Sydney Raced In The Slush

NZ Truth, Issue 1237, 15 August 1929, Page 13

Sydney Raced In The Slush

(By Cable— From "N.Z.. Truth's" Special Sydney Representative). THIS nearest. New Zealand got to f winner. Stormy was well winning a race at Moorefield | backed m the mile, and chased on Saturday was when ' the leaders to . the turn,

Catapult ran second to Dainty. Mick m the first division of the sevenfurlong Flying Welter. Heavy rain drenched the track, and as a result the going near the rails waslike a bog. Catapult's rider, keeping' near the fence, threw the race • awa y- " „ . . j The winner finished fast m the centre of the course, thus' avoiding the slushy patches. Doug. Webster started Herbert Gaisford's Statuary m the Three and Four-

where he dropped back and finished fourth. . Maurice McCarten was the only , Maorilander to ride a winner at the meeting, beating the evenmoney pop Luita on Prince Verderer, In a 6.7 . minimum, Nightmarch has been handicapped at 9.4 m the Rosehilf Handicap of ten furlongs,; to be run next Saturday. He is giving Stormy 16lbs. and Papatu twenty -one. • Paganelli is suffering , /

year-old Handicap. He was a poor with a cold and is only, doing light seventh and was never . a likely | work on the track/ -