GOLD WREN HAS EASY WIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21127, 29 August 1938, Page 8

GOLD WREN HAS EASY WIN

OTAGO HUNT CLUB CUP By Telegraph—Pre., AMOclatloa DUNEDIN, August 27. The Otago Hunt Club’s steeplechase meeting was held to-day in fine but windy weather. The track was in perfect order. The totalisator handled £1”,453 compared with £14,154/10/- last year. Results. — SEAVIEW HACK HURDLES, Of £145; lli miles 3/3—Mount Vai, 9.1 (Boyle) 1 1/I—Fireguard, 11.7 (Beale) 2 2/2—McHeath, 10.0 (Anderson) .... 3 Also started: 2/2 Delrain 9.11 coupled with McHeath, 4/4 Tautau Maid 9.6, 5/5 Night Scout 9.0. Won by a neck; two lengths between second and third. No time taken. BROCKVILLE TROT, Of £l4O (3.5); li miles 1/1 —Stamboul, scr (Broughton) .. .. 1 2/2 —Royal Chief, scr (P. McKay) .. 2 9/B—Great Joy, scr (Clare) 3 Also started: 5/4 Central Lad scr, 6/7 Parishioner scr, 8/9 Raven’s Wing scr, 13/13 Star Bond scr, 10/10 Tiny Axworthy scr, 7/5 Violet Potts scr, 3/3 Wee Truman scr, 12/11 Hytemoana 12, 4/6 Macgregor 24, 11/12 All Kings 60. Won by a neck; a head between second and third. Times: 3.0, 3.0 2-5, 3.0 3-5. OTAGO HUNT CLUB CUP, Of £235; about 2J miles 2/2—Gold Wren, 11.7 (Murfitt) .. 1 4/4 —Uncle Jim, 9.6 (Pratt) 2 1/1 —Tomcat, 9.7 (Jennings) 3 Also started: 3/3 El Caballo 9.12, 5/6 Golden Glow 9.0, 6/5 Joy Boa 9.0, 7/7 Pallaform 9.0. Won by eight lengths; three lengths between second and third. Time—smin 33 3-ssec. PRESIDENT'S HANDICAP, Of £130; 5 furlongs 8/B—Wynwood, 8.9 (Barclay) 1 5/s—Slayer, 8.0 (Dooley) 2 9/9—Gipsy Fair, 8.6 (Jenkins) .. ..3 Also started: 11/13 Ilythia 9.7, 12/11 Violenta 8.13, 7/6 Compensate 8.11, 4/4 Adina 8.10, 1/1 Donadea 8.8, 10/10 Avctor 8.5, 6/7 Remembo 8.2, 2/2 Withdrawal 8.0, 16/12 Gold Don 8.0, 13/15 Attractive Note 8.0, 17/17 Doubleack 8.0, 14/16 Avenal 8.0, 15/14 Lord Ouyen 8.0, 3/3 Vollock 8.0. Won by three lengths; one and a half lengths between second and third. Time—lmin 3 2-ssec. TALLY-HO HANDICAP, Of £165; 1 mile 3/3—Monipere, 9.3 (Mackie) 1 4/4 —Pink Robe, 7.7 (Cassells) .. .. 2 1/1 —Valantua, 8.7 (Sellers) 3 Also started: 9/9 Milford 9.3, 8/8 Paladino 8.9, 2/2 Janet Gaynor 8.6 and Roseman 7.13, 7/6 Swordstick 7.12, 6/7 Mount Vai 7.7. Won by two lengths; half a length between second and third. Time—lmin 41 3-ssec. WINGATUI TROT, Of £l4O ( 3.43); li miles 5/6—Salalon, 36 (Kerr) 1 3/3 —Royal Chief, scr (McKay) .. .. 2 9/s—Master Potts, 72 (F. Johnson) .. 3 Also started: 4/4 Black Watch scr 10/11 Central Lad scr, 1/1 Gold Bank scr, 8/7 Great Joy scr, 6/8 Parishioner scr, 12/13 Starbond scr, 11/9 Hytemoana 12, 7/10 Macgregor 24, 2/2 Stamboul 36, 13/12 All Kings 72, 9/5 Parrish Chimes 72 coupled with Master Potts. Won by two lengths, six lengths between second and third. Times: 3.34 3-5, 3.35, 3.29 4-5. HUNTERS’ FLAT HANDICAP, Of £130; lOi furlongs 3/4 —Tautau Maid, 10.2 (Morton) .. 1 1/2—Hostile, 9.1 (Salt) 2 4/3 —Vantoon, 9.5 (Richards) 3 Also started: 5/5 Grand Finale 11.0, 2/1 Corban 10.3, 8/8 Joy Boa 9.3, 7/6 Golden Glow 9.0, 6/7 Darien 9.0. Won by half a length; two lengths between second and third. Time—2mln 20sec. VAUXHALL HANDICAP, Of £130; 6 furlongs 1/I—Wynwood, 8.10 (Barclay) .. .. 1 4/3 —Slayer, 8.4 (Dooley) 2 2/2 —Drink Up, 8.9 (Jennings) .. .. 3 Also started: 3/4 Donadea 8.7, 6/6 Hunting Chorus 8.3, 7/7 Remembo 8.2, 5/6 Gay Vixen 8.0, 9/9 Jedburgh 8.0, 8/8 Vallock 8.0. Won by three lengths; same distance between second and third. Time—lmin 15 3-ssec. fl After leading practically all the way, Gold Wren scored a hollow victory in the Otago Hunt Cup, the win being his fourth in succession. Tomcat went with him for nearly a mile, then Gfild Wren went ahead and Uncle Jim moved into second place. Thereafter the further he went the further Gold Wren edged away, and the Riverton gelding cantered in a long way in front of Uncle Jim, who beat off Tomcat’s challenge in the straight. • • • • The next Inter-Dominion trotting ''championship” meeting is still in the air. The Launceston committee has fixed on December 31, January 3, 5 and 7 as the dates for the gathering, and has allotted £3500 for prize money, just half the minimum required by the decision of the last conference of delegates. The amount set aside for the championship series is £2050, of which £lOOO is to go to the grand final. That leaves £lO5O for the qualifying events, and assuming that there will be two heats at each of the three distances, the prize-money for each heat will be £175. That will not attract good horses from New Zealand, and even if the executive should agree to the Tasmanian proposals, the meeting would be a championship only in name.

In the ordinary way it would be the turn of New South Wales to conduct the 1940 Inter-Dominion trotting meeting, but neither of the Sydney clubs desires to run it—both are more interested in greyhound racing. Some enthusiasts at Goulburn took the matter up, and the clubs in that district, about 140 miles south of Sydney, offered to stage the meeting if the New South Wales Trotting Club (the ruling body) would grant a subsidy or guarantee Goulburn against loss. As was expected, the Sydney body turned down this proposal, and the prospects of New South Wales taking its turn are remote. It is the same in Queensland and Victoria, and if the championship is to survive it seems likely that it will be held on the following itinerary— Perth, Auckland, Adelaide, Christchurch.