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AUCKLAND MEETING SECOND DAY RESULTS. WIN FOR SELWYN. (By Telegraph—Press Asociation.) AUCKLAND. This Day. For the second day of the Auckland Facing Club’s midsummer meeting the weather is fine and the course greatly improved since Saturday. The attendance is large. Results; — MOANA HANDICAP. 6 furlongs. 2/2 Selwyn, 9.0 (McKenzie) 1 4/5 Whenua. 7.12 (Murray) ....- .... 2 1/1 British Talent, 8.10 (Wiggins) 3 All started. Won by 11 lengths; a length. Time 1.16 1-5. WAIWERA HURDLES. 2 miles. 2/1 Lapidarian, 10.0 (Cleaver) .... 1 1/2 Kt of Australia, 9.13 (Winder) 2 3/3 Erination, 13.5 (Gilmer) 1 All started. Won by eight lengths, a head. Time 3.47 3-5. SUBURBAN HANDICAP, 7 fur. Paxeno, 8.6 1 Beeswing, 8.2 2 Silver Stick, 8.7 3 Scr —Pasture, Aero Queen. GERMAN DERBY NAME TO BE CHANGED. (Received This Day. 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN. January 28. The'name of the German Derby, which has been run in Hamburg yearly since 1869 is being changed because, according to the “Voelkischer Beobachter,” the bloodstained history of the British Earls of Derby makes the name unsuitable for a Nazi horse race.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1940, Page 6
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