LOWER VALLEY RACES.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIV, Issue 221, 24 September 1910, Page 8

LOWER VALLEY RACES.

. [press association.] The weather was fine for the second 'day of the Lower .Valley Club's spring meeting, but there was a, very poor .attendance. . .Results.— ' Hack-Hurdles:' JSimray (9.11) 1, <Gaelic (10.0) 2, Rosegrovte (11.18) 3. -Also started: St. Amelia. Won all ;fche way.' Time, 2min 56see. ■ Aorangi Hack: Longstep (7.4) 1, .Complexity (7.4) 2, Fighting Maid •(7.8)" 3. AI3O started: Leahofa and Field .Fair: Longstep got a fiy- . ing start ? • and won by six lengths. 'Time, 2min" 51 l-ssec." Martin Memorial: Llanwerh (6.7) 1, Merrie « Zealand • (9.5) 2,' Mataari ■<6.13) 3. - Won all' the way by four .lengths. Moloch burst a blood-vessel. 'Time, lmin 45sec. Also started: ■ .Moloch, Sir Ialo; atnd .Killaloo. , Steeplechase: Waiohika (11.5) 1, 1 .'St. Amelia (12.3) 'S.-'JBoyol Guard 1 <10.7; -3. Also, started: Flamingo, ~ i'Sylvia Maid, and Hepere; Flamingo /ell, and Sylvia Maid refused the sod •jump. Won by ,a gqod length, several Jengths between''second ar.d third. T'me, 4min 35sec • ' County Hack: Miss Sylvia (7.9) 1, .."First Consul (9.3) 2, Embrocation •-(6.12£) 3. Also started:, Pukewai, .Xiongwood, Lord Kitcheran, and "Odessa.. W,on by two lengths. . Time, -lmin 18 l-ssec.' -. *. . Telegraph Handicap: Bally Shannon (7.11) 1, Full Rate (10.13) 2, PalesbhieriJ.%)>3... "Palestine led three <ttiart-ers of .the way round; iTull Rate ihen joilie^ issue. At thp straight -•'Bally Shatl'non made a godd ran, and won by nearly 'a length. Time, lmin "3 3-ssec. Also started: Aimwcll, .Afterthought, and Clem. Ladies' Necklace: Mediterranean <1I.T) and Comethup (10.10) doad lieat 1, Maori Rifle (10.7) 3. ' Also started: Teutuatu, Traylock, Egypti 'The Flyer, and Castup. A good race; by a length. Time, Jmin • Hack Scurry: Merrie Time 1, IGrand Jewel 2, Field Fair'B. 'Also Started: 'Ramble, Merri4 Fly. Fighting' Maid, M^rxie r^natj'-and Cara. Won by half a length. T.ime 4 lmin ,Ssec. . .' i• , .(',.'■• , :'-Eight bookmakers were licensed at r£lo -10s. Totalisator receipts for the day werai £209^ with £2531 for the.^irst day;-making the for -jche meeting. £563p } leaving, a;, shortrage on last year'o'Jj ,!£232. . ",. , ,