SPORTING.

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 67, 23 February 1938, Page 3

SPORTING.

NAPIER PARK WEIGHTS. Mr H. Coyle has declared the following- weights for the first day of the Napier Park Racing Club’s autumn meeting, on March 3rd and sth: Omarunui Highweight Handicap, of £IOO. One mile and a quarter. — Charade 10.4, Contact 9.8, Tommy Atkins 9.6, Iddo 9.6, Lord Hereford 9.6, Inheritance 9.0, Lady Wessex 9.0, Market Inn 9.0, Master Hector 9.0. Sapling Stakes, of £IOO. Five furlongs.—lvar 9.3, Rakahanga 8.11, Laddy Furst 8.3, Heidsieck 7.8, Hunting Royal 7.6, Laughing Song 7.0, Centrepoise 7.0. Napier Park Cup Handicap, of £250. One mile and a quarter.— Cuddle 10.2, Big Dook 8.9, Master Cyklon 8.5, Hunting Cat 8.0, Pladie 7.7, Soho 7.4, Kahikatoa 7.2, Limbohm 7.0, Buster Brown 7.0, Felicitation 7.0, Tullamore 7.0, Wananga 7.0. Esk Hack Handicap, of £IOO. Six furlongs.—Sardius 9.0, Quake 8.10, Screen Star 8.8, Hamarin 7.11, Black Frost 7.9, Oha 7.9, Haile Selassie 7.5, Inheritance 7.5, Syncopate 7.5. Autumn Handicap, of £l3O. Six furlongs.—Brunhild 9.0, Joviality 8.12, Slippery 8.5, Lucullus Lad 8.5, Bodyline 7.9, Kahikatoa 7.4, Hatuma 7.0, Blygain 7.0, Sardius 7.0. Redclyffe Hack Handicap, of £IOO. One mile.—Felicitation 9.1, Trailer 8.8, Granvale 8.8, Seyfried 8.6, Nereus 8.3, Parry 8.1, Agog 7.11, Lovelilt 7.7. Tullamore 7.7, Hamarin 7.6, Gironde 7.5, Oha 7.3, Clavercourt 7.0, Patches 7.0.

The Waikato meeting showed an increased totalisator turn-over of £4950. Jack Tar won the Waikato Hack Cup, with Dutch Girl second. General Ruse, who was a 17/17 bet, ran into third position. L. J. Ellis is to ride Cuddle in the Wanganui Cup to-morrow. He will not be available for Saturday’s racing at Wanganui, as he has contracted engagements to ride at Te Aroha, where he will have the mount on King Rey in the Ilcrries Memorial. Trentham trainers for the main part feel that they have been treated very shabbily by the Woodville Club, as the general opinion is that racing was quite possible last Saturday. They are all sending in expense accounts to the Woodville Club, and the majority were very pointed in their assertion that if they are not reimbursed they will decline fn future to patronise the club. On no occasion in the last decade has there been such unanimity of disgust among the centre’s trainers against the action of any particular club.