LATE SPORTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 March 1939, Page 6

LATE SPORTING

AUSTRALIAN RACING THE SYDNEY CUP. DEFAULTER THE RULING FAVOURITE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Should Defaulter, who is the ruling favourite for the Sydney Cup, not start in the Rawson Stakes tomorrow he will give an exhibition gallop with the colours up. Defaulter yesterday defeated Silver Standard over a mile at Randwick in 1.48 J. As the flags were out seventy feet on the course proper the time was good. MANAWATU MEETING TRACK IN SPLENDID ORDER. HURDLES TO SUNEE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N„ This Day. The Manawatu Racing Club’s meeting is being held today in fine weather, though it is slightly overcast. The track is in splendid order, and the attendance large. Results: —

KARERE HURDLES, IJm. 3 Sunee, 10.0 (Lord) 1 6 Riotous, 10.10 (Carroll) 2 2 Entheos, 10.10 (Tito) 3 Won by half a length with the third horse two lengths away. Time, 3.12 4-5. Scr: Red Rufus.

WOODLEY HANDICAP, 6f. Deficit, 7.9 1 Blonde Princess, 7.13 .... Scratched: Ecstatic.

AUTUMN PLATE. 7 fur. 1 Cuisinier, 8.7 (Callahan) 1 4 Tom Tom, 8.7 (Tattersall) 2 7 Verey Lights, 8.7 (Chaplin) 3

Cuisinier won by a neck. Very Lights was a head further back. Time 1.29. Scratched—Cuddler.