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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1933.
WEEK-END SPORTING ACTIVITIES
DAY OF SENSATIONS AT HAPPY
VALLEY
DIANA BAY BEATEN BY SADKO: COO COO BAY MANY LENGTHS BEHIND COSSACK'S BEAUTY
CLARK WINS BOTH SUBSCRIPTION GRIFFINS EVENT WITH THE GOAT AND SWALE
(BY MORNING DEW").
THOSE WHO HAVE FOLLOWED LOCAL RACING FOR SOME YEARS WILL LONG REMEMBER THE FIRST DAY OF THE 1933 MEETING AS ONE OF THE MOST SEN- SATIONAL EVER SEEN ON THE HONG KONG COURSE, TROM START TO FINISH THE SURPRISING, ELEMENT PREDOMINATED, AND IT LOOKS. VERY MUCH AS IF THERE ARE STILL QUITE A NUMBER OF UPSETS IN STORE DURING THE BEST OF THE MEETING,
Early on Saturday morning, it became known that Mr. Pearce's King Salmon, favourite for the Valley Stakes could not start because of a sudden attack of oblic. Then, in the Maiden States, Coo Coo Bay, carrying the bulk of the batting, went ander, and before the lunch interval there was one more eventful occurrence, Portia, the favourite for the Sydney Maidens disappoint Ing her backers. In the afternoon things went much as expected until the last race, when the biggest sensation of the day occurred. Diana Bay, unbeaten Champion of the Hong Kong track for three years, suffered her first defeat, by Badko,
UNREASONABLE PUBLIC LEARNS A LESSON!
firat
Oh Yeah (Needs)...... Poverty Bay (Frost) 00 Ta Feastie (Caplan) 17 The Goat (Clark).... 464 The Leprechaun...
(Pearso) In the last race Diana Bay mono-Tip Top (Black)
J
12
$168
28
181
3
(Soares)
20
35
1,505
Bace 2.
Messrs. Dunbar and Reidy's
Champagne Bay
the gate went up, Mignonette shot through in the straight to win, but out as if discharged by a catapult.not without a terrific struggle with Ip Kui Ying who was riding estabJungle Jim. Tenorio was a good lished a very long lead after the third.
How Diana Bay Lost: three furlongs. Meanwhile Cossack's Beauty and Coo Coo Bay both had to struggle against the ground they lost at the start.polised the betting. The opposi White Butterfly. Heard got Cossack's Beauty going tion consisted of King's Bounty, after the first furlong and the pony With her huge strido, Diana Bay Don, Dee, Sadko and Gold Mine. worked off the gap between him self and Mignonette slowly but kept up with King's Bounty over steadily, but Coo Coo Bay could the first six furlongs, and then com not be got going until the firsting into the straight drew away by quarter mile was over and when the song lengths when Hill dropped her pony, began to move there was too into a steady canter. Meanwhile big a task ahead of her. However Don and Sadko, having been within Hill managed to catch up Mig striking distance of the leaders be- nquette in the straight and finished gan to make up ground on rench- second, many lengths behind Cosing the straight and Needa drove Back's Beauty.
Sadko beautifully to make the pony do a wonderful fait quarter. From the grand stands it seemed that before Hill realised that there was any real challenge being offered, Sadko had passed Diana Bay and bad won! The challenge was ab- solutely unexpected and the specta- tors were dumbfounded when they saw it, but they gave Needa a terrific ovation for his effort when Sadko was led in by his popular owner, Mr. A. M. L Soares,
Dead Heat,
The two best fancied ponies for the Cosmopolitan Plate dead-beated for first place. Banjolina showed plenty of pass all the way round and lay handily close to the leaders until the straight when Mr. Roza askod the pony for an effort and received immediately response, but at the same time Li, on Valley Hall, got going: on the outside and after a terrific duel the two ponies flashed past the winning post together, The judges were unable to separato the two and swatiled h dozd-heat. Amoy was a good third.
Another Hot Favourite Fails,
RESULTS
Race 1,
Portia was very heavily backed Mr. Mayfoong's The Goas in the Sydney Maidens and had she
(Mr. A. F. Clark) won would have paid less than | Mr. Sureton's Jack O'Lantern evens. As it was, the favourite was !
move on until the field was well lega
way and she finished last.
1
(Mr. T. L Wong) 2
(Mr. S. N. Pan) 3 Won by three lengths; a length between second and third.
Time: 69.2. Becs.. Pari-mutuel -
Bay was second in demand, but car- ried only one-third the tickets on Blue Star, Champagne Bay, beauti-eft at the start, and did not get a Mr. L.T.F.'s Gold Box fully handled by Ma. Hill won the race to pay $22. Li on Blue Star was content to ride behind" Pride of Tsingtao and Daylight Eve, both of which set out to make the pace. Champagne Bay hung on the heels f Blue Star bat when the latter failed to shift up rounding the
Winner: 80.40.. Place: $7.00; $25.10; 830.80. Betting.
Winner Place,
In one sense it was not a bad
The Goat Wins, thing for local racing to see Coo
Coming now to the racing itself. Cor Buy defented. The public ex-In the Wong Nei, Chons sunkes the pected this to be a wonder pony, favourite. Won easily, thanks to a pony absolutely unbeatable. Out of bit of good handling by Clark. the 1,875 tickets pirs on the "pari" Taking advantage of a good start no less than 1,484 were on Coo Coo Jack O'Lantern led most of the way Bay. Even assuming for a moment and would have sprang a surprise that Coo Coo Bay was all that was too, had Clark not come through at made out she was certainly not the distamos post with The Goat worth 501 on! Had she won, the to win just as he liked. There was Village; Hill sent up his mount and over the first, half mile. With the Auction Bridge dividend would have been 85.10 for a vet just man bed to act and Gold Box managed get win. What untried griffin is worth there ahead of Black Rock. There these oh Practically the same were twenty-one starters in the first thing occurred in the last race. The race, public, were willing to take 10 cents for their on the unbeaten chure-
Favourite Fails.
drew level with them in the straight, winning ultimately by three lengths.
The First Big Upset, In the Maiden Stakes, as prediet- ed, several sprinters faced the In the Old Course Plate over a starter and it was surprising to see plom, and while there was plenty mile and a quarter Blue Star was what a red-hot favourite was made of justification for hacking Diana made a hot favourite, and the of Coo Coo Bay. There were Bay 50-1 inst the field ?
Daily Preis selection, Champagne twelve starters in the race. When
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Placed their bets and laughed aloud.
But the pony that he chose
Frisked her tail and blew her nose, Said she did not care to run, Round the Valley in the sun, Angelina tossed her head," "You're a help" was all she said.
Edwin offered tea, champagne, Cakes and chocolates, all in vain. Timidly again he spoke-
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Night Star ridden by Li won the raco easily, coming home. five lengths in front of City of Brisbane with The Raincloud third, three quarters of a length behind. Ngtuk and Ros Morn were both unplaced, bub the former. made a good, show exception of Portia the rest of the field was very evenly backed, and twelve of them would have paid over [10-3 for a win.
(Heard)-57 Black Rock:
(S. Y. Liang) 47 Brown Willy
(Proulx) Double Eagle
(Chanson) Gold Box (Pau) Gold Bridge Golden Dragon Heather Leaf
Old Stalwart Wins, Sitting Bull entered his sixth rac- ing year's on Saturday and appears as strong as over. Starting in the Foochow Cup, the pony carried half the betting and won by a length and a half after a very interestinig. race in which Frost displayed grout riding skill to wrest, the honours in the straight from Gay Crusader. Hocolulu Moon King's Justice was third and power- {" ful King fourth, about a furlong Iron Gray
behind.
· Another. Pavotirite Out of It. Black Velvet was nindo a fav- ourite for the Valleys in the ab sence of King Salmon but the pony, finished among the also rans after being jammed out at the start. The fold, was let off evenly but the rush for position was terrific and Black Velvet was squeezed back. Iron Groy started a second time, after tailing in the Wong Nei Chong Stakes and led all the way until the straight was reached, when Swale and Hey Tor passed the leader finished in that order. Flying Boy just got into third place.
Trentbridge's Exercise. Trentbridge went for an exercise gallop in the, Trial Plate where he was opposed to a field of six. The opposition were not even "B" Clais ponies, in my opinion. As a result Needa just sent the pony out carly on and ran his own race, The rest of the field, many lengths be hind, fought the issue oul between themselves and Spotted Butterfly and Solar Star finished second and third, respectively. If anyone had said a week ago that Spotted Butterfly would be placed second in the Trial Plate and would only: pay || 85.00 for a place, he would have been recommended for the Lunatic Asylum, but so poor was the field that opposed Trentbridge, on Satur day that strange though it may sem, such a thing did happen!
Another Dead Heat,
In thỏ China Stakes over five furlongs Cyclamen Bay commanded most of the botting- but the "pony did not have things all his own way in spite of the able services of Mr. Frost Hetman came along with n big rush in the straight and after a gruelling struggle in which he dis- puted every inch of ground, dead- heated with the favourite, Bag and Bagelige was third, two lengths be hind
a
Frost Wins Again Frost won the next, race, the Woollabarn, Plate over six furlongs, with The Giraffe Thefeld-lined. up in a perfectly straight line be hind the gate but The Giraffe was the first to spring out and led all the way, home. Friar Tuck put up a surprisingly good performance to finish second and had the pony any thing like the start The Giraffe had, might have won, Evening Star was third, AG
Hopeful Stakes, a Some very bad riding was seen in this race and one pony at least was soon to run all the way, on the outside of the course before peter- ing out in the straight. Brechin won this event by a short head from Jungle-dials/sask ventoideo)-with-- Tenorio third. Brechin stayed in the middle of the field and was not an effort until the first
win sovest when » Clark-
nut, and "be", câme
(G. Roza) 25
(Miles) 23
(Carroll)
72
13
6
ྤལུ་ཕོ་
(Mr. W. Hill)
Mr. Tally Ho's Daylight Eve
(Mr. A. F. Clark)
i
Mr. S. W. Tang's Pride of Taing-
tho...(Mr. A. J. P. Heard) 3 Won by three lengths four lengths between second and third. Time: 2 mins, 36.8 secs.. Pari-mutuel and Winner: $22.00. Place: $8.80; $18.80; $17.10.
Betting.
Mignonetto
(Ip Kui Ying) #1 Stickypast (Black) The Loafer (Poy) The Roundhead -
"(T. L, Wong)" 18
Race 4.
03
1,675 9,335
Mr. Mok Hing Wing's Banjolina
(Mr.:0. Roza)
Mr. Valley's Valley Hall.
(Mr. D. S. LA) -1*
Mr. 0.0.C.'s Amoy S. Mar
(Mr, S. N. Pan) 3
Dead heat for first place; won
by three lengths.
Time: 2 mins. 20,4 seos Pari-mutuel
Winner: 87.10 for Valley Hall;
$7.20 for Banjolina.
Place: $8.50; 88.60; $10.80.
Betting
Winner Plncо Amoy (Pan)
1945-219)
797 Banjolina (G.; Roza). '700 Winner Place City of Shanghai
pres (T. L. Wong) 436 (Fung).10 Cy-Pres
Ajax (G. Rom) Blue Star (D. S. LA) 921 Cabinet Hall (Black) Californip
3
3
(T, I Wong) " 44. Champagne Bay
(Hill) ais
Daylight Eve (Clark) 165- Indiana (Fung)
Mon Talisman
(Noeds)
Navy Hall (Soares)... 22 Orlando (Proul) Pride of Tsingtao
(Hoard) 105 The Lion (Butler)....
2
1,504
Race 3. Messrs. H. S. Chan' and S. W. Tang's Cossack Beauty
(Mr. Heard) 1 Mr. L. Dunbar's Coo Coo Bay
· (Mr. W. Hill) - Messrs. Li and Li's Mignonette
(Mr, Jp Kui Ying) 3
Won by many lengths; four length between second and third.
Timo: 1 min. 29,2 secs. -- Pari-mutuel
Winner: $81.00,
Place: $5.20; $6.10; $5.30.
Alaska (Liang)
Betting.
Bootie (Pearse)
Coo Coo Bay (Hill)...1,484
(Young)
(Ip Kui Ying), 145
233
Winner Place
I 90 1 20 1,770
Jack O'Lantern
Cossack's Beauty
(T. L. Woung) 10. Little Rock
$
59
(Heard) 91
Eak (Clark)
18
449 138
4
100
King's Company
(Q. Roza) Magnolia
(Tong Man Wa)
2
12
(A. Botelho) Lucky Star (D. S. Li) 30 Myreside
(Yue Shun Wa)
AN EASY FIRST:
ALSO PACKED IN REGULAR 2018 501
Golden Arrow
(Nceda)
Helvellyn (Buder).... 16
| Mistletoe
Msp Kui Ying) 80 The Crook (A Roza) 48 The Rainstorm -..
דיי
(Hürriman) - 40° Valley Hall (D. S; Li) 791 Whoopee (Noronha).
Race 5
494
.168
803
20
2,317 2,045
Mr. E.S.K.'s Night Star
(Mr. P. 8. Li) Mr. A. E. M. Rafeek's City of
Brisbane...(Mr. E. O. Butler) 2 Mr. Rain's Raincloudfa
(Mr. A. J. P. Heard) 3. .....Won by five lengths; three quary" ter of a length 'between second and third.
Time1, min. 22.3 secs..
Pari-mutuel i
Winners #84.00.
Place: $10.00;, $15.00; $16.50.
Betting
City of Brisbane
Winner Place
(Butler) 990
Cossack's Choice
(Neoda)
Encounter Bry
Golden Dawn
(T. Wong) 14 Ngtuk (Bewell)....... 181 Night Star (D. 8. Li) 190 Northern Star (Pan) Pick-Me-Up (Pearse), Portia (Frost) 1143- 74 Rosy Mora (S. Roza) 150
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