SMALL BOY’S WIN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 163, 10 June 1940, Page 10

SMALL BOY’S WIN.

HAWKE’S BAY MEETING./ SUCCESS OF VASCONES. HASTINGS, June 8. The Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club held the first of its one-day winter meetings today. The weather was brilliantly .line and the track in spring condition .Fields were not large, hut they provided keen racing. The only open flat race was won by Endorsement' and in a three-horse race for the Hawke's Bay' Steeplechase the favourite, Small Boy, won ' comfortably. The totalisator investments w*erb £10,593 10s, compared with £11,166 10s last-year. The comparison is quite a favourable one as the club dropped twice as much as the £573 decrease on the steeplechase alone. .... The three leading jockeys attended tho meeting, and B. 11. Morris improved his score by two points. Broughton and Wiggins failed to pilot a winner. Additional results : WHAKATU HURDLES, of £l5O. About one mile and a-half. —4 Opoho 9.0 (C. L. Kerr) 1, 7 Lovelilt 9.8 2. 5 Son' and Heir. 9.3 3. Also started: 2 Queen's Dream 11.13, 1 Tide 10.0, 3 Limbohm 9.5, 8 Jean Quex 9.0, 6 Lady Chat 9.0, 9 Haile. Selassie 9.0. Two lengths; a length. Time, 2.47. WOODLANDS HACK HANDICAP, of £125. Six furlongs. 4 VASCONES 9.4 (R. Marsh) 1 2 HEROIC MAID, 9.11 (P. Atkins) ... 2 3 SMILING PERSONALITY, 4yrs„ 9.7 (W. J. Broughton) 3 Also started :1 Proclamatoin 9.6, 5 City Song 8.3, 6 Royal Spades 8.0. 1 A length and a-half each way. Royal Spades was fourth. Time, 1.11 2-5. HAWKE’S BAY STEEPLECHASE, of £250. About two miles and a-half. 1 SMALL BOY,. 11.10 (A. E. Lord) ... 1 2 DOZIE BOY (C. L. Kerr) 2 3 SOUTHERN BLOOD (K. W. Savage) 10.2 ... 3 The only starters. Three lengths; a furlong. Time, 5.6 4-5. WINTER HACK HANDICAP, of £125. One mile and a-quarteh— 2 Dunmanway, 8:5 (B. 11. Morris) 1, 6 Arabic 8.12 2, 7 Kihcarole 8.0 3. Also started: 3 Malacca 9.8, 1 Noble Fox 9.5. 4 Red Shoes 8.0, 5 Kehua 8.0. Three lengths; a length. Time, 2.8 4-5. CLIFTON HACK HANDICAP, of £125. Six furlongs and a-half. —2 ..Flying Flag 8.5 (W. J. Mudford) 1, 3 Gay Laura 8.0, 2, 1 Dainty Dell 8.10 3. Abo started : 6 Chandlery 8.4, 4 Shani 8.0 5 Arachne 8.0 A length and a-half; a head. Time, 1.21 2-5. 1-lERETAUNGA HANDICAP, of £l5O. Six furlongs and a-half. 3 ENDORSEMENT, 8.12 (G. R. Tat- ■ tersall) 1 4 HUNTING ROYAL 8.4 (11. N. Wiggins) ... ? 1 NORA GREGOR. 8.4 (P. Atkins) ... 3 Also started: 2 Native Song 9.9, 3 Screen Star 8.4 coupled with Endorsement, 7 Master Cyklon 8.10, 6 Royal Star II 8.5, 5 Solaria 8.5, 9 Padishah 8.0, 3 Hunting Mint 8.0. A length and a-half each way. Royal Star II was fourth. Time, 1.19 4-5.