AUSTRALIAN HURDLE RACE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1510, 5 August 1912, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN HURDLE RACE.

• WpiMERA SECOND. By TelograißjvFress Attociuiion—Coctriirht -v j[ (Bfic.'. jisigust '1, 5.5 p.m.) . Melbourne, Augiist>i3.. At the: y.A:T.Ci Baces to-day, ; the vfolr lowing-;jra3,tho;.p'vsult; of-the . . 'AUSTRALIAN H\vRDLE <RACE, of ffiOO', sots.:. 'Three. ni;|lesand.' a half, less.' 1)2 yards. Mr. W. Moffatfs -,big. by . ' Sir Tristram—Medal#, syrs., lOst. 71b. * (R., Cameron) 1 Mr.;. E. J. Watt's Wimnjpra, lOst. 71b. . (S. O'Neill) 2 Mr. J. Hayncs's .Wnrwidgt*ie, 9st. 111b. ' (Stuart) 3 Also started: Arqtiebusli, list, ,131b.; Forest Prince, :1 Ost. 131b. Lord Desmond, lOst: 111b.; Monarch; lOsti 111b.; Winga- ■ raw,- 105t.;.91b.; King's Ransom; lOst. 311j,j Lion, JOst. *31b.; Tiuidulju, list.' 131b.; Flash' Jack, 9stv ;91b.; Light Ballast, 9st. 31b.; Zal, 9st.; Cannon i : Wheel, 9st.; i, Rogue's March,' \9sfc; Cullimui.Jst.; Balr listdj-,95t.-'j Black .Native, 9st.- : At' the. start -.Wimmera ■ led f from Light Ballast,. Ballisfca,'-.and Wingamra. Enterstraight., tile second ..tiino tine order iva3{ Wimmera, Libnj t \Black'Na-, ■tive; and Uxbridge:. Zal and Lion fell in front of the stand,'.where Wimmera \va3 leading from Baliibta by sis, lengths. l Flash; Jack : fell, to the r : straight, and Monarch '.camo- .dowsi, at the ,back. Uxbridge joined Wimmera at the last hurdle, and, racing him hoilio-won by a neck. The third horse was • five-, lengths away. • Suite, 6min: 38Jscc. ' RECORD TIME • FOR THE -RACE. (Rec.iAugust.s,>.o.2o a.m.) ' . 1 Sydney,.August 1 Usbridge'a ■ iime ■. in, the. Australian, Hurdles'-.was. a, ij,ooord ;for ,tho ; -race. The "Da&y in commenting on ilia fact, says' the cnMSt is duo to Wimmera, wboyan a great race; JJe was/ never really neaded ~ till , the ..last, hurdle.'The folly of Wimmera's jockey in allowing-him : to-runWumEelf -to.-a,■ stand--still :ivas ; apparent, iftad, O'Neill .nursed. .Wimmera,' 'Uxbi'idg , e\v™uld 'have had a much harder task, r.WI it is doubtful Ivhether he would havo pW>ved equal to it. '• . WOOTT.ON'S SUSPENSION. fflS FATHER ABANDONS : . '. London, August 2. Oijnng .to' Frank Wootton's suspension for.jreckless riding, Mr. Woottoh abandons 'training, and sells, his'', houses in. October. ' ■ •