RACING AT WOODVILLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19313, 1 May 1937, Page 7

RACING AT WOODVILLE

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FIRST DAY CONCLUSION (Per Press Association.) WOODVILLE. hist night. The first, day id' the Dannevirke Racing l'lull’s meeting was held al Wondvillc today. The weather was cold, with a fine rain. There was a satisfactory at tendance, the course was excellent, ami the going good. The totalisator handled £10.870. compared with £5540 last year, an increase of £5321. Details ul llu" day's cum hiding events are: Akilo Handicap. Lone Haider (M il limns). 1; 2 lluntelle (Atkins), 2: 4 Red Manlred i Burgess), 3. Scratched: limiting Mars, Elammarion. Hunter's Morn, I’dygain. t'ollodinn. Won by hall a head: two lengths between second and third. Time, 1.14 35. Tahoraitc Handicap. 5 Diamond Cut tor (Wilson), 1; 3 Race Call ((. lilTnrd), i\ 2 .Jazz Bov (Morris). 3. Scratched : N’ereus, Stinger. Winsore. Royal Soho. \Von by two lengths; a neck between second and third. Time, 1.14 2-5. . Oringi Handicap.—4 Tractile (Anderson). 1 : '8- Kentucky' Song (Sargent),"2 3 l.e (band (,Shields), 3. Scratched: Laggard. Won by half a length; two lengths between scmml and third. Time. 1.58 3 5.

NEW BETTING IDEA

NOVELTY IN ENGLAND The latest betting novelty has been introduced by a leading bookmakiiig firm in England. Clients are invited to place correctly the first two or three horses in specified races, and the odds are calculated by multiplying the starting prices, of the horses selected.

Thus, when a punter correctly names the first two horses in a race, and they both start at 10 to 1, he receives 100 tu 1 for his monev.

These bets are all-in, but (he punfei can inquire by telephone whether the horses he wishes to nominate are actual starters. Certain restrictions are made, however. Stakes are limited to £5 on placing the first two, and £3 on placing the first three ttt an ordinary race.

A (fraud National entrant. Sugar Loaf, the property of Mrs. 11. Stubbs, wife of a farmer, was bought at auction for l4gns. The first bid was a “fiver" ! The horse has repaid her, with interest. He has been placed 11 times this season, and in January won a race worth £B3.

It is a far cry from the Show ring to the raceconr.se and very few horses have won honours at Loth. Don Bradman, a chestnut gelding by Irawaddy-Carmin-etta, however, was a champion hunter and winner of many other prizes in the show ring, heforo he was put to racing. Later he ran successfully in pnint-lo-points, and at the 1936 brand .National meeting won the Liverpool Foxhutiters" .Steeplechase. Last November he dead heated with Dehineige in the Grand Sef ton Steeplechase.—. Sporting and Drama : ic.