CLASSIC EVENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 996, 12 June 1930, Page 14

CLASSIC EVENTS

ENTRIES DUE AT 5 P.M. TOMORROW AUCKLAND CLUBS’ LISTS Entries for classic races ahead for the great majority of racing clubs in the Dominion close tomorrow, Friday. These include the Auckland Racing Club (5 p.m.), Avondale Jockey Club (5 p.m.), Takapuna Jockey Club (5 pm.). Feilding Jockey Club. Wanganui Jockey Club. Manawatu Racing Club, Wellington Racing Club, Canterbury Jockey Club and Dunedin Jockey Club The events staged by the three l Auckland clubs for which entries close | at 5 p.m. tomorrow, for now yearlings are: Auckland Racing Club Welcome Stakes (1930), of £1,000; five furlongs. G. N. Foal Stakes (1930), of £1,250; six furlongs. 36th Royal Stakes (1931), of £750: six furlongs (for three-year-olds as well as two-year-olds). G.N. Champagne Stakes (1931), of £1,000; seven furlongs. G.N. Guineas (1931), of £1,000: one mile. G.N. Derby (1932). of £2.500; 1J mile?*. G.N. Oaks (1932), of £700: H miles. G.N. St. Leger Stakes (1932), of £750; l : i miles. Avondale Jockey Club Avondale Stakes (1931), of £500; live furlongs. Avondale Guineas (1930). of £500; one mile. All Aged Stakes (1931), of £500: six furlongs.

Takapuna Jockey Club Entries for events for two-year-olds and upward for— Takapuna Plate (1930), of £500; seven furlongs. Hack conditions. Wynyard Plate (1931), of £500; seven furlongs. Full particulars and conditions of all the above events are advertised in the “New Zealand Referee.” HABIT’S OWNER RETURNS TWO MORE RACES FOR FILLY Mr. H. McManaway, who took Habit to Sydney some time ago, arrived back last week. Habit is to race at Randwick on Saturday, and at Rosehill the following Saturday. She will then be shipped back home. MIGHT HAVE CHOKED A correspondent sends this about an American and an English Tommy who became friendly toward the end of the war. Each boasted of his swimming capabilities, until the Yank said finally; ‘’Well, anyway, I betcha five dollars you couldn’t swim the Amazon.” ‘‘Why not,” said the Englishman, “what’s the matter wiv the Amazon?” “Full of alligators,” replied the Yank. However, the bet was duly recorded, and years later these two met, whereupon the Englishman instantly demanded payment of the five dollars, claiming to have swum the Amazon. “But say,” exclaimed his friend, ‘how did you escape them alligators?” “Easy,” replied the Cockney. “I got me wife to mike a bathin’ costoom outer the Union Jack, wiv ‘America Won the War’ printed on the back, and of course not even an alligator could swaller that.”