FOXTON R.C.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21969, 22 May 1941, Page 6

FOXTON R.C.

ACCEPTANCES (P.A.) FOXTON, May 21. The following are the acceptances for the Foxton Racing Club’s winter meeting on Saturday:— POROUTAWHAO HURDLES, of £130; 11 miles.—High Peer 11.3, Great Quex 10.11, Gay Fox 10.4, Sunee 10.2, Golden Memory 9.9, Kincora 9.2, Selkirk 9.0, Dunmanway 9.0, Hokumai 9.0, Corroboree 9.0, Royal Romance 9.0. TRIAL STAKES, of £100; weight 8.5; 6 furlongs.—Bonnie Bunsby, Eastern Sport, Fox Tower, Gallarda, Gothic, Kanui, Te Pai, La Rosita, Magnifier, Midvane, Moderate, Royal Vision, Santa Lucia, Silver Ore, Tremolo, Te Oriko, The Hawker, The Rama. HIMITANGI HACK HANDICAP, of £120; 6 furlongs.—Sunny Knight 9.11, Hasten 9.1, Defy 8.7, Sweet Anne 8.5, Desert Tide 7.10, Parchment 7.7, Leighon Rei 7.7, Victoire 7.7, Dark Water 7.7, Caution 7.7, Tractometer 7.7. FOXTON CUP, of £275; 11 miles.— Amigo 9.8, Gladynev BJ3, Aurora’s Star 8.2, The Monarch 7.12, Lady Montana 7.11, Gaelic Song 7.10, Gay Fox 7.8, Kena 7.8, Last Acre 7.4, Night Eruption 7.4, Trench Law 7.2, Talenta 7.2, Valerian 7.0, Filbert 7.0. MOUTOA HACK HANDICAP, of £120; 9 furlongs.—Sanction 9.0, Pitmark 8.4, Red Dash 8.4, Arabic 8.3, Valpere 8.3, Courting 8.2, Tau-Uru 7.13, Kahika 7.12, Haile Selassie 7.11, Little Margot 7.11, Arachne 7.11. KEBBELL MEMORIAL, of £175; 6 furlongs.—Autolite 9.3, Majority 8.11, Mittie 8.2, Night Eruption 8.0, Black Robe 8.0, Screen Star 7.8, Lutanist 7.5, Grandora 7.0, Miss Te Koura 7.0, WakaWHIRiKINO HACK HANDICAP, of £115; 5 furlongs.—Sunny Knight 9.13, Parlato 8.12, Sceptre 8.9. Sweet Anne 8.5, PTettv Lass 8.3, Kriemhild 8.2, Barry Boy 7.9,‘Tristan 7.7, Parchment 7.7, Hlkurangi 7.7, Royal Vision 7.7, Trethella 7.7, Calliope 7.7.

A new Metropolitan district is proposed in a Conference remit to be moved by representatives of the Waikato Racing Club. The idea is that the Auckland District should be divided, the new district to include that portion south of Mercer. The Waikato Racing Club would be the new metropolitan body, and the district would include Bay of Plenty. Matamata, Ohinemuri, Rotorua, Te Aroha, Thames, Walpa. Waikato Hunt and RotoruaBay of Plenty Hunt. If the remit were passed th eonly clubs in the Auckland District would be Auckland, Avondale. Whangarei, Franklin and Pakuranga Hunt.

A splendid ’chaser of a few years ago was Luna Lux. who in one jumping season won the Hawke’s Bay Steeplechase and then went on to Wellington and ran second to Omeo in the big event, to follow up in a similar position to Thurina in the Grand National. Had it not been for unsoundness he might have proved one of the best cross-country horses to race in the Dominion. A half-brother, Pertinax (Lord Warden-Caligo), only four years of age. was successful in the Melville Steeplechase at Waikato and paid the best dividend of the day. He was purchased among the Flaxmere lot at the 1938 yearling sales by Dr. A. McGregor Grant with the intention of making him into a jumper.