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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 November 1926, Page 6

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TAKAPUNA J.C. MEETING. (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 27. The Takapuna Jockey Cliib’s Spring Meeting opened to-day in wet weather which considerably affected the attendance. The race track was heavjL The. totalizator took £42,449, compared with £62.420 10s, on the corr&poncling day last year. Results: — Melrose Maiden Handicap—l 3 Arch Queen (Hall) 1; 1 Town Bird 2; 11 Cantab 3. Also ran: ,14 Abbey Day, 12 Alonsoa. 10 Ambrosia, 5 Anolo, 4 • Oahama, ,8 Ballachulish, 11 Choris, 20 Ccrinax, 22 Creation, 6 Dimmer, 9 Harbour View, 3 Kyzgone, 17 Miss’ Astron, 16 Modest Boy, 18 Ototoa, 18 Queen Rewa, 2 Royal Picture, 21 Sir Gilbert, 1 Tekawana (coupled with Town Bird), 7 Star Comet and Wonder Star. Won by a length and flhalf; two lengths. Bahama fourth. Time 1.39.'

Tiri Handicap.—4 Black Cruiser (Mcßae) 1; 2 Pouri 2; 1 Royal Form 3. Also ran: 3 Wedding March, 3 Daddy’s Girl, 5 Kamehameha, 9 Han-, gawera, 7 Sea Comet, 6 Fair Abbey. Won by a length; a neck. Sea Comet fourth.' Time 2.42 3-5. Wedding March and Daddy’s Girl fell. R. Nixon, rider of the latter, was kicked unconscious, but soon recovered. An inquiry resulted in a. finding that the falls were purely accidental. Borough Handicap.—B New Moon (Lee) 1; 6 Namutere 2; 1 Archibalds. Also ran: 2 Lt Ohoucas, 7 Arch Arnie, 3 Ring the Bell, 5 Muscari, 9 Uralla, 4 Thursby. Won by.two lengths; a length and a-half. Time 1.36. Alison Cup.—6 Ruapapa (A. Keesing) 1, 5 Spoony (Jones) 2, 9 Boomerclay (Foster) 3. Also ran: 2 Master Doon, 3 Desert Glow. 1 Town Bank, 1 .Trcsham, 7 Lord Star, 8 Princess Ronnie, 10 Transformer. Ruapapa and Spoony were the pace makers, and they raced in close terms into the Straight. Ruapapa then drew away, and won by three lengths. Spoony was a neck in front of Boomerclay,, with Masctr Doon well up fourth. Time 2.38. Tresham was last. Cambria Handicap.—s Lorna Doon (Davies) 1: 4 Exalted 2; 1 Titree 3. Also ran: 2 Auriculas, 4 Arihana, 3 Carinthia. Won by three and a-half lengths.; three-quarters of a length. Time 1.8 1-5.

Takapuna Plate. —2 Ruffles (E. Ixeesihg) 1, 3 True Blood 2, 4 Delightment 3. Also ran: Ned Kelly, 7 Rahepoto, 11“ Quinsilia, 8 Dobbin, 9 Adjuster, 10 Luxurious, 1 Tinokoa, 6 Valkon, 13 King Selwyn, 12 War Officer. Won by/ a length and flhalf; three-quarters of a length; Ned Kelly fourth. Time 1.38. Ponui Handicap.—2 Wenday (McGuire) 1; 3 Golden Krist 2; 5 Maveelish 3. Also ran: 1 Quondong, 4 Judge’s Box, 7 Air Queen, G Blue Sky, 5 Bracken A.bbey, S Bizarro. Won by three-quarters of a length; half a length. Time 2.7 3-5. Blue Sky was fourth. Cheltenham Handicap.— 1 Archeen (Davies) 1; '3 Dave 2; 10 King Merv. 3. Also ran: 5 York Abbey, 7 Pavo, 2 Nancy Lee, 2 Hoariri, 8 Heisler, 6 Aurumavis, 9 Value. Won by half a length; two and a-half lengths. Time 1.22 2-5. NOTES ON THE RACING.

(Special to “Star.”) UCKLAND. November 27. At the opening day of the Taka puna Jockey Chib’s Spring Meeting heavy rain was experienced before the start of the first race, and the course was very heavy. There was a, iair attendance. For the opening event, the Melrose Maiden Stakes, the scratching of Cy nehi and King Emerald still left a field of 21. The bracketed Tekawana and Town Bird was made a better favourite than Royal Picture., the best backed of the others being Kyagzone and Bahama. When the field settled down Bimmer was showing the way a.ong the back to Town Bird, Royal Picture, Arch Queen, Sir Gilbert and Kyngaone. Town Bird had charge crossing the top from Dimmer, Royal Picture and Cantab. Town Bird landed into the straight in front of Cantab, .uoyal Picture, Arch Queen, Bahama and Dimmer, and in the run home Arch Queen prevailed by a length and a half from Town Bird, who was two lengths in front of Cantab. Bahama was fourth. in the Tiri Highweight Handicap, Pentagram and Lord Bruce were withdrawn. Royal Form was the favourite of a field of nine, carrying £l2O more than Pouri and Wedding March, and Black Cruiser also had friends. As they raced along the back, Royal Form and Fair Abbey were on terms with Black Cruiser, am, then at intervals came Sea Comet Kamehameha, Hangawera and Fair Abbey, with Pouri as the handiest of the others. Black Cruiser won by half a length from Pouri, who finished fast and was a neck in front of Royal Form. Sea Comet was fourth. R. Nixon, the rider of Daddy’s Girl, was knocked about the head and rendered unconscious. The scratching pen was pretty freely used in the Borough Handicap, for which ten eventually faced the starter, and Archioald was £2OO better backed then Le Choucas, the next in demand being Ring the Bell and Thursby. Ee Choucas and Archibald went out to make., the running from Namutere, New Moon, Ring the Bel’ and Aren Amie. Crossing the top the order was Le Choucas, Archibald, Namutere, New Moon, Ring the Bell, Thursby, Muscari and Uralla. Archibald was first to turn for home from Namutere, New Moon and Ring the Bell. New Moon came through in the concluding stages, to beat Namutere by two lengths, with Archibald a length away in third place. Ring the Bell was fourth. The winner raced in the interests of Geo. Gillett, a member of the 1905 All Blacks. Nippy was the only withdrawal from the Allk.cn Cup, for which raceTresham was over £5OO better supported than master Doon, while Desert Glow and Town Bank followed 'in order of favouritism. As they raced along the back, Ruapapa was pilot, followed by Spoony, Desert Glow', Tresham, Princess Ronnie, Lord Star, Master Doon, Town Bank, with Boomerday and Transformer last. Ruapapa and Spoony still held the leading positions as they turned for home, in front of Desert Glow and Booiherday, and Ruapapa went on to win easily by three lengths from Spoony, who was half a length in front of Boomerday, with Master Doon close up fourth. Then came Transformer, Desert Glow Towm Bank, Princess Ronnie, Lord Star and Tresham. Ti Tree was nearly twice as good a favourite as Auriculus, with, Carinthia next in request, for the Cambria Handicap, for which four scratchings left half a dozen runners. Carinthia was the first to show out from Exalted, Lorna Doon, and Arihana, but crossing the top Exalted and Lorna Doon were together followed by Arihana, Ti Tree, Auriculus and Corinthia. Lorna Doon was the first to turn for home from Exalted, Arihana and Ti 'free, and went on to win by three and a half lengths. Ti Tree was three-quarters of a length behind Gxalted third, with Arihana fourth. u lie scratching pen was freely used n the Takapuna Plate, there being lino withdrawals aod thirteen startsrs. Tinokoa was the public choice, >ut ran fifth. Otherwise backers were veil on the mark, the next three in rder of favouritism filling the places. 7ed Kelly left across the top from, "inokoa, Ruffles, True Blood and Renement. Ruffles was the first to

turn lor nome, wiui i inoicoa, uengntment, Ned Kelly and True Blood the most prominent of the others. Ruffles held his own to win by a iength and a half from True Blood (Roy Reed’s mount), who beat Delightment by three-quarters of a length. Ned Kelly was fourth. In the Ponui Handicap, backers had much the same fate as in the previous race, the favourite, Quondong, being sixth, while the next three took the stakes. Along the back Bracken Abbey was attended by Maveelish, Blue Sky, Air Queen and Bizarro. Bracken Abbey was still in charge when they reached the top, but he then retired and Maveelish ran to thq front from Bracken Abbey, Wenday and Quondong. Maveelish was first to turn for home, just in front of Goldeu Krist and Wenday, with Blue Sky and Quondong next. In a good nish Wenday won by three-quarters of a length from Golden Krist, who beat Maveelish by half a length. Blue Sky was fourth. In the Cheltenham Handicap, Hoariri was £l2O better fancied than Nancy Lee, with a keen demand also for Dave and Archeen. The lastnamed was the quickest to begin, but along the back was headed by Pavo. By the time the top was reached, Archeen had taken charge again and led into the straight from Dave, York Abbey and King Merv. Archeen went on to win by half a length from Dave, with King Merv two and a-half lengths away third; then came Auramavis, York Abbey and Nancy Lee. FORBURY TROTS. DUNEDIN, Nov. 27. The second day of the Forbury Park Spring Meting was held to-day in wintry weather, and on a heavy track, again making for slow times. The tote handled £26,900J for the day, compared with £37,411i for the second day last year, making a total for the meeting of £45,666, compared with £61,7831 last year. Results: — Suburban Handicap.—9 Nelson McKinney (Townley) 1; 4 Young Tom 2; 2 Fairlight 3. Also ran? 1 Hawkesbury’s Pride, 3 Elzear, 8 Dillon Harold, 10 Peter Felix, 7 Master, Peter, 6 Underviewer, 5 Freeman. Nelson McKinney took charge commencing the last lap, and stalled off Young Tom, to win by a length, with Fairlight eight lengths away, and Elzear next. Time 4.7. ■' Advance Handicap.—4 Day Pointei(McLellan) 1; 3 Lihgfield 2; 1 Colene Pointer 3. Also ran: 16 Logan Park, I Royal Authoress, 5 Robert Bell, 17 llereweka, 6 Kinney Dillon, 11 First imperial, 7 Pert Pointer, 15 Spring Hower, 12 Scottish Maid, 9 Erin’s Jhild, 2 Sahib, 13 Peter Elect, 10 Imaris, 8 Mirella. After going a solid

■■ race, way jromier won uy two leugtu: e with the favourite half a length be ■- hind Lingfield, followed by Amaris t Time 4.8. < £ Empire Handicap.—l General Bin I gen (Edwards) 1; 4 Nipper 2; 3 Mountain Chimes 3. Also ran: 7 Glen , Farg, 3 Maiwhariti (bracketed with . Mountain Chimes), 2 Rollicking Bells, ’ 5 Logan Lad, 6 Macanda. Won easing ’ up by eight lengths, with the same " distance between second and third, ’ and Glen Farg fourth. Time 2.18 4-5. i Brighton Handicap.—7 Tim Wood r (Lowe) 1; 2 Real the Great 2; 1 I Young Tom 3. Also ran: 5 Avali anche, 6 Underviewer, 4 Freeman, 8 - Duke Bingen, 3 Nelson McKinney, i Tim Wood was always prominent, i and finally won very easily by twelve I lengths from Real the Great, who beat i the fast finishing Young Tom by over i two lengths. Freeman being fourth, t Time 5.13 3-5. r Forbury Handicap.—7 Dalnahine (J. Bryce, jun.) 1, 3 Downcast 2,2 Logan ’ Lon 3. Also ran: 10 Harold Burowod, 4 Trenand, 8 Menember, 5 Napland, 6 Bing Boy, 1 Peter Bingen, 9 Event, 11 Dolly Dillon. Dalnahine was always in a handy position, and, finishing on strongly, won by a good three L lengths from Downcast, who beat . Logan Lou by two lengths. Menember L was fourth. Time 5.0 4-5. , Tainui Handicap. —1 Colehill (Berry) f 1; 2 General Bingen 2; 3 Desborough - 3. Also ran: 4 Homer, 5 Some Wilkes, 6 Four Bells. The winner was always handy, and came away to win nicely, by over a length, with Desborough, who was driven wide out all the w'ay, half a Inegth back third, and . Homer fourth. Time 5.7 1-5. i • Victoria Handicap—2 Engagement 1; 1 Proud Ata 2; 1 Ingle Bingen 3. ’ Also ran: 4 Audobell. In a great race to the post, Engagement just got up ’ to beat the favourite by a neck, with Ingle Bingen nearly eight lengths t away. Time 5.6 2-5. , \ Recovery Handicap—2 Macaranda (Walsh) 1; 1 Ivy Audubon 2; 5 Bing Boy 3. Also ran: 7 Maiwhariti, 6 Harold Burwood, 1 Bismurate, 3 Lady Embrace, 4 Downcast. Macaranda soon reached the front, and w r as never headed, winning by two lengths fromIvy 'Audubon, who beat Bing Boy by a length. Downcast was fourth. Time 2.27 3-5.