AMBERLEY CLUB’S MEETING

Southland Times, Issue 23502, 7 May 1938, Page 10

AMBERLEY CLUB’S MEETING

ACCEPTANCES FOR TODAY GLENOGIL FAVOURED IN CHIEF EVENT The single-pool system of betting will operate at the Amberley Racing Club’s meeting today, which has drawn excellent fields. The chief event, the Amberley handicap, has drawn a field of only five and the favourite is almost certain to be Glenogil, a smart filly who recently raced well at Ellerslie. Davolo is asked to concede her 271 b and he is likely to find this task beyond him. Linguist has been racing well enough while Mungatoon has recent winning form in his favour. The following may show up:— NOVICE STAKES.—GiIIie, Night Hawk, Dividend. BRACKENFIELD HIGHWEIGHT HANDlCAP.—Acceptable, Courtyard, Owlsgleam. TEVIOTDALE TROT HANDICAP.— Wee Potts, Acuity. GLASNEVIN HANDICAP.—PeImet, Golden Chest. STARKY MEMORIAL HANDICAP. —Shirred Ribbon, Rabble. SEADOWN HANDICAP.—Cocksure, Financiere, Lady Leigh. ■ KOWHAi TROT HANDICAP.—Wee Potts, Taiki, Rerekouhua. AMBERLEY HANDICAP.—GIeno.giI, Davolo. The acceptances are as follows:—

3.25 p.m. KOWAI TROT HANDICAP, £lO4. Class 3.5. One mile and a-quarter. Acuity It Rose Potts it Boreas It Straight It Chaise It True Beau It Coleridge It True Glow It Last Hand It True Pronto It Master Tommy It Wee Potts It Our Dorrie It Taiki It Rerekouhua It Green Ranger It Red Lap It 4 p.m. AMBERLEY HANDICAP, £l2O. Nine furlongs.

Mr Martin H. Tims, Te Awamutu. Mr Standfast will do stud duty in New Zealand for the first time next season. Already a number of noted brood mares owned in both the North and South Islands, have been booked to him. Desert Chief Mr G. J. Barton is the type of man we want to see in racing. He puts a lot of money into horses each year, being a great patron of trotting as well as of galloping. For that reason (says a Melbourne writer), I do not want to hurt his feelings, but I owe a duty to the many punters who are Globe readers. All and every one of them, including myself wish that Desert Chief had never left the country in which he was foaled. A good judge like Eric Connolly declared for Desert Chief in the Caulfield Cup of 1936, many weeks before the race. “Wait till you see this fellow on a firm track,” said the king of the turf. Desert Chief was to be seen coming home in races with a burst of speed that presaged victories in topnotch company. Punters have waited in vain for the five-year-old Chief Ruler horse to come good. He gave encouragement at Williamstown and Epsom, and was recently labelled the bet of the year for the Pozieres Handicap at Mentone. He failed in the weakest handicap field seen in Melbourne for years. If Desert Chief was my property he would be turned out with a tag on his tail, “Back to the cactus or the desert.”

11.45 a.m. NOVICE STAKES, £100. Special weights. Dividend 8 7 Plumage 8 7 Gillie 8 7 Rangemore 8 7 Gold Coat 8 7 Ruling Star 8 7 Knight The Wrecker 8 7 Commander 8 7 Restrain 8 7 Merry March 8 7 Gay Parade 7 12 Papernilla Princess 8 7 Night Hawk Scuffle 7 7 12 12 Margaret 8 7 12.20 p.m. BRACKENFIELD HIGHWEIGHT HANDICAP £100. Seven furlongs. Paper Note 10 10 Grampian 9 6 Acceptable 10 3 Dropped Catch 9 6 Courtyard 10 0 Owlsgleam 9 5 Drinkup 9 13 Bright Prospect 9 2 Supreme Court 9 8 William Rufus y 0 12.55 p.m. TEVIOTDALE TROT HANDICAP. £104. Class 3.43. mile and a-half. Acuity It Rose Potts It Chaise It Straight It Muriel Axworthy It True Glow It Master Tommy It Wee Potts It Pamelus It 1.40 p.m. „ . GLASNEVIN HANDICAP. £100. Seven furlongs. Pelmet 8 11 Great Star 7 7 Wine Card 8 4 Golden Chest 7 7 Acceptable 7 13 2.15 p.m. STARKY MEMORIAL HANDICAP. £130. One mile and a-quarter. Happy Night 9 0 Shirred Ribbon 7 8 Rabble 8 4 Gillie 7 7 Drinkup, 8 1 Settlement 7 7 Maroha 7 13 2.50 P.m. SEADOWN HANDICAP, £100. Six furlongs. Cocksure 9 1 Flame Queen 7 7 Financiere 8 13 Passenger 7 7 Great Bramble 7 10 Papernilla 7 7 Lady Leigh 7 10 Glenacre 7 7 Owlsgleam 7 7 Gay Lyric 7 7

Davolo 9 6 Glenogil 7 7 Linguist 8 3 Rabble 7 7 Mungatoon 7 9