SPORTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1943, Page 6

SPORTING

CANTERBURY MEETING REHANDICAPS DECLARED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 23. Rehandicaps for the C.J.C. spring meeting were declared as follows:— Middleton Handicap. —Invincible. 10.0. N.Z. Cup.—Battledress, 8.11. Stewards’ Handicap.—Monetary, 8.1. Apprentices’ Handicap.—Caithness, 8.6. Starting times on' Saturday’s programme are: 12.2, 12.42, 1.27, 2.22, 3.7, 3.52, 4.37, 5.22. Training operations at Riccarton this morning were marred by a mishap with fatal results to Donnybrook Fair. After covering about three furlongs at a sound pace, he was seen to falter and was pulled up. It was found that he had broken a hind leg, and he was destroyed. Donnybrook Fair was a five-year-old stallion by Foxbridge from Babel and was raced by Mr J. B. Douglas Clifford. As the number of acceptors for the Apprentices’ Handicap exceeds the safety number at the mile barrier at Riccarton, provision has been made to run the race in two divisions as follows:—First division: Banco, First In, Justitia, Sir Wina, Foxbrae, Royal Piae, Dash o’ Dink, Retriever, Paper Lily, Great Legend, Winning Agnes, Arustra, Waltzing Matilda, Lincoln, Standby, Eddystone, Fluorescent, Authentic, Dark Folly, Irish Note, Whitley, Second division: Tring, Riding Home, Rout, Caithness, Solver, Voltaire, Croupier’s Pride, Saldowa, In Chancery, Gayfort, Contemptuous, Chellow Dene, Night Cheloid, Vafort, Olga’s Choice, Bannockburn, Scottish Lad, Midnight March, Evercalm, Pink Clover, Manakore.