AUTUMN RACING

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 90, 15 March 1941, Page 8

AUTUMN RACING

SECOND DAY AT WELLINGTON. PIASTRE SPRINGS SURPRISE. Per Press Association. TRENTHAM, March 15. Tho weather is dull but fine for the second day of the Wellington Racing Club's meeting and the track is again dead. Thero is a large attendance. Results: NGAIO HIGHWEIGHT HANDICAP, of £350. One mile and three furlongs.—2-1 The Monarch, 9.4 (R. J. Mackie) 1; 1-2 Foxettc, 9.10 (A. E. Ellis) 2; 6-6 Moradabad (S Anderson) 9.0 3. Scr.: Filbert. Four lenpihs; one length. Time, 2.28. Boat Song was fourth. PACIFIC HANDICAP, of £SOO. Six furlongs.—4-4 Premature, 9.6 (B. Morris) 1; 9-11 Ring Chief. 8.4 (W. Mudford) 2; 6-5 Gay Genet, 7.12 (R. Howell) 3. Scr.: Transmitter. A length; a neck. Time, 1.15 L Willow Wood was fourth. N.Z. ST. LEGER STAKES, of £503. One mile and .three-quarters.—l Kindergarten, 8.10 (H. Wiggins) 1; 2 Lambourn, 8.10 (P. Atkins) 2. The only starters. Won comfortably bv a length. Time, 3.18 L AUTUMN "HANDICAP, of £750. Eleven furlongs.—s-5 Piastre, 7.8 (S. WaddcM 1; 2-2 The Ring, 7.10. (W. Aitkcn) 2; 4-3 Wardress, 8.6 (B. Morris) 3. Scratched: Serenata, Augment, Happy Ending. Half a head; two lengths. Time, 2.30. Belle Cane wa6 fourth.

CHAMPION HACK HANDICAP, of £SOO. Eleven furlongs.—3-4 Rakanui, 9.3 (A. Ellis) 1; 6-3 Filbert, 7.13 (AV. Mudford) 2; 2-1 King's Toast, 8.8 (L. Ellis) 3. All started. Two lengths; three lengths. Time, 2.25£. Arabic was fourth.