ON AWAPUNI TRACKS
RAIN BENEFITS COURSE YESTERDAY’S OPERATIONS. T Per Press Association. ] PALMERSTON N., Dec. 21. Steady rain set in last night, and although it eased at 4.30 a.m.. it still continues. The tracks have benefited materially, and trainers took full advantage of the improved conditions this morning to gallop on the course proper. Arctic Region ran seven furlongs in Imin. 37 2-ssec. after taking 1.11 for the first five furlongs. Top Flier ran six furlongs in 1-21 2-5, after running the first three in 40 4-sse i e. Tudor and Gay Coat were partners over six furlongs. They ran the first three in 39 2-ssec . and slowed up to complete rhe task in 1.21 4-5. Dombey and Ralphyllis finished together at the close of five furlongs in 1.74. Interlocutor, alone, broke 1.7 for the same distance. Ebeum. Pango, and Senegal finished in that order at the end of a mile in 1.50 1-5. Thev rar. the first two furlongs in 27 3-ssec. and the first five in l.fi. Ebeum finished attractively. Sir Romeo was a length clear of Treasure Hunt, with Callamart eased up at the end of three furlongs, after slipping over seven furlongs in 1.37 2-5. Sir Spear held Park Acre over the final stages of seven furlongs, the last six in 1.25 2-5. After breakfast. La Crown ran an easv six in 1.24. Equitant. after running her initial furlong in 13 4-ssec. and three furlongs in 39 2-ss<*e., completed six furlongs in 1.2! 1-5. Thrasher, Te Rangitumau, and King Thomond finished in that, order at the end of six furlongs, the first three being accomplished in 40 3-ssee. Te Rangitumau shows Improvement. Flaxen was hold back to Tnveresk in the earlv stages of half a mile. The latter finished nieolv. running the distance in 54500. Hunting Lodge, who followed, took 1-ssoe. longer for th° same distance. Boudoir finished too stronglv for Ythan after leaving three furlongs behind in 3R 4-ssc‘c. The latter, how?vor. is an indifferent track worker Blacksmith nulling hard, came homo from the half-mile post in 54 2-ssec., after running the first two furlongs in 27 4-ssoe.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 302, 22 December 1933, Page 4
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