SPORTING.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8186, 24 May 1919, Page 3

SPORTING.

The Wanganui Club had a very successful opening for their autumn meeting on Thursday, the totalisator receipts amounting to £39,829, as against £35,143 on the first day last year. Taken all round it was a favorites’ day, the best dividend being paid by Euripos in the Century Hurdles, who started fourth favorite.

Marqueteur and Client were placed in the Connolly Handicap, and Astinome and Bayberry in the Purua Hack.

Wapping, who has not shown anything like his old form so far this season, ran disappointingly in the Purua Hack, failing to get a place. Burrangong, a comparative outsider, won the Oamaru Cup at the North Otago meeting on Thursday. At the Randwick meeting on Thursday the New Zealander Gladful started favorite in the Hurdles and ran prominently throughout, but had to be content with third place. WANGANUI RACES. (Per Press Association). WANGANUI, This day. Winter Oats.—Rawakore, 7.4, 1; Silver Link, 9.12, 2. & Balgownie Hack.—Marshall Neil. 7.0, 1; ’Cello, 8.3, 2, Ben Bolt 7.0, 3 Scratched: Arrowfield and Cadet. Won by a length. Time, 1.59 3-5. Grandstand Steeples.—Polthogue, 9.12, 1; Master Strowan, 12.10," 2; Bore, 10.10, 3. Scratched: Foeman. Won by three lengths. Time, 5.4.