WHIPPETS RACE ON NEW BRIGHTON COURSE.
Showing speed and breeding before a small crowd of enthusiasts, whippets raced once again to-day at New BrighBright sunshine favoured the racing, which was of a very exciting nature. Results:— Puppy Handicap, 120yds.—First beat: Mrs J. Erwin’s Crown Jewel (13yds) l. C. S* Forbes’s Jazz Girl (16yds) 2. Time, 8 3-ssec. Second heat: j. It. D. Johns's Tom Pepper (18yds) 1, Mrs C. S. Forbes’s Flapperette (14yds) 2. Time, 8 2-f>sec. Final—Mrs J. Erwin’s Crown Jewel i, C. S. Forbes's Jazz Girl 2. Time—--8 2-ssec. Open Flat Handicap, 200yds—First heat: A. E. Smith's Jock (3yds) 1. R. Robinson's Little Ruby (9yds) 2. Time, 12 9-10 sec. Second heat: J. R. D. Johns's Captain Comedy (syds) 1; R. Musson’s Lone Star (25yds) 2. Time, 13 3-10 sec. Flat Handicap, 200yds. .under 201 bRobinson’s Little Ruby (9yds) 1, E. Cross’s Teacher’s Best (25yds) 2. Time —l3sec. Open Handicap—Final: A. E. Smith's Jock I,J. R. D. Johns’s Captain Comedy 2. Time—l 3 l-10sec. Hurdle Handicap, 200yds—J. R. D. Johns’s Captain Comedy 1, A. E. Smith’s Jock 2. Time—ls 3-10 sec.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18467, 19 May 1928, Page 6
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