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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12528, 13 April 1935, Page 11

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RACE WORTH £25,400. AZUCARi’S SUCCESS IN CALIFORNIA. i• • - Fifty thousand spectators saw the Irisli-hred Azucar win the Santa- Anita Handicap at Santa Anita Park, at Arcadia, California, op February 23. He covered the mile and a quarter in Smin 2 l-ssec, a track record. The race was worth 127,C0dol|ars (£25,40Q). This hats been surpassed.in America only by the 1929 Futurity at Belmont Park. The value of that race was 130,260 dollars (£26.052). However, Azuoar’s share of the -stake, viz. 109,-500 dollars (£21,900), is a record for America. Equipoise played up at the post and got. away poorly. He finished iscv.entli just, behind Mate, but three places ahead of Twenty Grand. Ted Clark, who acted as pacemaker, ran the first two furlongs in, 0.22 3-ssec, and the first mile in lmin 36 4-sse. The totalisator (pari-mutual) aggregate for the day’s racing was 750,000 dollars (£150,000). YOUNG TRAINER’S SUCCESS. Azucar was smartly ridden by George Woolf and bad been brought up to race in fine condition by 'his young trainer, L, Wilson, a Canadian from Tecumseh, Essex County, Canada, who- had ridden twice in the. Grand National Steeplechase at- Aintrce and had been training thoroughbrrVls for only two years. DTD NOT LIKE FUSS. Azucar did hot relish the role of the winner. After he was brought back to the winner’s circle to receive the floral horseshoe from Miss Anita Baldwin, daughter of the great horse breeder who owned four American Derby winners in the ’9o's, all buried on a hill overlooking the com sc, he became excited. He dragged one of the stable boys holding his bridle twenty yards before bo Broke clear and raced down the track.

"AUCKLAND JOCKEY’S AUSTRALIAN SUCCESS.”

According to the caption accompanying a picture in a well-known Auckland paper, which ought to know better, Keith Voitre, the brilliant horseman, who until a couple cf months ago was a resident of Paintersron North, and who is now making a nanie for himself on Victorian racecourses, is an Auckland jockey. As it happens (says the Mnnawaiu ‘Times’) Keith was born in Palmerston North and he wais a pupil of the West End School. After lie had passed the third or fourth standard he went to Otaki, where he was dux of the school. While still a pupil Keith used to fide work for Mr E. W. Penman, but when his parents returned to Palmerston North he was apprenticed to R. E. Hatch, remaining a resident of Palmerston North until be decided to trv his hand in Melbourne.

NOTES AND NEWS The backers of Relcpai had to accept a very short price in the Newmarket Handicap, but if was 'money from- homo.” He followed Hunting Day to the straight and then ran home ah easy winner from West Tor Vvho was just as orimfortnM y second Hunting Day lost third money to Lady T'otiaicT on the post. The winner put up a- good performance and aclued to bis friends for the CJ..T.O. Great- Easter nand-'cap, in which he will be ridden by G. Humphries. a * t Tho two-year-old race at Pahiatua on form looked a good thing loi Finnesko, hut lie bad a stiff task to head ofT his stable-mate. Rompalong. Rompatong got all the best, of tne start-', but Finnesko gradually overhauled him, and although bo could not have done any better, be held the issue safe over the last furlong'; Finnesko is the first winner credited to Defoe. Medway got put on the fence on the turn and the joc-key Sheehan was thrown out of the. khMo making a miraculous recovery. *t » ® A mild Surprise eventuated in the hack scurry at. Pahiatuh; when Pegged Exchange got up in the last stride. The favorites Debut and Vcnia Park cut each other’s throats In froiit, and when they weakened there was a riislv to tile post- from behind, Pegged Exchange heading off Lady rhd, with Bonnie Seng' wolf up on tlie dutbr third, Debut fOtii’tli, and Vonia Park next. : . The judge' mfssod Bonnie S'-onfe, 'third going to' DeBiit, and Vonia Park, being; placed fourth. This was Pegged Exchange's first will sinhe bis tWo-year-oid days since when he has been abided and spelled.

Big Dook stripped an improved look ing horse for the Charnpion Hack at Pahiatiia after’his'first day’s gallop and after being in a handy position throughout finished- ( solidly for a handsome wifi. Royal Dri'sh bssa-yed ty win from end to end., and "wits Still there ■'enteriiig 'tbo straight; where dig'f Ddbk; always going well ‘in bdiind/ jpulied put ahd was-'followed by Dafecouft!' ’ Big. 'Hook fiilished fesb-. feteiy,... Kltiiphgii he had to be iiarct ridden, wdro down' Royal. Dash, but Dare-court failed to Jtet lip, ’being a fair third while Dorado headed the bunch at an interval of three or four lengths. The winner pulled bard’parly; but settled down' to very resolute - galloping over the concluding stages. • ’ : • '

Walton Park, a- not favorite, duly scored in the Mangahao Haiidicnp at Pahiatua-. * T'.a Poiipoe set A sound pace iii Ah '.fendteavOtir •to wifi afl .tlip way. Eminent came at Her first), but could not- 'get tip, blit Walton. Park woro hor down and won well at. the finish. Vortigern showed improvement to finish fourth