METROPOLITAN TROTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1941, Page 3

METROPOLITAN TROTS

NEW ZEALAND CLUB’S SECOND DAV

KING’S HANDICAP TO FERRY POST.

MANKIND WINS FREE-FOR-ALL. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, August 13. For the second day of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting the weather was showery. The attendance was good, the track being holding. The totalisator handled £54,701 10s, against £55.926 for the second day last year. Results: — Improvers’ Handicap, Im. and 5f.: 1/1, Certissimus, 48yds. bhd (D. Teahen), 1; 2/2, Within, scr. (W. J. Doyle), 2; 8/8, Margin, 24yds. bhd. (G. Cameron), 3. Also started: 11/10, Amonos; 5/4, Hatrack; 12/12, Pirate’s Last; 6/5, Shadeland; 9/9, Discord; 7/7. Escalade; 10/11, Sagamore; 4/6, Millisle; 3/3, Aristotle and Allie Audubon (bracketed). Three lengths; length. Timo, 3.51 2-5.

Speedway Handicap, 2m.: 4/3. Great Blaze, scr. (C. King), 1; 1/1, Positive, scr. (P. P. Gallagher), 2; 2/2, Single Star, scr. (B. Brice), 3. Also started: 3/4, Glen Travis; 11/13, Philario; 8/9, Royal Grattan; 6/6, Trireme; 11/12, Agility; 9/8, Bing Crosby; 5/5, Clockwork; 10/10, King’s Jubilee; 13/11, Pamelus; 7/7, Worthy Cross. Length; head. Time, 4.55. Belgium Handicap, 2m.: 4/4, Toorak, 24yds. bhd. (W. Stewart), 1; 1/1, Bronze Eagle, 24yds. bhd. (J. B. Pringle), 2; 5/5, Jesse Owens, 24yds. bhd. (L. A. Maidens), 3. Also started: 3/3, Foremost Junior; 2/2, Haughty and Kilrea (bracketed); 6/6, Red Ranger. Length; half a head. Time, 5.5. King’s Handicap, 2m.: 1/1, Ferry Post, 24yds. bhd. (C. S. Donald), 1; 4/4, Dusky Sound, 48yds. bhd. (R. Townley), 2; 6/6, Willow Bank, scr. ID. C. Watts), 3. Also started: 8/8, Horsepower; 7/7, Lightning Lady; 1/1, Accountant (bracketed with Ferry Post); 5/5, Huguenot and Sandusky (bracketed); 3/2, Great Divide; 2/3, Peter Smith. Three lengths; half a length. Time, 4.48. Lincoln Handicap, 2m.: 1/3, Pleasant Guy, 12yds. bhd. (R. Townley), 1; 3/2, Chatmos, 12yds. bhd. (O. E. Hooper), 2; 9/8, Happy Locanda, scr. (J. Walsh), 3. Also started: 8/6, Colonel Axworthy; 11/11, Palomar; 4/4, Golden Mist and Mendel (bracketed); 10/8, Waipahi; 2/1, Stormtost; 6/7, Gold Bank; 5/5, Mongolian; 7/10, Southern Smile. Two lengths; same. Time, 4.49. Avon Handicap, 2m.: 4/4. Gracie Fields, scr. (R. Townley), 1; 5/5, Mute, scr. (D. Bennett), 2; 1/2, Jenny Guy, 24yds. bhd. (R. AV. Townley), 3. Also started: 8/8, Tan John; 10/10, Mohican; 9/9, Parrish Guide; 6/6, Bush Laddie; 2/1, Lament; 3/3, Dark Hazard; 7/7, Gerfalcon. Two lengths; twenty. Time, 4.50. August Free-For-All, 1-jm.: 3/5, Mankind, (W. R. Butt), 1; 1/L Dusky Sound (R. Townley), 2; 2/2, Nelson. Eddy (L. O. Thomas), 3. Also started: 6/6, Colonel Grattan; 7/7, Great Jewel; 4/4, Gold Bar; 5/3, Kenworthy; 8/8, Southern Chief. Four lengths; length. Time, 2.53. Canterbury Handicap, Um.: 1/2, Ronald Logan, scr. (J. B. Pringle), 1; 4/5, Oxford Scholar, scr. (C. K. Yeatman), 2; 8/8, Royal Guy, scr. (J. McLennan, Junr.), 3. Also started: 9/8, Coquette; 6/6, Drumoak; 5/4, Nationalist; 4/5, Purina (bracketed with Oxford Scholar); 2/3, Gold Chief; 3/1, Turco; 7/7,' Wainoni Girl. Half a length; three lengths. Time, 3.37.