Glory, 7.7. Buonarotti Boy Wins Metropolitan

Northern Advocate, 5 October 1948, Page 7

Glory, 7.7. Buonarotti Boy Wins Metropolitan

SYDNEY, Tue. Bleak southerlyweather, rain and a heavy track reduced the crowds attending Randwick yesterday for the second day of the Australian Jockey Club’s Spring Meeting. Finishing brilliantly, an outsider, Buonarotti Boy, won the Metropolitan Handicap from Karachi and Kerry Lad. The hot favourite, Dark Marne, found his weight too heavy for the sodden track, and finished eighth.

Results: GIMCRACK STAKES, of £2000: two-year-old fillies; weight 8.5, with penalties; 5 fur.—Rhumba, 8.5 (E. Fordyce), 1; Favour, 8.5 (N. Selhvood). 2; Pantomime, 8.5 (J. Thompson), 3. Eighteen started. Half a length; three lengths. Time: 1.04. SHORTS HANDICAP, of £1170; 6 fur.— Comedy Prince, 8.12 (W. Briscoe). 1: Cognac, 7.8 (R. Selkrig), 2; Earl Pentheus, 8.12 (E. Doon), 3. Seven started. Three lengths; half a neck. Time: 1.11V4. KIA ORA HANDICAP, of £1130; mares, four-year-old and upw'ard; 1 mile.—Shading. 9.9 (H. Badger), 1; Nell Gwynn, 7.12 (G. Moore), 2; Raceme, 7.9 (A. Podmore), 3. Thirteen started. Two lengths; three lengths. Time: 1.391. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP, of £6700: 1 mile and 5 fur.—Buonarotti Boy, 7.10 (E. Doon), 1; Karachi. 7.12 (W. Cook), 2; Kerry Lad (N.Z.), 8.0 (G. Moore), 3. Nineteen ‘ started. Two lengths and a half; neck. Time: 2.463. GEORGE MAIN STAKES', of £2075: weight-for-age; 1 mile. —De La Salle, 8.9 (J Thompson). 1; Riptide. 8.0 (G. Moore), 2; Stamen, 9.0 (C. Maddock), 3. Five started. Three lengths; four lengths. Time: 1.381.