BRACKETS AT MARTON

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 8, 10 January 1946, Page 6

BRACKETS AT MARTON

ADDITIONAL ACCEPTORS. With the acceptors totalling 30 in the Electric Hack Handicap, concluding race on lhe final day of the Marton Jockey Club’s meeting on Saturday, this event will have to be run in divisions if the starters exceed Ihe safety number, 23. Several ol those engaged claim dual engagements on the day, and the seven scratchings necessary to avoid divisions may be forthcoming on the day. Should the Electric Hack be divided the stake-money will be increased io £370, with £l5O for each winner, £25 tor second and £lO lor third. Six brackets have been required for thjs race, as follows: Bambion and Currency Lass; Fair Dinkum and Fan Game; Fine Boy and Golden Ash; Manulere and Peter Theio; Tanta Boy and Te Heroine; Tukumaitu and Ringscarf. The official race-book shows that Ringscarf was accepted for in the Otairi Hack Handicap, not the Rosebank Hack. Dileas (7.9) is also included in the Crofton Handicap field, making a total of 20 acceptors for that Auckland's leading apprentice, G. Hughes, had only two rides at the Rangitikei meeting last Saturday, but. in the opening event he jumped Fiorin out smartly and still had an advantage of a length and a-half when the winning post was reached. He will again be riding at Marton on Saturday, when more use will be made of his undoubted ability. C. M. Jillings, successful Ellerslie apprentice, will be at Marton on Saturday for the third day of lhe Marton Jockey Club's summer meeting. Jillings has been engaged to ride Quick Draw in the concluding event, and Keen Play in the Crofton Handicap.