TODAY’S DUNEDIN FIELDS

Southland Times, Issue 23840, 10 June 1939, Page 10

TODAY’S DUNEDIN FIELDS

Interesting Card For Final Day SOLID SUPPORT FOR STRIP NIGHTCALM IN WINNING FORM The fields for the Dunedin Jockey Club’s winter meeting, which is to conclude at Wingatui today, represent the best class available while numerically they are stronger than was anticipated earlier in the week. Much interest was being shown in a clash between Black Banner and Gold Wren in the Dunedin Steeplechase, but it was reported from Dunedin on Thursday that a decision had been made not to race Black Banner. If this is the case the Dunedin Steeplechase should be a bloodless victory for the Otago Steeplechase winner, Gold Wren. Form for today’s meeting has been well disclosed but the racing promises to be as interesting as, if not more so than, during the first two days. The King George Handicap, the leading flat event on today’s card, is one of the most open races of the meeting. The probable favourite is Nightcalm but others in Thermidor, Spanish Lad and Passaform are all capable of making a great race of it. A report from Dunedin last evening stated that the track would again provide firm going. The win-and-place system of betting will operate and the first race will start at 11.30 a.m. Form horses are:— GREENFIELD HURDLES: Fireguard, Pink Robe, Recollection. ELECTRIC HANDICAP: Airdrie, Royal Style, Strathalbyn. EMPIRE HANDICAP: Strip, Rebel Mate, StraightdeL DOMAIN HANDICAP: Spearthrust, Astral Flash, Green Boa. DUNEDIN STEEPLECHASE. Black Banner (if starter), Gold Wren, El Caballo. KING GEORGE HANDICAP: Nightcalm, Thermidor, Spanish Lad. TAINUI HANDICAP: Lazybones, Sir Hugh, Silver Streak. ALD WORTH HANDICAP: Merry Simon, Doctor Duthie, Green Boa. The acceptances are as follows: 11.30 a.m. GREENFIELD HURDLE HANDICAP, £175. One mile and a-half.

Recollection 11 5 Vantoon 9 5 Fireguard 10 12 Ballad 9 3 Pink Robe 10 10 Baitruin 9 0 Last Link 9 9 Bad News 9 0 Mount Vai 9 7 Drlnkup 9 0 Metal Bird 9 6 12.8 p.m. ELECTRIC HANDICAP, £120. Six urlongs. ( Black Bard 8 10 Ascent 8 5 Airdrie 8 9 Lady Constant 8 5 Royal Style 8 7 Freecourse 8 4 Pilot’s Love 8 6 Strathaibyn 8 3 Neptune 8 6 Blue Dawn 8 3 Rosenor Lass 8 5 Lights Out 8 3 Lower Deck 8 5 Georgia 8 3 Colonel French 8 5 12.46 p.m. EMPIRE HANDICAP. £175. Six furlongs. Rebel Mate 9 10 Flagman 8 1 Top Row 8 12 Roseman 8 1 Strip 8 7 Skyrena 8 0 Phalanx 8 6 Astaire 8 0 Fleet Street 8 6 Adina 8 0 Straightdel 8 4 Peacock 8 0 1.24 p.m. DOMAIN HANDICAP. £175. Seven furlongs. Disband 9 5 Hunting Chorus 8 12 Combat 9 4 Spearthrust 8 10 Kippen 9 1 Epic 8 8 Astaire 9 0 Astral Flash 8 0 Lady Sincere 9 0 Silver Choir 8 0 Green Boa 8 13 2.2 p.m. DUNEDIN STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP, £250. About two miles and a-quarter. Black Banner 12 10 Slayer 9 0 Gold Wren 11 9 Rifle Range 9 0 El Caballo 10 1 La Boca 9 0 Chile 9 0 Red Terror 9 0 2.40 p.m. KING GEORGE HANDICAP, £200. One mile. Nightcalm 9 7 Valantua 7 13 Thermidor 9 2 Petersham 7 12 Second Innings 8 13 Sir Hugh 7 11 Passaform 8 9 Kight Hawk 7 9 Araboa 8 7 Balmenter 7 7 Spanish Lad 8 2 Auctor 7 7 Roy Bun 8 0 Palady 7 7 3.18 p.m. TAINUI HANDICAP, £175. Seven furlongs. Silver Streak 9 12 Valantua 8 6 Second Innings 9 5 Sir Hugh 8 4 Lazybones 9 1 Straightdel 8 4 Monipere 9 0 Norseman 8 2 Araboa 9 0 Skyrena 8 0 3.56 p.m. ALDWORTH HANDICAP, £200. One mile and two furlongs and a-half. Bow Street 8 11 Elegy 8 1 Green Boa 8 10 Vanity Queen 8 1 Hunting Chorus 8 10 Drinkup 8 0 Spearthrust 8 8 Astral Flash 8 0 Doctor Duthle 8 3 Sunny Jean 8 0 Merry Simon 8 2 Silver Choir 8 0 Pol Roger 8 1 Lord Puck 8 0