ROSEBERY RACE MEETING

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1933, Page 7

ROSEBERY RACE MEETING

NEW ZEALANDERS’ SUCCESSES. REAPPEARANCE OF AMMON RA. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 9.30 p.m. Sydney, Aug. 16. At the Rosebery races to-day the chief results were: — _ .■ Flying Welter Handicap (first division): Movie Star, 9.5 (T. Webster) 1; Greenline, 11.0 (Pike), 2; Martand, 8.7 (Smith), 3. Thirteen started. Won- by two lengths, a length and a half between second and third. Time, Im. 25Js. Flying Handicap: Topical, 8.7 (Weiss), 1; Dermid, 8.11 (Cook), 2; Limarch, 7.12 (Bartie), 3. Fourteen started, including Ammon Ra, who was having his first race of the year and looked like a winner, but faded away a furlong from home. Topical greatly surprised everyone by winning by a length. Onlookers of this. race saw real class reminiscent of Randwick meetings. Limarch was a length away third. Ammon Ra, ridden by McCarten, was fourth. Time, Im. 145., which equals the course record. The New Zealander Prince Pombal ran third in the second division of the Three and Four-year-old Handicap. Rosebery Handicap: Fairway, 9.0 (R. Reed), 1; Samover, 7.4 (Simpson), 2; Prince Morbeth, 7.5 (Knox), 3. Thirteen started.-Won by a neck, a length and a half between second and third. Time, 2m. 9is.