TURF CLUB RACES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20070, 17 October 1939, Page 3

TURF CLUB RACES

THURSDAY’S FIELDS FEW DEFECTIONS RAANA DROPS OUT DE FRIEND IN MILE By “Trenton” There were only 14 defections when acceptances closed last evening for the first day of the Poverty Bay Turf Club’s meeting, which opens on Thursday next. De Friend failed to pay up in the hurdles and open “six,” but remains in the Makaraka Handicap. Raana is an absentee and he did not appear to be well treated when the handicaps appeared. The only other local horse that did not pay up was Queen’s Dream in the Hurdles and Nick’s Head Handicap, but she remains in the Roseland and Otober Hack Handicaps. The acceptors are:— DISCOVERY HURDLES HANDICAP, Of £95; If imps.

NICK’S HEAD HACK HANDICAP, Of £95; 1 milii.

FLYING HANDICAP,

MAKARAKA HANDICAP, Of £125; 1 mile.

ENDEAVOUR SCURRY,

ROSELAND HANDICAP,

OCTOBER HACK HANDICAP,

Small Boy 12 5 Whetu 9 0 Birkology 10 2 Sevan Seas 9 0 Paul Kobcson 10 2 Dozie Boy 9 0 Wlia l<no 9 0 Royal Stuart 9 0

Native Song 9 0 Golden Flame 7 1.Mendelssohn S 5 Opoho 7 12 Minnow 8 0 Hetty Bridge 7 12 Ony Laura 8 0 Miss Blue 7 9

Of £90; 0 furlongs. (.■olden Blonde 9 0 (lay Mimic Okawa 8 9 Fairy Foe Bold Step 8 7 ] 0 7 0

JJc Friend 1) PennyHunting Mint 7 10comuiiuick 7 1! Guy -Mimic 7 .10 Skyway 7 0

Of £C,: >; 5 furlongs. Millions s 0 Whnkno 8 0 Native. Chief 8 0 No Wonder 8 0 Dusky Morn 8 0 f'ymetic 8 0 Wnikawn 8 0 River Tide 8 0 Kin tyro 8 o Hunting Kinctfroln 8 0 .Moments 8 0 Tuharukau 8 0

Of is'c 7 furlongs. Birkulogy 11 7 Miss Bln u 1.0 10 (lay Oil uni It Kaliuroa 10 7 Oovclilt 11 0 Koval Stuart 10 7 Quiit'ii’s 12 Dream 1,0

Of .£80; 0 furlongs. Native Sons 0 0 Diana Tutrix 7 10 Minnow 8 "> Qneon's Mimicry 8 2 Dream 7 7 Proclamation 8 .1 Smiling Personality 8 0 Plenteous 7