Gold Bar Atones For Cup Failure

Northern Advocate, 14 November 1941, Page 7

Gold Bar Atones For Cup Failure

SPORTING

[Per Press Assne'stic:-,. —copyright! CHRISTCHURCH, This Day

The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club continued its spring meeting yesterday. The weather was fine. The totalisator handled £57,959, compared with £52,857 IC/- for the second day last year, an increase of £slOl/10/-. Concluding results - Ellesmere Handicap, of £300: Limit, 4.39; 2 miles.—(s-6) Gold Pot. 24vds„ 1; (9-10) Single Star, 12.vds., 2; (12-12)' King’s Jubilee, 48yds., 3. All started. A neck; 3 lengths. Time. 4.22. Lelivre Handicap, of £400; It. 4 34 - 2 miles.—(3-3) Great Blaze, It.. 1; (2-2) Toceetie, 12yds, 2: (1-1 1 Chatinos, 24yds, 3. All started. Length and a half; three lengths. Time, 4.21. Cllivier Handicap, of £700; limit, 3.36; one mile and five furlongs.—(l-2) Gold Bar, It., l; (2-1) Springfield Globe, It., 2: (3-3) Josedale Grattan. 12yds. 3. Seven other starters. A length; threequarters of a length. Time, 3.27. New Zealand Trotting Derby, of £1200; three-year-olds; in. miles.— (1-1) Pacing Power. 1; (4-4) Integrity. 2; (2-2) Great News, 3. Five other starters. Length and a half; 10 lengths. Time, 3.19 4-5. Sockburn Handicap, of £500; trotters; limit, 3.44; one mile and five furlongs.—(4-4) Lament, 36yds, 1; (3-3) Dark Hazard, 48yds. 2; (6-5) Reception, It., 3. Eight other starters. Half a length-; two lengths. Time, 3.37. Metropolitan Handicap, of £500; limit, 4.31; two miles.—(l-1) Haughty, It., 1; (4-5) Pleasant Guy, It., 2; (5-6) Accountant, 24yds, 3. Eight other starters. A iength; three lengths. Time. 4.23. Clarkson Handicap, of £500; saddle; limit, 2.12;- one mile—(l-1). Gold Bar, It., 1; (2-2) Mankind, It., 2; (3-3) Colonel Grattan, It., 3. Four other starters. Four lengths; length and a half. Time, 2.3 3-5.