Beau Vite Only Favourite To Win Auckland Event

Northern Advocate, 3 January 1941, Page 7

Beau Vite Only Favourite To Win Auckland Event

Sporting

[Special to “Northern Advocate”'] AUCKLAND. This Day.

Double figures were paid by Panoni and Foxsen in successive races on the concluding day of the Auckland Racing Club’s summer meeting yesterday. Favourites again failed to do well. Beau Vite being the only one to succeed. The totalisator handled £77,488 against £71,776 10/ on the final day last year. The investments for the meeting were £406.225, against £369,849 last year.

It was only the fourth occasion on which the total for the meeting has exceeded £400,000, the record being £511,455 10/ in 1920-21. Concluding results:

Auckland Hurdles, of 400sovs.; one and three-quarter miles. —(4-4) Inness Lad, 10.8, 1; (3-3) Loombination, 9.10, 2; (2-2) Small Boy, 12.6, 3. All started. Half .a length; one and a half lengths; Time, 3.15 2-5. Sylvia Handicap, of 400sovs.; two-year-olds; five furlongs.—(s-6) Panoni, 8.2, 1; (12-11) Miss Gay, 7.0, 2; (2-2) Burra Sahib, 8.2, 3. Scratched: Par Avion, Josette. Threequarters length; half a length. Time, 59 3-5. Nathan’s Memorial Handicap, of 1000 sovs.; one and a quarter miles.—(s-5) Foxsen, 7.1, 1; (4-4) Greek Queen, 7.11. 2; (1-1) Cornish, 7.11, 3. Scratched: Kindergarten. A neck; a head. Time 2.5 2-5.

Royal Stakes, of 500sovs.; special weights, with penalties and allowances; six furlongs.—(2-2) Route March,'B.2, 1; (5-5) Kraal, 8.11, 2; (1-1) Pay Roll, 7.13, 3. Four other starters. Two and a half lengths; neck. Time, 1.12.

Clifford Plate, of 75050v5.; weight for age; one and a quarter miles. —(1) Beau Vite, 9.0. 1; (2) Royal Chief, 9.3, 2; (3) Kathbella, 9.0, 3. Only starters. Neck; three lengths. Time, 2.11 4-5. - Bowen Handicap, of 55050v5.; six furlongs.—(s-4) Pirate King, 9.1, 1; (3-3) Palustre, 7.7, 2; (1-1) Lady

Tinkle, 8.11, 3. Eight other starters. Two and a half lengths; length and a half. Time, 1.12. Grey Handicap, of 35050v5.; one mile.—(3-3) Ascot Bloom, 7.13, 1; (1-2-1 Gay Rosette, 9.0, car. 8.7, 2; (2-1) Foxwood, 8.0. car. 7.8, 3. Eighteen other starters. Neck; half a length. Time, 1.38 3-5.