RICARTON RACES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 18, 5 February 1937, Page 9

RICARTON RACES

"The Barb.")

One-Day Meeting TO-MORROW'S PROSPECTS

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The one-day midsummer meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Club will be held at Riccarton to-morrow, when the most important events to be contested are the Middle Park Plate and Mid summer Handicap. The former event, for two and three-year-olds, has drawn a field of nine runners, three of which, Paper Slipper, Mob Rule and Lazy- , bones, haii from the successful train ing establishment ot H. and A. Cutts. , Paper Slipper and Mob Rule will Le » bracketed, but Lazybones, being of different ownership, will be a unit on j his own. This event, like many of the ' past, will be a racing attraction. Royal Chief, who defeated Francis Drake in the Great Northern Foal Stakes at , Ellerslie last Boxing Day, adds great interest to the Middle Park »'late. The Mijs iumer Handicap has attracted eorne ct ihe best So^to lelami j handicap horses, .and in view of the j approaching Dunedin Cup, the running | of Argentic, Queen of Song, Davolo, Tunneiler and Viritage (now down in the weights) will be eagerly watched. The minor events have filled better ^han usual, and they, too, should furnish contests abcve the average. Speculation may be brisk on the following contestants : —

HORNBY BRUSH HURDLES, 1J mile. — ^Hunting Bag, Polydora, Santoft. TRIAL PLATE, 6 furlongs.— Rebel Mate, Nightbound, Luetral. MIDDLE PARK PLATE, 6 furlongs. — Royal Chief, Paper Slipper — Mob Rule bracket. MIDSUMMER HANDICAP, lj mile. — Queen of Songt Argentic, Wild Chase. HALSWELL HANDICAP, 9 furlongs. — Lofty, Willie Win, Cerne Abbas. LYTTELTON PLATE, 5 furlongs— Haughty Winner, Top Row,x"Garonne. CRAVEN PLATE, 7 furlongs— Concertpitcht Arrow Rose, Knockfin. POST HANDICAP.— Roaming, Palmj'ra, Glenavon