THE RIVERTON MEETING

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 166, 3 April 1918, Page 7

THE RIVERTON MEETING

By Telegraph—Press Association. Inveroargill, April 2. Following are tho concluding results of the Riverton Meeting:— KIVERTON STEEPLECHASE. Two miles

and A half.—Zarkoma, list. 71b., 1; Itechargo, 12st. 41b., 2; Palladio, lOst. 81b., 3. All started. Won by four lengths, eight lengths between second and third. Time, 6min. 27sco. WALLACE HACK HANDICAP. One mile. —Tin Soldier, Bst„ 1; Don Pacifico, 9st. 91b., 2; Calma, Get., 3. Scratched:. Samiel, Burrangong, Lady Knight.-' Won by a length and a half, a length between second and third. FAREWELL HANDICAP.—Bon, Bst.. 1; Night Alarm, 7sti. 91b., 2; The Wliito King, Sst., 3. Scratched: Wild Pilgrim, Achilleus. Won by two and a half lengthsi a length between second and third. Time, lmin. 421-ssec. THE A.J.C. MEETING A RECORD ATTENDANCE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney April 2. Yesterday the race attendance was another record of 65,000. The totalisator takings were also a record, amounting- to £57,802. Outlook, winner of two races at Randwick, has been sold to Mr. S. P. Mackay for 5000 guineas. Cetigne and Desert Gold are having a close contest for winnings. Cetigne has won £20,824, and Desert Gold £20,141. They stand third and fourth respectively in tho list of Australasian winners, following Carbine with £29,476 and Trafalgar with £22,111. DESERT COLD SCRATCHED FOR THE PLATE. Sydnoy April 2. Desert Gold has been scratched for tho A.J.C. Plate, to be run on Saturday. NEW YORK SCRATCHED FOR THE STEEPLES. By Telugraph-Press Association-Copyright (Rec. April 2, 9.35 p.m.) Sydney April 2. Kew York has been scratched for the Steeplechase. DESERT COLD TO RETURN TO NEW ZEALAND. (Rec. April Z. 9.35 p.m.) Sydney April 2. It is understood that ilie AL'-Aged Stakes to-morrow will be Desert Goi"s last'race 1 here at present. She will return to New Zealand at the first opportunity. NOTES AND COMMENTS ! [By Glencoe.] Owners-and trainers are reminded that nominations for the two-day autumn meeting of the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club close on April 12. The A.J.C. Meeting will be advanced another stage to-day when the All-Aged and Cumberland Stakes will be decided. Desert Gold has engagements in both, but will very probably start in the mile race. Mr. T. 11. Lowry won-the Autumn Stakes and the All-Aged Stakes at A.J.C. Meeting in 1910 with Bobrikoll, and there seoms to be every ehunce of the brilliant daughter of All Black repeating tho performance. Desert Gold is tho first maro to win tho Autumn Stakes sinco 1906, when Marvel Loch beat another of her sex in Gladsome. Reputation won the event two years ago. A. Wood, who will rido Cetigno to-day in the All-Aged Stakes, has piloted tho winner three times in succession, tho horses being Bobrikol! and Malt King (twice). Ladino, who won the laßt Hobart Cup, broke a shoulder on March 22, and had to be destroyed. Fiery Cross, who has been turned out for a spell, won £3132 and a trophy valued at £150 during the current racing season. Prince Yiridis, who won the A.J.C. St. Leger on Saturday, was successful in the Y.R.C. St. Leger at tho beginning of March. The All Blaok colt Pontoon, who reached Sydney a couple of weeks ago with the rest of Mr. E. J. Watt's team, managed to run second to Millie Kenilworth in a nursery handicap at the' A.J.C. Meeting on Monday. A sum of £1000, being part of the winnings in Australia of tho mare Desert Gold, has already been forwarded by Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay, to bo devoted to the benefit of the soldiers' ward at the Napier Hospital. After winning the Champion Stakes at Addington on Saturday, the three-year-old filly Queen' Chiracs was hurried away to Lyttelton, making the trip to Wellington by the ferry steamer. She went on by motor-lorry .on Sunday as far as Wanganui, the arrangement being that she should continue by, train from Wauganui to Ilawera, whero she was due to raco in the Taranaki Futurity Stakeß. She accounted for the race, being driven by J. Bryce.