Wellington Spring Meeting

Northern Advocate, 21 October 1938, Page 11

Wellington Spring Meeting

Sporting

[Per Press Association. Copyright .l WELLINGTON. This Day.

The weather was fine and sunny at the start, but if clouded over during the afternoon, at the Wellington Racing Club's spring meeting, which opened at Trentham yesterday. The track was in ideal spring order, and several horses which might have been scratched had the going been too hard were able to take their place. Tiie totalisator handled £41,100. compared with £35,179 for the corresponding day last year, an increase of £5930,

Rimutaka Handicap, of 300 sovs.; six furlongs.—(3-3) Florence Mills. 9.0, 1; (12-12) Red Cat, 8.4, 2; (17-16) Sporting Gift. 8.9. 3. Twenty-two other starters. Three lengths; three-quarters of a length. Time: 1.13. Wellington Handicap, of 750 sovs.; one mile and three furlongs.—(3-4) Quadroon, 8.4, 1; (5-3) Happy Landing, 7.3, 2; (8-7) Boomerang, 7.9, 3. Seven other starters. Half a head; three lengths. Time: 3.193. Wellesley Stakes, of 600 sovs.; two-year-olds; five furlongs.—(2-3) Beaulivre, 8.7, 1; (6-6) Konneta, 8.2, 2; (3-2) Anopheles, 8.2, 3. Eleven other starters. Two lengths; half a head. Time: 59 seconds. Shorts Handicap, of 450 sovs.; six furlongs.—(lo-10) Alunga, 8.4, and (3-4) Te Hero, 8.5 (dead-heat), 1; (4-3) Gay Chou, 9.5, 3. Eight other starters. Third horse half a head away. Time: I.IIJ. October Handicap, of 300 sovs.; one mile. —(2-2) Accomplice, 8.7, 1; (10-9) Trebor, 8.3, 2; (7-6) Nereus, 8.6, 3. Fifteen other starters. A head each way. Time: 1,414.