ASHBURTON TROTS
BILLY SEA'S SURPRISE (Special to the Herald.) OHRISTCHITRCH, this day. The Orphau-Glenclg bracket (£691 10s) and Sunshower carried the eon-1 fidenee of backers in the Ashburton! Trotting Cup yesterday. Billy ,Sca ■ could muster only £57 10s on his chauco. Omaha led out from the; Orphan, Glenelg, and Jolly Chimes., Passing the stand Omaha still had, charge from Glenelg, Orphan, Lady j Cello, Huon.Denver, .lolly Chimes, and Lingficld. In the back tho field bunched, and when the straight was J reached Orphan, Billy Sea, Jolly Chimes, Athlone, Sunshower, and., Pluto were racing in close order. It > was a thrilling race home, and Billy j Sea fought on gamely to win by two; lengths from Athlone, with the back 1 marker, Pluto, a length away in third ; place. Sunshower, Orphan, and Jolly , Chimes were close up in a fast-run ■ race. .Billy Sea was in N. C. Prince's . stable, for which he won a mile saddle j race at the recent metropolitan meet- j iug a week or two ago. He was re- j turned to his old trainer, L. Stobart, whom he rewarded with a handsome j dividend, approaching half a century, j
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17143, 27 December 1929, Page 9
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