LATE SPORTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17905, 22 July 1926, Page 5

LATE SPORTING.

WAIMATE RACES. Ter Press Association. WAIMATE, July 22. For the Waimate Hunt Club’s steeplechase meeting to-day the weather was fine and the course holding. Results: — STUDHOLME HURDLES, Of 100 sovs. One mile and five furlongs. 3 Kapuna, 9.6 1 s—Radiae, 9.11 2 4 Uleaborg, 9.2 3 Scratched—Clantoi. Won by a length. Time—3min 13 2-ssec. BLUECLIFFS STEEPLECHASE. Of 65 sovs. Two miles and a quarter. 3—Message Bay, 9.10 1 D—Mataipuke, 9.6 2 6—Good Form. 9.13 3 Scratched: Toa Taua, Mainspring, Rockfellow, Punjaub. Royal Fashion. Won by two lengths. Time—4min 39 l-ssec. WAIMATE STEEPLECHASE, Of 130 sovs. Two miles and a half. 2—King Abbey-, 10.0 (O. Cullum) 1 s—Uncle Bob, 11.2 2 I—Whipcord. 10.1 3 Scratched: Blue Hall, Happy Mac. Time—4min 54 3-ssec. King Abbey jumped to the front and led the field by a length until he hit hard at the fence at the back, the jockey recovering well. Then Uncle Bob came up, and a great fight followed. King Abbey won by a short head. Whipcord was third, ten lengths away. WAIIIAO HACK HANDICAP. Of 75 sovs. Six furlongs. 2—Tohn Bradburv, 10.5 1 I—Fairv Herald. 10.1 2 10— Royal Reel. 9.3 3 All started. Won by two lengths. Time—lmin 21 2-ssec. SCRATCHED. Great Bingen has been scratched for the first day of the August meeting of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club. F. D. Jones is' making an early start with his team in Sydney, as Young Lochnivar, Revue and Battlement have been nominated for events at the Warwick Farm Races to be commenced on Saturday and concluded the following Saturday. Reonui is due to open the campaign to-morrow in the Floxton Park Nursery, a race for twoyear?olds over seven furlongs. The horses were fairly well forward when they left Riccarton, having been sprinted several times in the last fortnight they were there. They might be all the better for a race or two but in any case their form at this meeting, if they are started, will provide a veryuseful guide for their trainer, when mapping out the team’s future programme.