TO-DAY’S RACES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 234, 31 August 1940, Page 8

TO-DAY’S RACES

COMBINED HUNTS’ MEETING. • BIFORM SCORES AGAIN. Per Press Association. NEW PLYMOUTH, Aug. 31'. Overnight rain made the track soft for the second day of the Combined Hunts’ meeting. The attendance is satisfactory. Results: HACK AND HUNTERS’ HURDLE RACE, of £l2O. One mile and a-half and 100 yards.—2-1 Tolaga (D. Burgess), 1; 5-4 Larwood, 9.0 (Hayes), 2; 3-5 War Lap, 10.4 (Toki), 3. Also started: Kaiwaka 11.9, Car Leaf, One Whetu, Prinihia 9.0. Ten lengths; six lengths. Time, 3.2 2-5. OPUNAKE STAKES HANDICAP, of £llO. Five furlongs.—l-2 Verulam 9.2 (Cleaver), 1; 2-1 Boden Park, 8.7 (Chotc) 2, 14-12 Mansura 8.0 (Atkins). 3. Also started : Abbey King 8.3, Gold Blaze 8.2, Hoapai, Uvedale, Yaltour, Liberation, Vacation, Gold Card, To Monoplane, Teasoff, Merrymecr, Red Myosotis, Glen Birman 8.0. Three lengths; one and a-half lengths. Time, 1.4 3-5 WAIIII HACK HANDICAP, of £l4O. About seven furlongs.—s-6 Autosweep, 8.0 (Goulsbro) 1; 1-1 Eupatrid, 8,11 (Atkins) 2; 4-4 To Ore, car 8.2 (Broughton) 3. Also started: lloeon 8.5, Captain Gale 8.2, Gitana Lass, Alf Bunsby, Stratford, Wavelongth 8.0. Three-quarters of a length; a neck. Time, 1.30. TARANAKI CUP STEEPLECHASE, of £165. About two miles and a-half. —2-1 Biform (D. Burgess) 1, 3-3 Tigrctcrre 10.1 (Rae) 2, 4-4 Lactose 9.4 (F. Cleaver) 3. Also started: Harbour Bar 9.12. Conflagration 9.0, Last Match 9.0. Six lengths each way. Time, 5.10 2-5.