AUSTRALIAN TURF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18674, 6 April 1935, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN TURF

GALLOPS AT RANDWICK SYDNEY, April 4. The Rosehill meeting on Saturday will throw a certain amount of light on the form of candidates for the Australian Jockey Club’s fixture. Good class horses are engaged. Training this morning at Randwiek, Legatee created a good impression, running three furlongs in 3Ssec. Arachne and Belfast did the best halfmile of the morning, 504sce. King March led Contact over seven furlongs, which were covered in 1.324. Sir John and Rlixtea went four furlongs in 51 sec., Homer two in 20, and Winooka live in 1.5 j.

Closing Time is very lame, ami it is practically certain that he will be a non-starter in the Doncaster Handicap. 'The Queensland horse Soft Step was in a Iml way after working. [Hilling up lame.

At Victoria Park Peter Pan went iv furlongs in 2.17 Ad. Moorfield and lournal did a good gallop.

THE ASCOT SMASH HOW ACCIDENT HAPPENED SVDNKV, Mardi 28. Sydney’s worst lacing smash at Ascot ju Wednesday took toil of the lives of three of 10 fallen horses, but by a series of miracles all the riders escaped really serious injury. It was an appalling accident, for when the field of 14 was racing for the turn The Motorist fell when in the lead and in the twinkling of an eye only four horses were left standing. It was an accident of amazing swiftness, first the horses were racing and then they had disappeared as into a pit. The spectators jumped the fences and really impeded the police and ambulance officials. The last-named were rciniorced a few minutes later by the local ambulance, for the officer in charge had heard of the accident on the wireless. Without waiting for further advice lie sent plenty of assistance and the hoys were hurried off to the various hospitals. The horses killed were The Motorist, Labor Girl, and Juanita. The two firstnamed were past their best, and Juanita was just a moderate. Most of the jockeys hardly knew what had happened and were unable to give coherent accounts of the mishap, apart from the fact that Lightfoot was sure The Motorist fell without any apparent cause and the others fell over him.