CANTERBURY PARK TROTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 28, 2 January 1942, Page 6

CANTERBURY PARK TROTS

MANIAN SURPRISES

(Press Assn.) CHRISTCHURCH. Jan. 2. The Canterbury Park Trotting Club » meeting postponed from yesterday on account of rain is being held to-day on a good track. Results:— INTRODUCTORY HANDICAP, of £250- 3.35 class. One mile and a halt.—r-a Manian, 24yds bhd (Gallagher) 1; 7-S Pcgast..; Bay, scr, 2; 5-6 Listowcl, scr, 3. bcr: Great Surprise. Half a length. Time, 3.23 RAILWAY HANDICAP, of £250; 2.14 class. One mile—9-9 Subsidy, scr (VV. Doyle) 1; 2-3 Happy Locanda, scr, Z; S-o Guucase, scr, 3. Time 2.9 2-5. LYITELTON HANDICAP, of £2o0; 3.30 class. One mile and five furlongs-4-2 Purveyor, scr (G. McKendry) 1: 2-4 Golden River, scr, 2; 1-1 Manpower, 12yds bhd, 3. T C°™RBURY HANDICAP of £1000; 4.29 class. Two miles.-6-6 Nelson Eddy, 36vd= bhd (L. Thomas 1; 3-2 bpunfafed Globe, 24yds bhd 2; 9-8 Kenworthy, aavrU hhd 3 Scr- God Bar. A head. 48yd GOI D BAR'S PERFORMANCE. Gold Bar. in his trial against time, paced one mile in 1.59 3-5 at Addington to-day. Urns being the first New Zealand bred pacer and the second m the bouineni Ilemi.phcre to cover eight furlongs in two minutes or faster. The record ot 1.59 Z-J o Australia and New Zealand is ho.d by Lawn Derby, who was bred, owned, and trained in Australia, Ho took his record at Addington in 1938. ~ , In his effort to-day Gold Bar travel led very fast in the early stages his tunc feu tho first two furlongs being 28 l-sscc. lie was at the half-mile in 58sec and covered six furlongs in 1.27 3-5. At that stage it looked as if Gold Bar would accomp ! <; his mission, but tho winning post omnia time was 1.59 3-5. Although the track had make a good recovery from the recent rain, the footing was not as good as when Lawn Derby took his record over three years ago. ____^_