TO-DAY’S RACES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 85, 9 March 1934, Page 8

TO-DAY’S RACES

DANNEVIRKE MEETING. WALTON PARK WINS HIGHWEIGHT. OUTSIDER SCORES IN MAIDEN. COPPER KING’S CUP. QUEEN’S PRIDE THE NURSERY. Per Press Association. WOODVILLE, March 9. The Dannevirke Racine Club’s “revival" meeting commenced on the Woodvine course to-day. The weather is fine but threatening. The course is in good order with the sting out of the ground. There is a fair attendance. Results:- — MANGATERA HIGHWEIGHT HANDICAP, of £7O; second horse £l4 and third £7. One and a quarter miles. 2 Air B. Burgess's b g WALTON PARK (Cape Horn—Kilccit), syrs, 10.5 ... 1 4 Mr 11. E. Edmunds’s EASTERLY, aged, 9.1 2 3 Mr F. S. Easton’s br g TE UA, 4yrs, 10.9 ••• 5 Also started : Miss Ilushabye 10.6, Alon Roi 9.3, Toxmiss 9.0. Three lengths; head. Time, 2.14. AIAIDEN PLATE, of £SO; second horse

£lO, and third £5. Weight 8.9. Six

furlongs. 5 Air J. C. Kennedy’s b g FULL THROTTLE (Cockpit—Meritorious),

3yrs ..." ... , 1 7 Mr W. A. Dewar’s br f HARK FORRARD, 3yrs. 2 1 Air K. Lourie’s b g WAR EAGLE, aged 5 Also started : D’Acre, Distiller, Chaste, Hard Times, Royal Guy. A length and a half; half a head. Time, 1.17 1-5.

DANNEVIRKE CUP, of £llO, second horso £22, and third £ll. One mile

and a quarter. 1 Air J. AlclColvie’s b g COPPER KING (Nigger Alinstrel —Trade Wind), 4

yrs, 7.10 1 2 Alossrs Akers and Hughes’s b g CATALOGUE, 3yrs, 8.6 •• 2 3 Air W. J. Woods’s b g CHOPIN, aged, 7.4 5 The only starters. Half a lchgth; five lengths. Time, 2.13. RAKAIATAI NURSERY HANDICAP, of £7O; second horse £l4, third £7. lor two-yehr-oids. Five furlongs. 5 Airs C Haldane’s ch f QUEEN’S PRIDE (Leighton- —Lady Feraj, 7.5 1 2 Air A- F. Symes’s br g BODYLINE, 8.1 2 1 Mr J. P. Coyle’s ch f PA LAI, 7.6 ... 3 Also started: Inveresk 7.7, Flammanon 7.7, Confiscation 7.4, Balbus 7.3, Peggy’s Joy 7.0. , ~ Half a length; a length and a halt. Time, 1.3.

RACING DATE. WOODVILLE’S PROTEST. Exception to the action of the executive committee of the Racing Conterence in allotting the date rendered vacant by the Poverty Bay Club (Aiay 26) to the Stratford Racing Club, which is outside the Hawke’s Bay nietrojiolitan area, was voiced at a meeting of stewards ol the Woodville District Jockey Club this week. The present (Mr W. H. Gaisford) said that ho was not aware of any rule regarding the matter, but jt had always been an understood thing that when a date fell due the clubs in that area should have the first option of claiming the date for racing. If it >vas not wanted, then the dale was allotted to a club in another area. In reply to a question, the president explained that when the date became vacant the Hawke’s Bay District Committee had invited applications from local clubs, and Woodville had applied. The reply had later come from the executive committee that Woodville already had six days’ racing, which was considered sufficient.. This, said the president, was most unfair. It was at the request of the Dannevirke Racing Club that Woodville had granted the use of the course for the revival meeting. Woodville was merely trying to help a sister club, and the two days were not Woodville’s racing- dates, but the Dannevirke Club’s. , • . The secretary said that the advice from the executive committee had come to hand on February 8. _ . The president said that Wairoa Racing Club had applied for the vacant date as well as Woodville. Some years ago the dates had been apportioned to the different metropolitan areas by a commission, and there had then been a general reshuffle. Apparently the claims of these two Hawke's Bay clubs for a vacant date in the Hawke’s Bay area had been overlooked in favour of a club in Taranaki area. Mr M. 0. Grainger : A protest may have the effect of making the committee think before another date is allowed to go out of the district. Air Granger moved, and Air R. O. Smith seconded, that the club ask for an explanation why, when a date was vaiant in Hawke’s Bay, and Hawke’s Bay clubs applied for it, the dale should be allotted to a cluh in the Taranaki metropolitan area. . , , , Mr Elder: It should be pointed out that the Dannevirke meeting has nothing to do with Woodville. The niotion was carried unanimously.