RACING IN AUSTRALIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1940, Page 3

RACING IN AUSTRALIA

RANDWICK MEETING AJAX. WINS CHIEF HANDICAP. i MOSAIC SCORES TN A.J.C. PLATE. I . By Tolrgrapli—Press Association —Copyright. SYDNEY. March 31. By winning the C. W. Cropper Plate at Randwick on Saturday Ajax carried his winnings to £28.025. which is only £37 10s behind that of his great sire. Heroic. There is a provision in the will of his late part-owner. Mr Baillicu, that Ajax should be sold when his racing career is finished, and it had been arranged that he should be sold next month. However, the present owners are inclined to give him another year's racing, as ho is still very (it. and a popular favourite with racing folk. He will be spelled for a few months. Beaulivre shot his bolt in the Cropper Plate at the home turn. Mosaic surprisingly defeated the mighty Maikai in the A.J.C. Plate, finishing with groat dash, but he showed signs of lameness afterward. Royal Chief finished on gamely in third place. Yours Truly performed only moderately in the Dangar Handicap. The course was in good order and the. heat again very trying for the public and horses. The attendance at Randwick for the whole meeting was much below last year, but the totalisator figures. £190,503. were only £2OOO less. Results:—

Rous Handicap. 8.0 minimum, six furlongs. —Scarlet Circle, 8.6 (David? son) 1; Benburb. 8.1 (Briscoe) 2; Anne. 8.9 (Munro) and Denis. 10,5 (Coutts) dead heat. 3. Head: neck. Time. 1.13 1 ,.

Woollahra Handicap, 7.7 minimum, one mile.—Baveon. 8.5 (James) 1, Knight Folly, 8.4 (Cook) 2, Opportunist, 7.13 (O’Sullivan) 3. Fifteen started. Head; half a head. Time, 1.38.1. C. W. Cropper Plate, 9:5 maximum, 7.0 minimum, seven furlongs.—Ajax, 9.5 (Badger) 1. Gold Rod. 7.12 (Cook) 2, Beaulivre. 8.5 (M. McCarten) 3. Also started: Trimmer. 8.2. The field raced together for four furlongs, with Trimmer showing the way to Ajax and Beaulivre. Trimmer led by two lengths into the straight, where Beaulivre and Gold Rod closed up smartly. Ajax shot to the front at the Leger, and in an exciting tussle with Gold Rod won by a neck, with something in reserve. Beaulivre was two lengths and a half off third. Time, 1,24.1. Fractional times: Three in 35, five in 581. Dangar Handicap, one mile and five furlongs—Own Folk. 8.10 (Munro) 1; Cable Boy, 6.7 (Wilson) 2; Cooranga. 8.3 (McCarten) 3. Eight started, including Yours Truly and Round Up. Length and three-quarters; neck. Timo, 2.44,7. Yours Truly was second at the home turn behind the pacemaker, The Kite, who fit one stage had a 15 lengths’ lead and set a lively pace. Yours Truly, however, weakened two furlongs from homo and finished a poor fourth. Round Up was second last.

Fernhill Handicap, for two-_vear-okls. one mile.—Boxford. 8.8 (Badger) 1. Duke Cullen, 6.9 (Thompson) 2, Chatoona. 7.7 (Duncan) 3. Seventeen started, including Patrician, who finished sixth. Three-quarters of a length; half length. Tidal Wave was fourth. Timo. 1.39. A.J.C. Plate, w.f.a., two miles and a quarter.—Mosaic. 9.0 < Munro) 1; Maikai, .9.1 (IVlornement) 2; Royal Chief. 9.4 (McCartenj 3. Reading and Old Rowley also started. Two lengths each way. Time. 3.53. 1 ,. Final Handicap, one mile and a quarter.—St Constant, 9.3 (Goutls) 1; Bel Oiseau, 7.0 (Whitney) 2, Sidcup. 7.9 (O'Sullivan) 3. Thirteen started Length: head. Time. 2.5 : ;.

MOONEE VALLEY EVENTS

WIN FOR PRINCE SION. BANKSHAW SALUTES JUDGE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE. March 31. At Moonee Valley races on Saturday the following were the principal results:— Moonee Ponds Handicap, one mile and a half. —Prince Sion, 7.7 (Bailey) 1; Rose Princess, 7.7 (Powell) 2; Dignitary, 7.3 (Percival) 3. Eleven started. Four lengths; one length and a half Time 2.331. The Knoll Handicap, one mile — Bankshaw, 8.10 (O. Phillips.) 1; National. 8.10 (Ralph) 2; Meteorical, 7.2 (Percival) 3. Eleven started. One length; one and three-quarters. Time. 1.40.