AUSTRALIAN TURF.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 231, 29 August 1938, Page 10

AUSTRALIAN TURF.

WARWICK FARM RESULTS

' WIN FOR STRETTO. . SYDNEY, Aug. 28. Racing results at Warwick Farm on Saturday included: FARM NOVICE HANDICAP, of £2OO. One mile. LIMULET, 8.8 (Munro) 1 WILL ROGERS. 8.4 (O’Sullivan) ... 2 BALDMON, 7.5 (Knox) 3 Fifteen started, including Kow Tow, Glenora Park and Carbon. A length; two lengths and a-half. WARWICK STAKES, of £6000; weight-for-age, with allowances. Seven furlongs. v STRETTO (Bartle) 1 GOLD ROD (McCarten) 2 ROY AT, CHIEF (O’Sullivan) 3 All started. Stretto was the pacemaker when the field settled down from . Buzzalong, King’s Head, Gold Rod, and Royal Chief. Gold Rod challenged Stretto as they neared the post, but Stretto held him off to win by a neck, with Royal Chief a length away third. Time, 1.264. Roorua was unplaced in the Ilobartville Stakes, won by Aeolus from Pandava, and Braidwood Boy was unplaced in the Spring Handicap. WILLIAMSTOWN RACES. UNDERWOOD STAKES TO AJAX. MELBOURNE, Aug. 28. Races at Williamstown resulted: PAISLEY HURDLE RACE, of £3OO. Two miles. —North Cape, 10.12 (Maher), 1; Sphere Khan, 9.6, 2; Pooley Bridge, 3. Nine started. A neck; five lengths. Time, 3.4 L UNDERWOOD STAKES, of £1000; weight-for-age. One mile and 55yds. AJAX, 9.0 (Badger) 1 ENA. 8.9 (Morris) 2

LORD WINDBURRA, 7.8 (Elliot) ... 3 Nine started, including Elanage. Great interest attached to the race owing to the meeting oT Ajax and The Trump, but Ajax took charge at the end of a furlong and was never head« 3. The Trump finished 6ixth. A length and three-quarters; a length and a-quarter. Time, 1.42.

AUGUST HANDICAP, of £350. One mile and three furlongs. ROYAL ORDER, 7.5 (Baile.y) 1 ORTELLE’S STAR, 7.12 (Breasley) ' ... 2 LADY KOORINGAL. 7.6 (Flannery) 3 Ten started. Half a neck; half a head. Time, 2.182. Footmark was unplaced in the Truganina Handicap and Pharaoh and Perfect Idea were unplaced in the Manor Welter. TATTERS ALL'S GOLD CUP. BRISBANE, Aug. 28. TATTERSALL’S CUP. of £IOOO, and gold cup £SO. One mile and a-quarter. HASTATE, 8.1 (Briscoe) 3 TOOLOOMBA. 7.7 (Beresford) 2 BUOYANT SON, 7.4 (Neilson) 3 Thirteen started. A neck; three-quar-ters of a Itngth. Time, 2.4*. ADELAIDE GRAND NATIONAL. ADELAIDE, Aug. 28. The following was the result of the GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE. Three miles. PALLBEARER, 9.3 (Smith) ... ... 1 BOUNTY SILVER, 10.1 (Green) , ... 2 NATIONAL DEBT, 9.2 (Ryan) 3 Eight started. Four lengths; a length and a-cruarter. Time, 5.52*.