SPORTING.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LI, Issue 38, 13 December 1929, Page 3

SPORTING.

THE AVOODVILLE RACES. Alerry Al int, who has been steadily improving for some time, rewarded hi* supporters hv capturing the 80l ton Handicap at Woodville on Wednesday, and paying over the limit. Chopin, who went out second fav orite, finished third to Gold Bag and Thrift in the Wlmriti Handicap Moth)Jane, another Waipawa horse, ran unplaced. Mr F. Ormond’s coiisislciit Toxeuniii had no difficulty in appropriating I lie Borough Handicap, with Maui in second berth. The tolalisalor receipts for Ihe day showed an increase ol .1278(1 on lasi year’s rclurns. On Ihe second day al Woodville an outsider in Red Lane won Ihe Papula wa. Hurdles, healing I ho favor ill* Vinella by a short neck. The Novice wonl lo Grecian, with Portray second. | Alerry Mint and Blimp dead healed I in the Golhard Memorial, Ihe laller | being a good betting proposition. | A favorite in Glenn rtney won the ! Kirilaki Handicap hy a neck from Royal Parade after a well-timed run j in Ihe straight. j In this race War Zone, Water | Spear and Brown Sugar fell, and Chandler, rider of War Zone, sustained a bioken shoulder. Another favorite in Aspiring was successful in the Railway Handicap, Knightlike second. Still another favorite got home in the Juvenile, Gesture heating Princess Betty by a neck. Malahat won the Stewards’ Handicap, with Goldlike second. Chopin

nud Mothplane wure starters ill this . vent, but both failed to run up to expectations. The final event, the Gorge Hanclienp, went to Royal Lineage, with queen’s Choice as runner-up. The meeting was must success! ill from the club's point of view, the lotalisator turnover exceeding that ot last year by .t-IHTtI. _______