SPORTING NEWS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11402, 22 March 1930, Page 3

SPORTING NEWS

W AIM ATE MEETING. Electric Telegraph —Press Association WAIMATE, Luot Night. The Wa.imate Racing Club's annual meeting was favoured with fine weather and there was a good attendance The track was firm. The tote handled £'9578 10s, against £1.0,569 IQs last year. Results:— Sfudholme Hurdles: 1 Gala Day 1, 2 Gayotna. 2, 3 Oriflamb 3. Won by two lengths; one and a-h'cli lengths Time, 2.58 1-5. Trial Plate: 3 Fair Money 1. -5 Kentish Lady 2.2 Audience 3, Won by two lengths each wav. Time, 1.1-i 4-5 Wa.imate Cup : 3 Tardy 1. 5 Mount Boa 2,2 Stealth 3. Taboo took the lead from a good start from Tardy. King Balboa. Stealth and Mount Boa, but Tardy with Mount Boa. a length behind, moved up at the back straight and they were never displaced,. Mount Boa reduced the distance to a head in an exciting finish, Stealth finishing third, half a length behind. Time, 2.8 2-5. President’s Handicap: 1 Arrowmii 1, 5 First Raid 2. 3 Wig Wag 3. Won by three- lengths; one length. Time, 1.3 3-5. Waitangi Hack: 2 Haze 1- 1 Quin* opal 2. I Crossbow 3. Won by a length; half a length. Time, 1 11 2-5. Hirdwood fell on entering the straight, but his jockey v.a 5 uninjured. Steward's Handicap: 1 Topere 1, 5 Honeycomb 2, 4 Impertinence 3. Won bv a length: two lengths Time, 1 28 2-5. COMMENDATION AND NIGHT MARCH. SYDNEY, Match 20. Tho New Zealand racehorse;. Commendation, pulled up lame after a gallop at Rand wick to-day and hi® iorelegg are causing his trainer anxiety. It- is not known whether the trouble is temporary but the next lew days will settle the question. Night March has been accepted for the Hawkebury Autumn Hand«cap, of one mile and a-quarter, at Moorfield next Saturday. Hi s weight is 10.7. This will be his first race since liis arrival. HECTOR GRAY .MARRIED. Hector Gray, the well-known jockey, wais married in Wellington on W ednesday to Mrs Hay, a daughter of Airs and the late Air R. Patterson, well-known in the racing world during his tune a.s the owner of that good horse Solution. Tho family’s .present to- Air Gray wa s the late Mr Patterson’s gold chronometer, a valuable timepiece, which MiGray will find useful in his profession. Mr and, Air® Gray left for Auckland by the- Limited, express, and will join the U 1 iiuaror. there- to-day, on route for Sydney. AL Gray lias received a- cable message from W. Booth, one of Sydney ’s lead ng trainers, who has 28 horses in work, staling that there, sccnis to h<» a reasonable chance of his receiving hi.s riding ticket there.