TIMARU RACES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 439, 21 May 1937, Page 3

TIMARU RACES

Milford Wins South Canterbury Handicap Press Association —Copyright. Timaru, May 20. The South Canterbury Jockey Club's ■winter meeting opened at Washdyke to-day under favourable conditions. The track was in good order, although holding after recent rain. The attendance was good. The totaiisakor handled £:10,497, against £7259 on the corresponding day last yelar. Results:— LEVELS HURDLE HANDICAP, of £l2O. One mile and a-half. 2/2 HUNTING BAG (A. Stove) .. 1 8/10 LAST LINK 2 1/1 GIGGLESWICK 3 All started. Won by a head, four lengths between second and third. Time, 2.49. CLAREMONT HACK HANDICAP, of £l2O. Six furlongs. 3/2 DOUBLE GIFT (J. Jennings) 1 9/9 PRINCE FLANEUR 2 2/2 NOLANA 3 Scratched: Unseen, Merry De Vai. Won by two lengths, a length and a-half between second and third. Time, 1.16 1-5. OPIHI TROT HANDICAP, of £l2O. > One mile and a half. 8/9 PERULA (McTigue) ....... 1 1/1 WYNAN 2 1/1 TARUNA 3 ■Scratched: Bayard. Won by a neck, ~ six lengths between second and third. Time: 3.33 4-5. , SOUTH CANTERBURY HANDICAP. Of £2OO. One mile and a-quarter. 3/3 MILFORD (A. Messervey) .. 1 7/7 TRIVET 2 1/2 QUEEN OF SONG 3 Scratched: Queen Dorothy, Silver Sight, Araboa. Won by a head; two lengths between second and third. Time, 1.12. CRAIGMORE HACK STEEPLECHASE. Of £l2O. About two miles. 4/3 NOCTURNUS (Stove) .... 1 3/4 POLYDORA 2 9/9 BURGLAR 3 Won by two lengths. Time, 4m 3 3-ss. KING-SDOWN HANDICAP. . Of £l2O. One mile and 35 yards. 1/1 DICTATE (A. E. Ellis) .... 1 3/2 SALIENT KNIGHT 2 4/4 MADE MONEY 3 Won by halt a length. Time, Im 46 3_ss. BEACONSFIELD TROT. Of £125. One and a quarter miles. 7/9 HEATHER QUEEN (Leggett) 1 11/12 LADY SLIPPER .. .. .. 2 8/7 BILL GRATTAN 3 Won by three lengths. Time 2m 54v. SEADOWN HANDICAP. Of £l3O. Six furlongs. 1/1 GREY HONOUR (Wilson) .. 1 2/2 ARABOA 2 8/8 SILVER LARK .....’LL 3 Won by half a length. Time 1m 16 l-ss. Sisterina’s Recovery After Slsterena had torn the muscles of a shoulder in a heavy fall all the Dunedin Winter Meeting last year, it was considered that she was a hopeless case, and one of those vagrant reports that, often do Ithe rounds even announced that she had been destroyed; but now it i s reported from the south ft|hat she It' to make her reappearance shortly on the Riccarton track. She was jumped in a paddock last week and seemed quite all right afterwards. It will be a remarkable ease if she it. able to race again, as her It/rainer, M. Conza, expects.