Sandpiper Should Be Prominent In Forbury Park Sprint

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26903, 15 October 1948, Page 8

Sandpiper Should Be Prominent In Forbury Park Sprint

SPORTING

The Forbury Park Trotting Club’s spring meeting will be concluded to-morrow, with a card of good fields, some of which include fresh horses. There are no divided races, which will no doubt be appreciated by the public. After the rain on Wednesday night the going on the tracks yesterday morning was heavy and most of the horses were worked on the all-weather track without being asked to show anything like their best paces. The track dried out very quickly, however, and the most interesting work-out in the afternoon was that of Lucky Fellow, Belmont Hall. Whipster and Chamfer, who speeded up over the Ust halfmile of a mile and a-half to come home in lmin 4 3-ssec. The trotters Swanee River and Dan Martin went a mile' and ahalf, the last half in lmin 5 3-ssec.

Brackets to-morrow will be:—St. Kilda Handicap, Aqua Lady and Black Diamond, High Command and Piquant, Chamfer and French (iold; Churchill Handicap, Gold Weed and Heir Apparent; Royal Handicap, Demetrius and On Approval, Theabelle and Red Herring; Farewell Handicap, Caudray and Henry of Navarre. Among the horses likely to appeal to the public to-mor-row are:— t i 11.0 : Tahuna Handicap. —Tatsydale, Mack Sure, Pay Boy. 11.45: St. Kilda Handicap.— Noble Jack, Aqua Lady-Black Diamond bracket, Perpetua. 12.35; Domain Handicap. —Whipster, Admiral Peterson, Double Dillon. 1.25: President’s Handicap. —Seacraft, Minoru, Dragoman. 2.10; Churchill Handicap. —Dan Martin, Belshazzar, Morning Wings. 3.0 ; Royal Handicap. —Belmont Hall, Demetrius-On Approval bracket, Hall Ace.

3.50: Victory Handicap. —Duncraig, National Velvet, Daisy Gold. 4.40: Farewell Handicap. —Sandpiper, Henry of Navarre-Caudray bracket, Aberhall.