SPORTING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 243, 11 September 1935, Page 8

SPORTING

WANGANUI TRACK WORK

Per Press Association. WANGANUI, Sept. 11. A cold southerly gale made conditions unpleasant for training operations this morning, but no rain fell overnight and the tracks have dried up and are fast. Most of the work vvas confined to sprintings Slippery running the fastest half-mile in 48 4-5 secs, but Passion Fruit, Hororata, Bun Fight. Curie, Grand Score, Galilee, Bogorrab. Gallic, and Lady Ruler all went well.

Before breakfast Spiral, Rust, Moquette, Imposture, and Entail were given useful work. Bun Fight ran six furlongs in Imin 16 2-ssecs, the half-mile taking 50secs. Horoi-nta did a amilar task in lmin 15 2-osecs.

Lady Ruler and Gallio ran three furlongs in 37sec., the latter doing it well.

Flit Acre and Calisto ran half a mile in 50 l-ssec., Galilee taking 50 4-5.

Grand Score ran five furlongs in 1.3 3-5.

After the interval Haut Monde did five furlongs in 1.5 1-5. Arouse and Carfex ran half a mile in 49 4-osee., the latter going very well.

Passion Fruit and Hunting Cat ran half a mile in 49 1-5, the former going very attractively. Curie was better than Mesurina over five furlongs in 1.3 2-5. Going Gay ran the last five furlongs of a six furlongs track in 1.9. Slippery ran half a mile in 48 4-5, all out.

Royal Banquet covered six furlongs in 1.16 3-5. doing it well. Begorrah covered half a mile in 50 3-ssec. II Duce and Essex three in 38 see., Thane and Happy Landing taking 39sec\ L. G. Morris arrived yesterday with Middle. Entheos. and Limulus. They were given useful work. The weather promises to he fine tomorrow.

The Wanganui Jockey Club’s starting times for its meeting on Thursday are:—l2.3o, 1.10, 1.55, 2.34, 3.15, 4.Q, and 4.45 p.m.

THE ST. LEGER

AMENDMENTS TO FIELD

Received September 11, 9.35 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 10.. In the St. Leger Stakes Jones will ride Flashbye, and Weston, Pry 11. Baodai and Bartholdi have been withdrawn.

The jockey Fox, who was booked to ride Bahrain, received concussion and it is feared that he may have fractured his rilis when a horse fell with him during a race to-day. The Aga Khan has decided that Smirke shall ride Bahrain, and unless something unforeseen occurs will not run.

WRECKER’S HANDICAP

NOT AFFECTED BY DEAD HEAT

HANDICAPPER’S VIEW

Per Press Association

CHRISTCHURCH, Sept. 11. When Wrecker dead-heated for first place in the Metropolitan Handicap at the benefit trotting meeting, it was assumed he would receive the customary penalty of 12vds., which would place him on 4min. 27see., and he would thus become eligible to compete in the next New Zealand Trotting Cup; but the handicapper (Mr G. Paul, jtinr.) has taken into account the small amount of stake money that AVrecker and Roy Spec earned through their dead heat, and as the money is equivalent only to a second prize in races in which AVrecker usually competes, and for which he cannot be penalised, Mr Paul has considered it prudent not to penalise either AA’reeker or Rev Spec.

The amount of the prize monev for the Metropolitan Handicap was £2OO, of which £2O went to the third horse, thus leaving £IBO to be divided between AVrecker and Rey Spec.