MUNGATOON AGAIN
Wins South Canterbury Handicap GOLD WREN'S STEEPLECHASE DOUBLE RESULTS AT WASHDYKE I Per Press Association.) TIMARU, May 20. The second day of the South Canterbury Jockey Club winter meeting was held in fine weather with ruin threatening towards the end ot the day. The track was hard and £?.st. The attendance was good. The totalisator handled £16,858, against £16,612 10s, and the total for the meeting was £27,666 10s, against £28,172 10s. Results: — Pukaki Hurdles.—3/3 Metal Bird 9.0 (Register) 1, 1/1 Pink Robe 10.1 (Cassels) 2, 5/5 Colonel French 9.0 (Boyle) 3. Also: 4/4 Fireguard, 2/2 Recollection (fell), 6/6 Pride o' Central, 7/7 Game Hunter (fell). Three lengths; six lengths. Time, 2.13 1-5. Southburn Hack Handicap.—3/4 Treasurer 7.1 (Stokes) 1, 1/1 i henomenal 8.0 (R. Humphries) 2, 9/9 Astral Flash 7.2 (Hare) 3. Also: 5/5 On Call, 4/6 Triple Cone 8.7, 7/7 Nolana, 2/2
Lady Sincere, 8/8 Flame Queen, 6/3 Real Lady, 12/12 Don I toy 8.2, 10/10 Smile Again 8.3, 11/11 Anta. Half a length; three lengths. Time, 1.12 1-5. Waititi Trot. —5/3 Erin's Lad (Lockhead) 1, 8/5 Mandrel! (Clare) 2, 3/4 Kansas City (Watts) 3. Three lengths; length. Times, 3.25 2-5, 3.25, 3.2 b 1-5. South Canterbury Handicap. (Of £250; 11 miles. I 1/1— MUNGATOON, 7.4, SloKCs 1 2/2—THERMIDOR, B.J, Hibberd 2 4/3—FOXLOVE, 8.4, W. F. Ellis • 3 Also. 9/10 Haughty Winner, 8/a Rabble 8.7, 5/5 Settlement, 10/9 Night Dress, 6 6 Petersham, 7/7 Night Hawk 7.0, 3/4 Waitoru i’.i, 11/11 Silver Slipper 7.1. Mungatoon and Night Hawk were three lengths clear of Petershaw, Foxlove and inermidor across the top. Mungatoon IcJ into the straight from Foxiove, Tiicrmidor and Nignt Hawk. Mungatoon lasted long enough to win by a head from Thermidor. Foxlove was three lengths away, just in front of Settlement and Petersham. Time, 2.4. Pareora Steeplechase.— 1/1 Gold Wren 10.13 (Shand) 1, 3/3 Wexfora Bridge 9.10 (Stove) 2, 5/5 Sunny Comet 9.2 (Gough) 3. Also: 6.6 Corban (fell), 22 chile (fell), 4/4 Tomcat (fell). Head; ten lengths. Time. Farewell Handicap. 2 Nightcalm 8.3 (Haro 1. 3 Flagman 7.0 (R. Humphries) 2, 1 Rebel Mate 9.0 (Hibberd3. Also: 4 Roseman. Length, haul a length. 'Lime, 1.11 1-5. Winchester Trot.—3/3 Becky Direct
(F. G. Holmes) 1, 6/5 Lady Nessa (M. B. Edwards) 2, 7/10 Black Art (Davidson) 3. Length; neck. Times, 2.52 4-5, 2.52, 2.54 1-5. Temuka Hack.— 1 I Wardress 9.3 (A. Messervy 1, 5/4 Doctor Duthie 7.9 (Spratt) 2, 14/12 Bright Prospect 8.3 (Hibberd) 3. Also: 4/5 Gironde 9.2, 3/3 Disband, 2/2 The Wrecker, 12/14 Garonne, 12/11 Shangri La 7.13, 8/8 Elmarch 7.7, 7/6 Elegy, 9/10 Merry Simon 7.5,10, 9 Chief Lama 7.1, 6/7 Lord Puck, 11/13 Comus 7.3. Two lengths each way. Time, 1.41 4-“.
INJURED JOCKEY
MeDO.XALH LX HOSPITAL ! Per Cress Association.] PALMERSTON N., May 20. Alan McDonald, who was injured when Power Chief fell on him during Thursday's track work, has been admitted to hospital. It is understood there is a possibility of his neck having been fractured.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 118, 22 May 1939, Page 4
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