SUCCESSIVE WINS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 6

SUCCESSIVE WINS

SUPERIOR GUARD AT AVONDALE UN USUAL PERFORMANCE The unusual feat o£ winning two successive races was accomplished by the six-year-old gelding Superior Guard on the second day of the Avondale Jockey Club’s autumn meeting on Wednesday. Ridden by H. Stokes, Superior Guard carried 9.0 to an easy victory in the second race, the Dominion Handicap. Much to the surprise of those present he was produced again in the third event,' the Waitakere Handicap, in which he was ridden by J. Mclnally and dead-heated for first with Dragon Moth. The distance of both events was six furlongs. For his first success Superior Guard was penalised 51b for the Waitakere Handicap, in which he was originally weighted at 7.0. Superior Guard, who had not been successful previously, started fourth favourite in his first race and third favourite in the second. It is not two years since a similar performance was registered at Tauranga. Little Ruse, at the Opotiki Jockey Club’s meeting on June 23, 1936, won the Novice Handicap. After W. H. Preston had weighed in, an apprentice jockey, O. Evans, was weighed out to ride him in the following race, the Stewards’ Handicap, and again he was successful. One of the best performances of the kind was that of the Chief Ruler mare, Awaken. She was returned a winner on the first day of the Egmont Racing Club’s summer meeting in February, 1932, and on the concluding day, after winning the Normanby Handicap, seven furlongs, as favourite, she successfully carried a 71b penalty in the following race, the Waimate Handicap, six furlongs. She was piloted on the first occasion by K. Voitre and on the second by W. J.\ Broughton.

BLOODSTOCK BARGAINS

SOME LUCKY AUSTRALIANS I

At the dispersal sale of the Westmere Stud at Wanganui last year, Australian buyers dominated the position and incidents in the interval strengthen the view that they secured a batch of bargains. The stallion Beau Pere, bought for 330 guineas, was a big prize. It is safe to conclude that the Son-in-Law horse could not be bought for £lO,OOO to-day, comments “Phaeton.” Mr. W. J. Smith, of New South Wales, was the man who outstayed the New Zealand bidders for Beau Pere. Luck was also with him when he secured the brood mare Timid and her colt foal by Beau Pere for 325 guineas. The colt foal that followed Timid into the ring at Wanganui was included with the yearlings offered at auction in New South Wales last week, when he was sold for 1000 guineas.

RACING IN N.S.W. CITY TATTERSALLS CUP ACCEPTORS FOR TO-DAY SYDNEY, April 28. Acceptors for the City Tattersalls Club Cup on Saturday are: — Allunga 9.8, Silver Standard 8.10, Buzalong 8.10, El Senorita 8.3, Royal Step 8.3, Bristol 8.1. Sidcup 7.13, Gay Knight 7.11, Billy Boy 7.10, Bourbon 7.9, Shakespeare 7.8, Sal Volatile 7.7, Improvement 7.3, Highborn 7.3, Head Check 7.3, Barak 6.13, Rossjoy 6.11, Troy 6.10, Spearbine 6.10.