec. Eulogist. Eulogist started three times at the New Zealand Cup Meeting. With 8.2 he finished second lo Batlledress 7.7 in the Spring Plate, one mile, run in Imin 38sec. On the second day he carried 7.1 and won the Criterion Handicap, seven furlongs, from Egyptian Rose 7.1, Boswell 9.3, Circular Note 8.1, and seven others in Imin 24 l-sscc, and on the fourth day with 7.12 finished third to Pay Roll 7.7 and Duncannon 8.4 in the Members’ Handicap in 1 imin 24 2-ssec. Eulogist has won over a mile, hut has yet to be tried out over a mile aiid a-qnarler.

Division Race at Wyndham. At the present time there are 20 horses in the limit in the mile and a-half harness race, to he run at Wyndham to-morrow, and unless at least six of them are withdrawn the race will have to be run in divisions, as follows: — First Division. Ackanora, Arion Wave, Communique, Vault, Trevathan, Lustrous, Nancy Logau, Scotch MUsic, toilk liannei* Comeaway. . , . f Second Division.—Sunjoy, Anon Mac, Bank Again, Egotist, Fancy Goods, Fust Silk, Straight Flight. Southern Wrack, Perth, Sea Fortune, Slieve View, Honest Charlie. Yet to Win Over Middle Distance. ■ Hearth has started eight times this season for a win over a mile at Trenthanx under 8.9 in Imin 43sec, and a dead-heat with Not Out in the Jockey Club Handicap, one mile, at the New Zealand Cup Meeting. In the latter race she carried 9.0 and was beaten half a head by Wild Fox 7.0 in Imin 37sec (a track record). Last season she won seven races over six furlongs, and dead-heated with''Hanna in the Cressy Handicap, one mile, at the New Zealand Cup Meeting in Imin 38sec. Like Eulogist, Hearth has yet to see out a mile and a-quarter. Canterbury Park Meeting. The only sporting fixture iu Canterbury, to-morrow' will be the first day of the Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s Summer Meeting'at Addington. Unusually large fields have been paid up for, and the following horses are likely to be fancied in their respective engagements:— 12: Introductory Handicap (3.35), mile and a-half.—Bomber. Manian, Houghton Feast. 1: Railway Handicap - (saddle, 2.14), one mile.—Mankind, Gold Bank, Colonel Axworthy. 1.45: Lyttelton Handicap (3.53), mile and five furlongs.—Manpower, Portfolio, Golden River. * 2.25. Canterbury Handicap (4.29), two miles.—Gold Bar, Haughty, Peter Smith. 3.5: Stewards’ Handicap (3.48). mile and five furlongs.—Certissimus, Biworthy, Canton. 3.45; Islington Handicap (3.26), mile and a-half— Jacosc, Turco, Indian Clipper. 4.25. Templeton Handicap (3.30). mile and a-half.—AU Gallant, Warfield, Burfc Scott. 5.10: An Revoir Handicap (2.47). mila and a-quarter—Great Blaze. Bronze Eagle, Dark Hazard.

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Evening Star, Issue 24082, 31 December 1941, Page 9

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NEWS AND VIEWS Evening Star, Issue 24082, 31 December 1941, Page 9

NEWS AND VIEWS Evening Star, Issue 24082, 31 December 1941, Page 9