DANNEVIRKE CLUB

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22694, 5 April 1937, Page 7

DANNEVIRKE CLUB

VENUE AT WAIPUKURAU SOHO BEATS LUCULLUS LAD FELICITATION PREVAILS [by TELEGRAM —PRESS ASSOCIATION] HASTINGS, Saturday The Dminevirko Racing Club's Autumn Meeting was held at Waipukurau to-day in overcast weather. The course was good and the attendance satisfactory. Tho totalisator handled £6034, compared with £3013 for the last previous meeting, held in December. ]930. Results: TUKI TUKI HIGH-WEIGHT HANDICAP, Of £80; 1 mile and a distance 2—MARCHING SONG, 10.12 (D. Lamb! 1 S—IDDO, 9.0 (C. Stratton) .. ..2 4—UMPIRE, O.S (S. Anderson) . ..3 Also Started.—7 Tres Sec, 0.12, 1 Count Willonyx, 0.8; 0 Dusky Crown, 3 Ythan, 0.2; 8 Rioghail, 0.0. Three-quarters of a length; a head. Time, I rr. 50 4-ss. MAIDEN RACE, Of £7O; G fur. 4—PARRY, 8.7 (R. Marsh) .. .. 1 2—ASSET, 5.7 (J. Walsh) . . . . 2 I—KING'S HOPE, 8.7 (S. Anderson) . 3 Also Started. —3 Clavcrcourt, 8.7. Two lengths; three lengths. Time, lm 16s. WAIPUKURAU HACK CUP, Of £130; I'A miles 2—SOHO. 0.3 (P. Atkins) . . .. 1 4—LUCULLUS LAD, 0.0 (F. Mullins) 2 3—TAREHA, 8,1 (C. I'. Sheild) .. 3 Also Started.— C> Tycoon, 0.0: 1 Wananga, 5.7; 5 Skyway, 7.12; 7 Lady Wessex, 7.7. Length and a-half; neck. Time, 2m Bs. RUAHINE HANDICAP, Of £80; O fur. 3—HUNTER'S MORN, 0.11 (S. Anderson) t 7—HINEPIT, 7.0 (R. Marsh) .. .. t 2—NEREUS, 9.1 (11. Young) .. ..3 Also Started:—l Fossicker, 8.13; 0 Quake, 8.10; :> Moliua, 7.13; S Royal Solo, 4 Jay Bird, 7.7. Dead-heat for first; third horse threequarters of a length away. Time, lm 15s. JUVENILE HANDICAP, Of £75; two and three-year-olds; 5 fur.' 1 —FELICITATION, 9.1 (C. P. Sheild) 1 3—AIRINI, 8.(5 (H. Callahan) .. ..2 7—WINITANGI, 8.0 (B. Stowe) .. 3 Also Started.—2 Money Raid, 0.1; 4 Asset, 8.7; 5 Tullamore, 7.10; 0 Golden Memory, 8 Mary Rose, 0 Kalika, 7.7. Two lengths; length and a-half. Time, lm Is. PRESIDENT'S HANDICAP, Of £100; 7 fur. I—PASSION FLOWER, 0.5 (H. Callahan) .. .. .. .. .. l 3—BLUE GARTER, 8.2 (P. Atkins) .. 2 4—PLATO, 0.5 (A. Jenkins) . . 3 Also Started.—2 Gasman, 8.3; 5 Wasteland, 8.0. Neck each way. Time, lm 28s. -

AUTUMN HANDICAP, Of £BS; 1 mile. 2 —TRACTILE, 7.13 (S. Anderson) .. 1 I—AGOG, 8.6 (C. P. Slieild) .. ..2 4—TRAILER, 7.7 (R. Marsh) .. .. ,3 Also Started. —5 Grey Molly, 7.13; G Recitation, 7.11; 8 Master Hector, 7 Golden Time, 3 Maahanui, 7.7. Head; length. Time, lm 42 l-ss. THE KING'S CUP TETBURY CREATES RECORD BALKAN PRINCE RUNS SECOND (Received April 4. 5.5 p.m.) PERTH, April 4 The New Zealand-bred gelding Cbildstudy, by Psychology, who recently had two wins in Perth, was prominent throughout tho King's Cup yesterday and finished close to the place-getters. Result; KING'S CUP, Of £1000; l'/ a miles TETBURY, H. Leonard's br b 4yrs by High Art—Kaftan, 7.0 (Meyers) 1 BALKAN PRINCE, Winterbottom and \ ail s ch hj, 4yrs, by Gay XiOlhario— Balkan ftose, 9.5 (Brown) . . .. 2 MARINER, W. Bajer's br hj, svrs, by Sea Crest—Swansea, 5.3 (Calli'nan) 3 Eighteen started, including The Riff Childstudy, First Consul. Length and a-half; two and a-quarter lengths, l.iiie, 2in BIV2S, a Western Australian lecord. RAPID RISE TO FAME MESTOR AVON'S SYDNEY CUF» MANANUI AND WOTAN FAIL Li'Jio.w ouit own corkkspondknt] SYDNEY, March 30 The Sydney Cup winner Mestor Avon only three weeks ago was eligible for £35 novice handicaps. Tho Sydney Cup ended a sequence of three wins, the £-1700 first prize being valuable indeed for such a performer. Mestor Avon won because lie was tho best stayer with the pull in the weights, for his 7.3, including a 101b. penalty for Rosehill and Warwick Farm wins, was luxurious. He was in the middle of tho field early, began his run at six furlongs and, hardridden down the straight, was easily the best at the finish. He is a plain and angular brown six-year-old gelding by Poly mestor. Unfortunately, tho morning after the cup, Mestor Avon picked np a nail when at walking exorcise at Randwick.

J. A. Shaw, one of Sydney's most spectacular bookmakers, was the biggest winner over the Sarcherie-Mestor Avon double, but his £II,OOO win was whittled down to half that sum by his outlay on other horses, insuring his cup prospects and his course business on Mestor Avon. However, success for either King's Head or Pamelus in the Poncaster Handicap would have been more profitable.

Although the cup field was regarded as very moderate, the pace was run at such a clipping pace that Wotan's twomile record survived by only half a second. Wotan gave a miserable display, tailing off from the start and staying last all through. His form in the Autumn Plate on Saturday was so poor that generally it was surprising he was started, and oven more surprising that ho was backed to a fairly short price. Once again the Limond horse Mananui was cup favourite, but he was in ono of his surliest moods, and at no stage did ho look like a winner. Ho has been a complete frost lately, and has cost his connections and the publi.c a small fortune.

Altunga beat the weight-for-age horses in a good finish in the Autumn Plate, running down Lough Neagh and holding off Orb. Allunga was in front in the Sydney Cup with a furlong to go, and looked a winner, but ho weakened badly, and missed a place.

R. Skelton, a successful owner and trainer under pony rules, won two races on Master Monday at Randwick. Both of his winners wore two-year-olds, Yashmak taking the Easter Plate, of £IOOO, and Dark Stain, a division of the Wontworth Handicap. Yashvnak is a very lightly-built filly by Veilmond, but much better than she looks, for she beat a good field. SYDNEY SALES LOTS AVERAGE 212 GUINEAS SYDNEY, April -J During the three days of the yearling sales 474 yearlings were sold for ]00,391gn5., an average of 212gns. each, compared with 489 sold last year at an average of loOgns.