Tote Figures Down At Auckland

Northern Advocate, 31 March 1937, Page 9

Tote Figures Down At Auckland

Sporting

Cerne Abbas Takes St. Leger

[Per Press Association. —CooyriyhtA AUCKLAND. This Day.

Exciting finishes were a feature of the concluding day of the Auckland Racing Club's autumn meeting at Ellerslie yesterday. Conditions were excellent. The totalisator handled £30,779, against £53.832 on the second day last year, a decrease of £23.053. The investments for the meeting amounted to £85.766. compared with £102.291 last year, a decrease of £6.523.’ Results;— Autumn Steeplechase, of 350 sovs; about three miles. —(1) Tudor, 11.5, 1; (2) Forest Glow. 9.9. 2; (3) Irish Comet, 9.4 (car. 9.8). 3. Five started. Four lengths; eight lengths. Time —6.1 2-5. Great Northern St. Leger, of 500 sovs; three-year-olds; colts and geldings 8.10. fillies 8.8; one mile and threequarters.— d i Cerne Abbas. 8.8. 1: ( 2) Mandamus. 8.10. 2; (3» Rulette, 8.8. 3. Four started. Half a head; a neck. Time —3.12. Huia Handicap, of 450 sovs; six furlongs.— *l> Whirling. 8.7. 1; (4) Prince Acre, 7.7 (car. 7.7?). 2p. <s> Royal Dance. 8.4 (car. S.4t>, 3. Eleven started. A neck; a head. Time —1.14. Islington Handicap, of 350 sovs: one mile. — 1 5‘ Gay Rose. 8.3. 1; (7' Respectful. 8.7. 2; 16) To Hai. 8.7. 3. Twelve started. Half a length: a neck. Time —1.40 3-5. The jockey, L. Clifford, was fined £lO by the stewards of the Auckland | Racing Club at Ellerslie for failing to fulfil his engagement to ride Saccone j and Thangilamba, the property of Air ] A. E. Pearce.