AUSTRALIAN RACING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 4, 30 December 1912, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN RACING.

Sydney, December 29. At Sydney TattersalTs meeting the: Hurdle race resulted:—Askome T, King Lucre 2, Kairoma 3. Five started. Won by six lengths. Time, 3min 50|sec. Rutter -fell and ins injuries necessitated his destruction. Carrington Stakes: Ruby Hampton 1, A u war a Eliya 2, Hot Air 3. Thirty started. There was a line finish among half a dozen. Won by half a lengtu, with a head between second and third. Time, Train 15£soc. Moonee Valley Welter.—All Good 1, Advantage 2, Tenterhook 3. Won by a length. Twelve started. Time, Train IGfsec. Perth, December 29. The Perth Cup, run on Saturday, resulted: Sparkle I,' Maori Lad 2, Swagger 3. Eighteen'horses started. Won by a length, with a head between second and third. Time, 3min 32 T-Seec. : AUCKLAND RACES. Auckland, December 30. The’ races were continued in fine weather. The course was fast and the attendance large. Results:— , Bowen Handicap.—-Worcester 1, Peg 2, Parawai 3. Scratched: Almeida, Anniplione, Toreador, Lady Elgiva. Worcester was in front all the-way, whining by a, short head. Time, Imin 15 2-ssec. Islington Plate.—Bobrikoff 1, Blcriot 2," Bon, Reve 3. These were the only starters. Bon Reve made the running toi the home turn, where Bleriot and Bobrikoff came up, the latter winning by a head in I rain 3d 4-ssec—a New Zealand record. Ponsofiby Hurdles.—Golden Loop 1, Don Quex 2, Miss Explosion, 3. Scratched: Koran. Don Qucx Tod to the last fence when Golden Loop came through .and won easily by T.V lengths. Time, '3rain >l7 2-ssec.

Visitors’ Handicap.—Tact 1, Winning Way 2, Kakama 3. All started. Tact was in front practically all the way and won by three-quarters of a length, half a length'■between second and third. Time, train 3-sscc.

Tho death of tlio well-known trotting. sire Mambrino Abdullah, is reported from New South Wales. Mambrino Abdullah, who was 19 years of age, had a brilliant career in tho

show ring, for the trotting track, winning about 120 races in all, and, since ho went to the stud, ho had served some of the fastest trotters in the Commonwealth, Some of his progeny are Johnson J. 2.17 to the mile; Mambrino Junior, 2.171; Mambrino Dolly, .2.25; and Mambrino Akbar, 2.26; the last-named being the only horse to defeat Denver Huon as a two-year-old,