SOUTH CANTERBURY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1940, Page 3

SOUTH CANTERBURY

CUP COES TO WILD TALK. DENSITY SCORES IN SPRINT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) TIMARU. April 27. The South Canterbury Jockey Club's autumn meeting was held in beautiful weather and the course was in good order despite rain on Friday. The totalisator handled £15,022 10s. compared with £17.802 last year, a decrease of £2.773 10s. Results: — Tekapo Hurdles. IJm: 4/5 Far East, 9.0 (Register) 1; 3/2 Ballad. 11.7 (Mackie) 2: 1/1 Mount Vai. 10.11 (Hibberd) 3. Also started: 5/3 Sunny Comet; 2/4 Master Dingle: 6/6 Guilder (fell); 7/7 Valens. Four lengths; six lengths. Master Dingle was fourth. Time. 2.44 1-5. Electric Stakes. 6f; 4/4 Stabilise. 8.10 (Spratt) 1: I'l Bolovna, 8.10 (Didham) 2; 22 Schoolgirl. 2.10 (L. J. Ellis) 3. Also, started: 5/7 Ageratiun: 11 8 Escort; 8 9 Gay Hussar; 12/12 Iceland Spar; 3 3 Norse: 9 Z II Pink Gauntlet; 14/14 Pink Bird; 13/13 Sheeny: 5/6 Confident; 7'5 Great Heart; 15. 15 Platform; 9. 10 Tissue. Half a head: two lengths. Norse was fourth. Time, 1.13 4-5.

Gladstone Trot. 3.5 class, l.lm; 1/1 Warfield, scr (Watts) 1; 7/5 Brown Tap. scr 2; 4/5 Passing By, scr 3. Also started: 15/15 Bay Acron: 1/1 Black Label. bracketed with the winner: 11/12 Cold Steel; .13/13 Credit Balance; 12/11 Earl's Pride; 6/6 Helen? ora; 10'7 Irish Dawn; 14/14 Lyrola; 8/10 Mirage; 5/3 Pleasant' Guy; 9'9 Special Force; 2/2 Titus: 3/4 Lord Worthy. Four lengths: two lengths. Time. 2.47 4-5.

Timaru Cup. Ijm: 1/1 Wild Talk. 8.3 (Wilson i 1: 4/3 Lockil, 71 (R. Mackie) 2: 3'5 Knight. Commander. 7.11 (Spratt) 3. Also started: 2/2 Swordstick; 5/4 Night Dress; 6/6 Settlement; 8/8 Disdain; 10/9 The Wrecker; 9/10 Capo Gabo; 11 TO Balmenter; 7/7 Cherokee. One length and a half; two lengths. Cherokee was fourth. Timo, 2.7 1 -5.

Smithfield Hack Handicap. Of: 4-I Withdrawal. 3.13 (Anderson> I; 2'3 Sehoolgit-1. 7.7 (Messervyi 2; 12/12 Rosalec-n Dim. 7.7 (Hare) 3. Also started: l/l Race Away; 13/13 Glistering; 3/2 Elmarch: 11/10 Prince Ruenaif: 7/5 Blue Coat: 9/9 Lady Don: 6/8 Blazealong: 10/11 Waka; 8/6 Airline: 5/7 Gay Lover. Two lengths; one. Prince Ruenalf was fourth. Time. 1.1-1.

Doncaster Handicap. 6f: VI Density. 9.2 (Spratt) 1: 2/3 Petersham. 7.9 (Wilson) 2; 3/2 Auctor, 7.4 (Strathern) 3. Also started: 4/4 Miltiades; 5. 5 Silver Slipper. Three lengths; two. Time. 1.13 1-5.

Otipua Trot. 3.39 class. 1 Im: 3/3 Tokalon, scr (Teahan) 1: 6'6 Erin’s Lad. scr 2: 4 4 Swift Lady. 12yds behind 3. Also started: 9 !) Lord Zetland; 8 8 Tonioro; 1 1 Arietta; 7 5 Top Hand: 2 1 William Potts; 10-10 MacGregor; 5/7 Sunny Corner. Two lengths; six. Arietta was fourth. Time, 3.24.

Rosewill Hack Handicap. Im and 35yds: 3/3 The Raker, 8.10 (Spratt) 1: 13/13 Captain Bruce. 7.5 (Stokes) 2; 5/4 Great Swoop. 8.5 (Wilson) 3. Also started: 2/1 Aravane; 1/2 King's Toast; B'9 Prudent Prince; 4/5 Ripley; 12/12 Gusterina; 8/8 Dinah Dhu; 7/7 Asia; 6'6 Pink Lad: 11/10 Homing’; 10/10 Royal Refrain. Length and a hall; neck. Dinah Dim was fourth. Time. 1.42.

Good Finish by Veiedette. Gold Dale, with a 71b. allowance, was a firm favourite for the five- furlongs President's I-1.-mdieap, at Waverley, bui he showed none of his customary speed and was never in the picture. Calliope well clear of the- field, set a solid pace, and halfway down the straight was still in charge, but Veldette came along with an undeniable rim and got the verdict by a short length. Counter, who was always handy, finished third, but five lengths from the first pair, and Judgment wa.~ fourth. with Tea Drop. Boden Park. Gold Dale mid Zest next.

Easy Track Appreciated. Mataroa who promised well last year, but failed to do better than one second in a dozen starts this season evidently appreciated the easy track, for he was always travelling well in the Bosley Memorial Handicap, al Waverlc-y, and aiter fighting o(! a hoi challenge from Winsome Lu. lie won with something to spare. Mataroa had sole charge turning for home al'ier Galtceirwro had retired, and tin appeared eortain to win easily till Wiggins brought Winsome t.u idem; 1 , with a great rattle on the outside. 1 Im.vcvor. Mataroa had siitiiciein in reserve ustall off the challenge. Rehearsal wlm was not suited oy the imdulatiug tra<T. ran a good race, fighiin,-, nn lor .bird money four lengths bchiiid the lir/. pail'. The feature of the finish was lite great run tint in by the hurdler. Aussie Ra, to finish fourth close behind Rehearsal. Aussie Ra was last three furlong's from home, but finished witli .groat dash. Tim favourite. Amigo, did not got the best of running in the first half-mile, being hemmed in on the fence and unable to strike out. He finish fifth with Gaily and Galteemore beside him.

Flashlight Jumping Well. Flashlight .a member of Ridgway's team is reported to be jumping well. He is still eligible for hack steeplechases. and it is over country that he will do his racing in the North Island.

jenjnKmpw.di’iruvKinMsarauM'Eara figment Rehandicaps. The following rehandicaps are announced lor the first day ol the Eg* mont meeting on May 2 and 4: —Telegraph Handicap: Veldeite. (ilb. to 3.2. Hawcra Handicap: Alunga, 2lb. to 8.6: Kaiwnk.i. slb. io 7.6. Egmoni Steeplechase: En Tour, 61b. to 10.8. Mcßae Cup: Mataroa. 61b. to 7.6. Tawhili Hack Handicap: Veldeite, 51b. to 7.13: Davilia. 51b. to 7.13; Young Charles, 2 lb. to 7.9. In this race. Colossal Chief has not been rehandicapped. Not a Winning’Chance. When Silkwood contested the Ringway Hack Handicap at the Otautau meeting she was ineligible to compete as she had won more than the hack limit of £5OO. Her total winnings to date are £502. and she ran out ol hacks bv winning a high-weight at Gore in February. Had she won the Ringway Handicap there would have been no alternative but to disqualify her. )i she had finished first or second she would not. have returned a dividend and those who supported her to the extent of £6B did so without having a winning chance. She was one of the last to finish, but improved later in the day. when she finished second to Amelita in the open mile. At the Tuapeka and Beaumont meetings she twice finished second in hack events when she was ineligible to start. Knight Commander. Apparently the riders of Knight Commander have received instructions not to go to the front, and in carrying out orders have got their mount into trouble. There is a difference between pulling a horse back to last place when the pace is slow and giving away a start, when the pace is on. In the Waimate Cup Knight. Commander was fighting witli his rider in the early stages of the race, and might have done a lot belter if allowed to run along until reaching the back streach. Instead of doing so, he struck trouble at the turn near lhe- six-furlong post, and that was the end of him. Stopping :i hors.' when (he pace is slow may lead io trouble when it becomes increased. Knight. Commander meets Wild Talk on 91b. belter terms in the Scckburn Handicap, ami the margin should supply a chance- of beating her if properly handled. Preserving History. Inhabitants of tills earth in the year 8113 A.D. will have ample opportunity to gaze at micro-film reproductions of the important, photographs which will be taken at Churchill Downs. Louisville. on Derby Day. 1940—May 4. Colonel Matthew J. Winn, who is busy now planning for the sixty-sixth running of the 75,000-dollar added Derby at lite historic course, lias been requested by Professor T. K. Peters director of archives at Oglethorpe University. Georgia, io send to him photographs of the highlight happenings on Derby Day. These will be microfilmed immediately, says F. G. Menke as publicity agent for the Kentucky Derby and placed in an immense crypt which will be scaled late in May. not to be reopened tor 6173 years. The crypt, containing 2000 cubic feet, will be filled with records, plastics, miniatures. etc., of everything of consequence in tills era of civilisation so that humans of 3113, and in the years that may lie beyond, will have an accurate idea of what made up the material world of today.

The idea of the crypt originated some years ago with Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, president of Oglethorpe. At that time Dr Jacobs, aware as arc all other famous historians, that authentic civilisation can be traced back close to 62 centuries. decided to do something to save people 6173 years lienee the heartbreaking search which men of today and yesteryear made to establish history from fragmentary findings. From earliest civilisation, nothing ever \v:v donc- in coherent fashion to acquaint succeeding generations and centuries with, what lead happened earlier. It is Dr. Jacobs’s determination that detailed evidence of this era in civilisation shall bo preserved for the humans. <>/ 811’3. To this end the immense vault was built at Oglethorpe with materials which are expected to withstand the lavages of 6173 years. Into this crypt five mom working since 1936. have been storing away the story of the world of today. Already it is almost jammed witli micro-filmed books:, voice records of famous men since the phonograph was invented. There arc- miniatures of model train-;, airplanes automobile.", print in;-; presses—ton (housmid and <>m ether important inventions. I 'lustier representing every development of manmade creations have bear, donated mamifarttnci's throughout liic- world. Mannequins. 29 inches high,.

will bo dressed in every typo of clothing v.urn in this, era in difi'ere-iii parts cl' flu- world. Mure than 1 060 900 fcc-t of film aire-ady has been irc-ated so as to enduro in |irimo condition until 8113. mid sealed in mi enormous container. The pictures show the changing life throughout the world during Hie last 50 years, mid tell their own story of the world al the present time. There are many scientific films dealing with surgery medicine, dentistry mid scientific- work as performed in this ora. and, in addition to all this, there will bo the photographs of the Derby, the Derby crowd mid all important happenings al Churchill Downs on May -I.