RICCARTON TRACK NOTES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2917, 1 November 1916, Page 7

RICCARTON TRACK NOTES

By Telegraph—Press Association. Christohurch, October SI. . Training at Riccarton to-day was car-' riod on in wintry oonditions, with cold winds and rain. Moat of tho work was done outside the course, which was faster than the plough. ' Wardnncer beat Good Hope over a mile and a quarter, run in 2min. 18 8-ssec. Disdainful beat Panmuro over sis furlongs on tho plough in lmin. 18 3-ssec. : Balboa went easily with Settler over ten furlongs in 2min. 18 8-ssec. Son Sebastian and Adjutant copied a mile in lmin. 48sec., and Glon Helen went the same distance alone. • Chortlo, going comfortably with Multiplication, went fire furlongs in lmin. isoo., and Plying Start and Battle Eve seven furlongs in lmin. S2sec. Snub was better than Indigo and Seddol- Bahr over ten furlongs, run in 2min. Msec. *

Fiery Cross, accompanied by Slogan for the last six furlongs, galloped a mile and. a quarter in 2min. 13 3-ssec., and was doing best, at the finsh. Daytime went half a mile in 51sec. Rorke's Drift easily beat Ringforin over ten furlongs in 2min. 15seo. . Multiply beat Toki over nine furlongs on tho grass ill 2in in. 2 2-seec. Desert Gold galloped a good 1 mile in lmin. U 3-ssec.

Merry Roe, with Bleriot in the last part, went nine furlongs on the plough in lmin. 59 2-ssec. !

Ascajaphiis beat Sir Tarka over seven furlongs in lmin. 33 3-ssec. Mnllingar beat Marc Antony by two with Marco 80110 beaten off, over a mile and ft half, run in 2min. lOaec.—a good gallap by both horses. "Hymestia and Estland were well matched in a half-mile spin .on the straight. Egypt cleared' out from Beltane, Pourparler and Brilliant in a mile gallop, which took lmin. 43 3-sseo.

MeltchikolE ran six furlongs jn lmin, 17sec. ,

A number of horses, chiefly two-year-olds, worked down the straight, but it was impossible to time them.