WYNYARD PLATE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 323, 7 April 1928, Page 9

WYNYARD PLATE

TAKAPUNA’S NEW RACE TRIBUTE TO FINE SPORTSMAN The committee of the Takapuna Jockey Club has decided to fittingly commemorate the memory of the late Mx*. Robert Wynyard, who for many years held the position of secretary to the North Shore club, for which body he worked most zealously and won wide popularity. This is to take the form of a special race, which is to bear his name, and is cast as follows: “The Wynyard Plate, of £600; (for now two-year-olds and upwards). Winner to receive £4OO and a gold cup to the value of £so; second horse £SO, and third horse £4O. For three-year-olds and upwards (age at time of race) that have not won a flat race of the value of £250, or flat races of the collective value of £ 500, at time of starting. Three-year-olds. S.O; four-year-olds and upwards. 5.9 Maiden three-year-olds at time of starting allowed 71b; four-year-olds and upwards, 101 b. Seven furlongs. It has been decided to place the new race on the second day’s programme of the summer meeting of 1929. Mollison’s Affliction Victoria’s unbeaten two-year-old champion. Mollison, gave his connections a scare a fortnight ago. After having returned from early morning exercise, he seemed in normal condition, but suddenly was affected with internal pains, and became quite lame. Later in the day he shook it off, and at the track was again quite normal, and worked satisfactorily. There has been no recurrence of the trouble. Mollison has not begun to show his paces at Randwick yet. and watchers are eagerly awaiting his speeding up in order to see how he takes to righthanded galloping.