SPORT AND SPORTSMEN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20634, 14 August 1941, Page 10

SPORT AND SPORTSMEN

ADDINGTON TROTS MANKIND’S SUCCESS AUGUST FREE-FOR-ALL (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club's meeting was held in showery weather yesterday. The attendance was good. The track was holding. The totalisator handled £">4,701 10s against £55.920 for the second day last year. Concluding results are:— Avon Handicap, of £SOO (4.32) ; 2 miles. — 4-4 Grade Fields, It. (R. Townley). 1; 5-5 Mute, It. (I). Bennett), 2; 1-2 Jenny’s Guy, 24yds (R. W. Townley), 3. Also started: 8-8 Tan John It., 10-10 Mohican It., 9-9 Parrish Guide It., 0-0 Rush Laddie 48yds., 2-1 Lament 48yds., 3-3 Dark Hazard 00yds., 7-7 Gerfalcon (',oyds. Two lengths; 20 lengths. Hard Hazard was fourth. Times. 4.50, 4.50 2-5, 4.55. August Free-fur-All, of £500; !{ miles.-3-5 Mankind (W. It. Butt), 1; 1-1 Dusky Sound (R. Townley), 2; 2-2 Nelson Eddy (L. O Thomas), 3. Also started: 6-G Colonel Grattan, 7.7 Great Jewel, 4-4 Gold Bar, 5-3 Kenworthy, 8-3 Southern Chief. Four lengths; a length. Kenworthy was fourth. Times, 2.53, 2.54 4-5, 2.55. Canterbury Handicap, of £3OO (3.25) ; 1) miles. —1-2 Ronald Logan, It. (J. B. Pringle), 1; 4-5 Oxford Scholar, It. (D. K. Yeatman), 2; ,3-8 Royal Guy, It. (J. McLennan, jun.), 3. Also started; 9-8 Coquette It., 6-6 Drumoak It., 5-4 Nationalist It., 4-5 Purina It., bracketed with Oxford Scholar. 2-3 Gold Chief 12yds., 3-J Turco 12yds., 7-7 Wainom Girl J2yds. Half a length; three lengths. Waiuoni Girl was fourth. Times, 3.37, 3.37 1-5, 3.38 1-5.