TROTTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1942, Page 6

TROTTING

METROPOLITAN MEETING SCOTTISH LADY WINS DERBY. WORLD’S RECORD BY GOLD BAR. (IBv Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. November 15. The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club's meeting ended yesterday in fine weather and the track was in good order. The totalisator handled £95,847. compared with £85.659 for the third, day last year, which was Metropolitan Show Day. The time of Gold Bar. winner of the New Zealand Pacing Spring Championship. 2.35. was a world race record for one mile and a quarter, the previous best being 2.36 2-5 by Harold Logan and Roi I'Or. Results: — Whiteleigh Handicap, one mile and five furlongs: 1/3, Merry Derby, 1; 6/6, Manian. 2: 4/5. Bomber. 3. Length : four. Time, 3.36 3-5. Ellesmere Handicap, two miles: 2/2, Purveyor, 1; 12/12, Lizzie Woods, 2; 14/14. Conflagrate, 3. A length and a half; neck. Time, 4.25. Lelievre Handicap, two miles: 3/3. Glenariff, 1; 13/12, Jack Sprat, 2; 2/2, Warfield. 3. One length: two. Time, 4.31 2-5. Ollivic-r Handicap, two miles: 8/7, Peter Smith, 1: 2/2, Burt Scott. 2; 11/11. Lady Milne, 3. Head; neck. Time, 4.22 4-5. New Zealand Derby Stakes, for three-year-olds. one mile and a half: 4/3. Scottish Lady (Holmes), 1: 1/1, Captain Morant (F. G. Holmes). 2; 5/5, Radical (Hooper). 3. One length; one and a half. Time. 3.25. N.Z. Trotting Championship, free-for-all conditions, one mile and a quarter: 2/3. Gerfalcon. 1; 1/1. Lament (coupled with Within), 2: 6/7, White Globe, 3. Margin finished first but was disqualified for galloping. Four lengths; half a length. Time. 2.44 2-5. Metropolitan Handicap, two miles: 5/4, Busted Flush (coupled with Special Edituni, 1; 10/10, Shadow Maid. 2: 2/1, Counties, 3. Length; one and a half. Time. 4.23. Now Zealand Pacing Spring Championship, free-for-all conditions, one mile and a quarter: 1/1, Gold Bar. 1: 3/3, Haughty, 2; 2/2, Josedalc Grattan, 3. Three lengths; two. Time, 2.35.