THE TURF GREAT AUTUMN TO KARTIKEYA

Grey River Argus, 31 March 1948, Page 3

THE TURF GREAT AUTUMN TO KARTIKEYA

Great Easier Handicap to. False Step Results: — Kildare Hurdle Race Handicap: 2— TURF TOPIC 1; I—Battle Chief 2; 4—Liquidate 3. Also started Roman Son. Eight' lengths; .12 lengths. Time 3min 14 l-ssec. Champagne Stakes 3,'3 TOP DECK (C. T. Wilson 1; 1/1 Magical 2; 2/2 Resolute 3. Also started Card Money, Running Brook, Assault. Neck length. Time lmin 10 l-ssec. Autumn Plate: 3/3 GRANDE MELEE (J. S. Lundy) 1; 1/1 Bobby Dazler 2: 2/2 Arctic Circle 3. Also started: Royal Robe. Wee Mac, Responsive, Speedy, Kill Fast, Stately Lady, Show Boy, Ned Kelly. Little Billy. Length; neck. Time: 2min 8 4“ssec Courtenay Handicap: 1/1 WINTER SWEET (J. McFarlane) 1; 6/6 Love Letter 2; 10/10 Moonlit 3. Also started: Helio, Sorry, Phalenor. Our Style, Gay Fellow, Gold Medallion, Loch Lennox, Mercurious, Money Lender, Periwinkle, Regal Lily, Song Dress. Length; two lengths. Time lmin 27 3-ssec. GREAT EASTER HANDICAP Of £2OOO. Seven Furlongs. 2/2 J. C. Mair’s FALSE STEP by Fhaleron Bay—Tripping 4yrs 7-2 A. C. Messervy 1 1/1 H. Edginton’s Desert Girl 4yrs 5.13 L. J. Ellis 2 13/13 T. A. M. and W. G. Quirk’s Flving Orders syrs 7.7 car. 7.91 D. J. Thistoll I 5/4 G. Hall’s Kirkella syrs 7.0 M. R. Jones t 1 Dead. heat. Also started: 3/3 Voltiac; 12/10 Lexia: 11/12 Theocritus; 8/9 Patmos: 4/5 Ladyship; 7/7 Revolte; 14/14 Clyde Bridge; 9/8 Martial Note; 10/11 Palomino; 6/6 Play Boy. One length; two lengths. Time: lmin 24 3-ssec. Russley Handicap: 4/4 SKYZAMI (M. Walker) 1; 2/2 Beaugency 2; 3/3 Don’t Listen 3. Also started: Musselman, Chord, Cyrano, Iron Trail, Highway, Infatuate, Hat rack. Courier Lovely ’ Lady. Blue Print. Brcrdock, Discord bracketed Don’t Listen, Excellent Flight Idle Jest bracketed Metif. Head; length and a half. Time 59 3-ssec. Great Autumn Handicap: 6/6 KARTIKEYA (K. Ford' 1; 271 Signal Officer 2: 8/8 Detain 3. Also started Snare Part. Indian Dawn Desert Fox Eriskav, Gay Stroller, Thornbridge, Grill, Fine Night, Nightchild, burn. Length and a half, head. Time 2min 33 2-ssec. . Papanui Handicap: 3/4 RONALD MACDONALD (L. J. Ellis) 1; 1/2 Wide Range 2; 2/1 Bay Fort 3. Also started Deficiency, Repudiate, Pestee. l.e Sonnet, Coxswain, Flying Control, Te Wanaka, Royal Flash, Maka Maka, Detract. Great Victory, General Argosy, Siegwood. Neck: two lengths. Time lmin 24 4-ssec.

RIDER SUSPENDED CHRISTCHURCH, March 29. D. J. Thistoll. the rider of Love Letter in the Courtenay Handicap at Riccarton t yesterday was, suspended for one month by the Canterbury Jockey Club’s judicial committee “on a charge of careless riding, thereby causing interference to Loch Lennox near lhe five furlongs.