UNUSUAL INCIDENTS
(Continued from Front Page.) Mr. Holden had his leg, crushed during a false start. He had to dismount, but remounted and was actually first away from the gate. Black Seal. however, passed him on the bend into the home straight and appeared a certain winner un- til Amulet Star came through with a great burst of speed To snatch an unexpected win, Bugle was fourth.
Moller Crack Beaten
The clash between Lovelylight. the Cire Stable crack, and Oolong was an unexpected one and the result was even more surprising. |
Oolong winning by five length after taking the lead in the ane
stretch
Lovely hight was first out of the barrier, followed by Dolang and Palber, which theer fought out the #nish Wonde,tu Seleme wa Tourth
to remove them to the side of the track before the rest of the field passed the, winning post.
imme-
The doctor's flag was diately hoisted over the Judge's Box, and it was later announced that Mr. Woo was only badly shaken. The pony was destroyed on the track and the carcase re- moved in the horse van,
The race itself provided HF, A. Major-General E. Grasett's with an Sapper (Mr. Davis up)
View, with Far easy win over Viceroy third and Australian Diamond fourth.
A Bad Start
The heavily-backed Bendemeeri (Mr. Needa) was cut of the gate like a flash in the teed section of the Sydney Maxiens, but it lacked a winning finish and did well to tinish fourth.
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National Welfare. Bye lengths! behind Bendemeer
entering i the back straight, slowly caught National Resistance was stopped up mal eventually book the lead in the heme stright, and it wave at the A-mile starting gate to later covered that it had cup-1
go an old win convincingly from tured a tendan It was taken off Happy Returns, which had a poor the course in the horse V2000 TE wan ado Fund that Lovely View fired lame
Led All The Way
was
Distant View (Mr made ragung hot favourite for the Austral Maiden Stakes and, getting away to a flying start, it led all the way round to win hy three lengths from Vis Magor, with Starlight third and King's Wet- rome fourth
start, with the hot favourite Vila- cam M. tiraled even worse at the start, thed
The start was a bad one, Ben- demeer Lang at the football stands efore the last pony had got away in the six Furlongs gate
Left Badly
World Fair View. one of the mara candidates for to-morrow's Denby, was left badly at the start Plate. at the Trial
and was 20
Canberra mide determ ned lengths behind when passing the bud n the back straight, but, after turn for the first time. Velvet- challenging Distant View strong-light, holding the rails, and Eve ly up to the 1 mile gate, it fad- of Deception and Raconteur ni ed out of the picture and Anished the outside. sixth
A Luxurious Time was bad'y left at the start, which was not a good ene
Pony Destroyed
straight were in a
line at this point but coming into the back stretch Raconteur took th lead. with Velvetlight half a length behind and Eve of Decep- tion some five lengths in the rear. This order was inaintained till coming into the home stretch
The Coral Handicap provided ; when Raconteur bored out
CHINA MAIL RACING EXTRA, FEBRUARY 17, 1941.
STOP PRESS
O fan, V. V. Needa up, which caused a big upset in the He broke the first race of the day, being led in this morning. course record for a mile and three-quarters by more than six
reconds,
ITALIANS
IN U.S.
PROTEST
HUGE FIRE RAGES AT SANTANDER
A huge conflagration
the first accident, Jungle P’'meess, badly and lost valuable ground, Two thousand Italians broke out
belonging to Mr. S. W. Chan and Velvetlight going on to win com- and Italian Americans
ridden by Mr. D. C. Woo, conring, fortably from Eve of Deception. 30 per cent. of them men
down at the Golf Club corner.
As it was lying last in the field of nine starters It must have crossed its legs and come down.
Favourite Wins
The favourite won the Bendigo Both pony and rider lay motion-Handicap when Fair Chance, id- Jockey Club officials all their time (Continued at foot of next Col.)
Jess un the ground, and it took the
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--attended a big anti-Fas- Cist meeting organised by the Mazzini Society at the Cooper Union Hall in New York last night.
around San-
tander harbour early this
First news of
the
fire
was
morning. Upwards of 200 buildings are ablaze. brought to Madrid by motor cyc- from the lists carrying appeals
for Civil Governor of the city help and supplies.
All fire brigades from Madrid, Valencia, Vallodolid, Burgos, San Professor Saivemini, after pay- Sebastian and Bilbao were imme- ing a tribute to President Roose-diately despatched to Santander. velt, said: "If Hitler wins Italy becomes a German colony.
not "The Italian people have been defeated. The King, Musso- lini, the last two Popes and Car- dinals have been defented.
"Italians refuse to fight in a dishonest war."
A large quantity of supplies and a detachment of army and po lice were sent to the burning city from Burgos.
At the height of the bluze com- munications with Santander were Max Ascoli, President of the So- cut and it is difficult to get latest about casualties. It is ciety, said that the freedom and details unity won by Italy had been tak- known, however, that one has been en away from her people who had, killed and several injured. been fooled by Fascism.
It is believed the fire was caus-
He added: "Now is the time for ed by a burning tanker-Reuter. Italians throughout America to
aid the Anglo-Saxon ideal. It is
up to these who have Anglo-Sa-
xon liberly to teach the Italians of Italy what freedom really is.". --Reuter.
NAZI AIR RAIDS
There has been little enemy air activity over England since yesterday.
Towards nightfall last night a single enemy aircraft dropped a bomb on a north-east coast town where a few houses were dam- aged and a small number of cas-
ualties resulted.
At about the same time bombs were dropped in East Anglia, causing neither damage nor cas- ualties.
An Air Ministry communique says there was nothing to report during the night. - Reuter.
den by Mr. Wei, won by 14 lengths from Springhurst with Vixen Tor third and Many Thanks fourth,
Rowan and Income Tax set the pace early on but Income
Tax soon dropped out of the race and Rowan faded out of the picture on tho, bend into the home stretch. Vixen Tor might very easily have won had it not bored out on this same bend.
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NO RETURN
TO PRE-WAR WORLD
In the course
of a
12. — AUSTRALIAN STAKES-One Mile.
VALLEY
Shields & Stantons' Manhat-
tan, 149 lb. (H. J. A. Hearne)
S. W, Lee's Jus Gentium, 150
lb
(M. M. Sokoloff)
Mrs. Chuong Ho Yen's Endea
1
2
3
vour, 152 lb. (P. T. Wel) 24 Starters. Won by 4 lengths;
3 lengths, Time: 25.4; 52.4; 1.22;
1.48.
Pari - mutuel.winner $51.10; places, 1st $9.90; 2nd $36.70; 3rd $6.10.
Cash Sweep
No 2943
$2545.20 727.20 636.60
881 3645
Unplaced rumers ($50 each), Nos.: 5314, 215, 1959, 2122, 4575, 5707, 653, 3071, 6354, 257, 728, 825, 2082, 391, 2968, 1791, 3189, 5540, 3882, 6275, 3801.
The Daily Double combina- tion Sapper and National Welfare paid $81 70.
Endeavour, a red-hot fav- ourite in the Australian Val- ley Stakes, was beaten in a big field, being no less than lengths behind the winner, though it was boxed in early en and come through,
seven
could not
Club corner At the Golf The Koala Bear went down, unseating its rider, Mr. S. W. Tang, who was removed from the course in an unconscious condition.
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than ever and it is upon a founda- tion of properly planned organis- ed people that the future welfare of the world will rest.”
Concluding the Lord. Privy Seal spoke of the Meana" Test Bill which, he said, had swept away the old conception; that the cars of those rendered in< digeht through circumstances outside their own control was
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