Nuffield Takes A.J.C. Sires Produce Stakes

Northern Advocate, 18 April 1938, Page 9

Nuffield Takes A.J.C. Sires Produce Stakes

AUSTRALIAN TURF

(Received 10 a.m.)

SYDNEY, April 17

The highlight of the opening day of: the Australian Jockey Club's autumn meeting at Randwick yesterday, which was favoured with delightful weather, was Nuffiold’s stylish win in the Sires’ Produce Stakes, turning the tables on Pandava and thus, for the time being, deciding the respective merits of these good colts. The attendance was 67.000, compared with 49,600 last year.

Results:— First Hurdles, of 500 sovs.; about two miles. —Keewong. 9.2. 1; Asblnndo. 9.5, 2; Capaneus. 10.0. 3. Thirteen starters. Three-quarters of a length: half a length. Time; 3.41. Autumn Plate, of 1500 sovs.; weight-for-age; H miles.—Allunga, 9.3. 1; Sarcherie, 9.1, 2; Genetout. 9.0, 3. All started. Time: 2.31.',. A.J.C. Sires’ Produce Stakes, of 35C0 sovs.; two-year-old colts and fillies; seven furlongs.—Nuffield. 8.10, 1; Fort Regal, 8.10, 2;' Pandava, 8.10, 3. All started. Time: 1.25;}. Doncaster Handicap, of 2600 sovs.; one '’mile.—Hamurah, 7.9, 1; King’s Head, 8.13, 2; Buzalong, 8.6, 3. Heroic Faith was scratched. Time: 1.37 i,

A.J.C, St. Leger, of 1500 sovs; three-year-old colts and fillies. 1:/ milesJohn Wilkes, 8.10, and Cathartes. 8.10, dead-heat, 1; Silenus. 8.10. 3. All started, Time: 3.4.

Vaucluse Handicap, of 700 sovs.: seven furlongs.—First division; Herarde, 9.1, 1; Palarang, 8.4, 2; Warrawing, 8.7, 3. Thirteen started, including Rival Hit. Half a neck; half a head. Time: 1.255. Second division; Tickle. 8.12, 1; Red Thespian, 9.2, 2; Sedunum, 9.4, 3. Thirteen started, including Kinsfolk, Length; three-quarters of a length. Time: 1.26.