COUPLED HORSES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1073, 10 September 1930, Page 12

COUPLED HORSES

MANY AT WANGANUI THREE HACK RACES On account of the totalisator being built to cope with I’ 4-horse combinations. there will be several horse?coupled at Wanganui tomorrow- There are two brackets in the Putiki Hack however, that are due to two owner? each supplying two runners. The list of coupled horses is as follows: Maiden Race. —Guerester and Gran Chaco, Cessation and Laconic, Star of Gold and Arvada. Xightmare and Pandia. Souchong and Solange. Putiki Hack Handicap.—Adventus and Great Lady, Imateagir! and Johneen. Durie Hack Handicap.—Arrowzone and Baskier, Wild Country and Pass On, White Doe and Catherine of Aragon, Pandia and Gold Collector. COMMUNITY OWNED RACEHORSES IN POUND MAINTAINED BY REGIMENTS \ Racing goes on in practically everj country in the world. . The only time one hears of Po.atifl is usually to read in the cables tna Marshal Pilsudski, the Dictator of th&i country, l*as sacked the Cabinet ana that as a result the capital —TNarsav —is in ferment. - , However, in between times they flna the time to be interested in racing, &n° recently the Polish Derby, run over a mile and a-half, for a prize valued aj. £I.BOO, attracted a field of IS runner* The winner, Bejout, traces o*®* English horses on both sides of “Jr ; pedigree. Bejout. previous to his j victory, had won the Polish Two Tnou- | sand Guineas, and is owned by t : officers of the 17th Lancers. In Poland it is the custom for var- ! ious regiments to maintain racuw I stables . Apparently the scheme works ou. : all right: although it would be ratn ■interesting to know what ! happen if one section wanted t* horses to run in a certain race another had other plans. It might a • happen that the bad boys of the res ment wished their champion to n "an easy race.” But, of course, being officers gentlemen, that would be the thing to enter their heads. - AVONDALE MEETING : ACCEPTANCES ON FRIDAY The spring meeting of the Jockey Club is to be held on - „, day and Monday week, Septeni . aV and 22. Acceptances for the nrs close at 5 p.m. on Friday next * the secretary, Mr. A. J. Tm T _— —