THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER
1988.
OUTSIDERS SUCCESSFUL AT RESUMPTION OF RACING
GOOD
DIVIDEND
PAID OUT IN MANY EVENTS
MANY CLOSE FINISHES MARK THE MEETING
(By "Captain Foster")
The resumption of Hongkong racing under the auspices of the Hongkong Jockey Club last Saturday at Happy Valley was marked by the popping up of a few rank outsiders of unknown qualities. This was certainly an eye-opener to all followers of the turf. As a result, there dropped from the clouds a few juicy dividends and I am sure that those who had the good luck of approaching the paying counter must have left the racecourse in high spirits.
The first to cheer his crowd of supporters
York was Cape
who romped home third in the Gosford Handicap for "C" class of the Aus- tralian ponies to pay $171 while Dark Hazard (China pony) who inunaged to secure the lowest posl.
OPENING EVENT
All Twelve Entries Face The Starter
The introduction at two sections.
tion in the froine in the Ckur Water in the "B" cinss China ponies was Bay Handicap, delighted his backers | well received by the owners with with $77, The third best return of ile afternoon was by Gold Sovereign who unused his trail of followers with $72.10 for a third place in the Junk Day Handicap. Apart froin the three I have quoted, there were in addition a few more payments of over $40 odd. The result of these excellent dividends for places was alue to the extraordinary public money on certain unplaced
who had no chances what runners soever and in the circumstances this of course helped to swell the pool.
crowd the meeting
+
WAS
Dow
of
and
Selections To Boat
The Book
Eight out of the nine home selections given last week turned out to be correct, and of the four optional selections, only one went awry,
The following are the selec
tions for to-morrow's matches in the Home Football League:
HOME WINNERS
CHARLTON
SOUTHEND
TOTTENHAM
QUEEN'S PARK RANGERS GATESHEAD
ABERDEEN HEARTS
RANGERS
STOCKPORT
OPTIONAL SELECTIONS
LEEDS
BOLTON WREXHAM PRESTON
SERVICES' RUGBY FIXTURES .OFF
open arms, for all the 12 ponies as- signed to the first division in
the opening event, the Tweed Island Bay
London, Sept. 29. Handiesp over a mile, accepted the On account of the international allotment of the lead. As was anti-Club's fixtures have been cancelled situation, all United Services Rugby elpated Moonlight View, the star of until further notice. Reuter's Lain's four nominations, was taken Speckal.
out by H. C. Pih, while Humdrum Eve weighed out with Y. T. Fung. Y. K. Wouh had the choice
Cossack's Beauty and K. 1. Ip was At the re- up on Honeymoon Eve.
Un
the
Wos
Another Victory For Needa
Criffel Finishes Ahead Easily
STADIUM-Here is a view of the nowly unveiled Olympio Stadium In Helsingfors, Paland, whore the 1940 Olympic Games will be hold. Helsingfors recently was chosen as host for the games, after the Japanese government withdrew ita invitation, following much controversy.
UES
Eastern Beat A Scratch Team At Charity Soccer
(By "Abo")
of his
GOOD ENTRIES FOR MACAO RACE-MEET THIS WEEK-END
(By "Captain Foster")
The Macno Jockey Club has again been favoured with fairly good entries for their October race meeting to be held at Macao on Sunday. The opening event will be run át 2 p.m.
The curtain roleer will be the Nanchang Handicap (first scellon) for subscription ponies over a milo and judging by the distribution of
the lend it looks that the winner is to be found among the low weighters, Hogmany, Merry Doer and Victory Lite. Of this bunch I like Merry Doer, and Shanghal 4 should be by now in better conditions. Fuiry Aut has n I load and this may hinder hish.
The Lokchang Handicap is an endurance test over 11⁄4 milles con- fined to those sub-grifins of the Hongkong Jockey Club purchased by the Macao Club on March 10, and the event is to be ridden by novices. All the seven entries are, in my opinion, half milers, but I nominate Cloudy Star, Doddy-Longlegs and Double Up to finish in that order.
In the Nanchang Handicap (second section) for Macao subcription ponies over a mlie, Hopefuller has not been harshly treated and he should give a good account of himself provided he is quite sound. He was a goorl animal Inst season and I saw him
Cricket Interport Now Cancelled
The forthcoming Interport cricket match between Hong-
kong and Shanghai has been cancelled,
In view of the existing con- ditions, the Committee of the Hongkong Club has considered it inadvisable to continue with arrangements for sending a team north, and with great reluctance has notified the Shanghai Cricket Club accord- Ingly.
annexing a few smart events. Gold his own keep. He has a sequence Clause should be respected and I am of ten unplaced outings and it is inclined to believe that Merry Fatty about time that he should be in the will be running out of his distance.
the
ELIGIBLE TO RUN
Emergency Call, who la now in "D" class, is eligible for the Wuchang Handicap (irst section) for "E" class China ponies, ng when Racing was of very high standard lease of the tape Oak Bay, the top
the entry was accepted, he was still
with
in the lost line of defence and is several close finishca coupled with
fully protected by the clause "as large and enthusiastle weighter, made the running with the
without rent of the field following in
class at date of entry." Fur- thermore he has not incurred n doubt a huge success.
rear, but coming down the hill Oak
penalty of 7 lbs. In addition to the The charity soccer match played seemed capable of doing anything: weight allotted for the publication of An interesting feature of the meet-Bay was labouring and so
on the Hongkong FC. ground at but his efforts were nullified by the the Macão handicap was published ing was the success of the northers Soldier of Britain. The ponies were
Happy Valley yesterday was referred ineffectiveness
colleagues after he had won the Clear Water Jockeys who rode all the winners, moving swiftly round the corner, but
to by some people as Eastern v. The Leonard wasted many passes and, on Bay Handicap at Happy Valley. V. V. Needs scoring three and then as they were well bunched, it was; followed C. Encarnaçao with two pretty hard to follow the race. It
Owners Rest, but the team which opposed the whole, was disappointing,
please take a note of this. the Chinese was far from being a The scratch team should have However,
is learned that firsts. The Hapkow rider, P. Y. Wel,
representative "Nest" side, and to drawn first blood when a penalty was Emergency Cali is making the trip who made his debut, piloted his first seemed that Moonlight View was
Following his success Needa scored call it by that name would have been awarded to them for hands against but I don't think he will win for the win on Mr. L. Dunbar's Tampa Bay leading at the entrance of the home another victory on Criffel in the a misnomer. while H. J. Hearne and A. W, Bay-stretch and he was chased closely Vaucluse Handicap, beating Vixen would the gume be called Eastern Leonard sent it hopelessly wide. Chance is definitely going over and Far more accurately an Eastern back. Taking the klek, pony is not a good sailor. Double by Red Feather, New Star, Expres- Tor by one and a half lengths, but v. A Scratch XI; for such it
was. sion Thue and Wild Life with the he had to show the public how to
however. After this let-off, Eastern A. W. Raymond has accepted the The standard of
was
L. Jul and we should therefore by P. Mr. Li Po-chun who scored a double rest following. As they neared the get out of a tight corner and it was the scratch team play and Hau Ching-to finished mount, Stymie will be looked after
due to his hard riding and pushing in the extreme.
movement by beating Muir. victory with Expression Time and
Before the interval, Eastern regis-see a good scramble over half-a- distance, Expression Time (one of that annexed the event for the well almost totally lacking, we fact that
among the en- Expansion Time, but the main event, Necda's usual stuntshot forward in in
known
silver braid) surprising view of the
was formerly the Sub-griffins Autumn Pinte was
a most remarkable way and the owned by the famous old stable the players were drawn from In the second half, play was more owned by Miss Y. Shenton. The nag enptured by Mr. Eu Tong-arn's
John Peel. Vixen Smiling Thru. The stable (Three challenge was accepted by Wild Life this event last year, nearly not the defence which let the team area when in possession and in the likely to upset
Tor, who cap- many different clubs. But it was even. Hossack was fouled in the has never been placed and he is not
the applecart. come) was very nomington, Jacky with the two and Moonlight View. All the jockeys d
brought home the
Gold I heard that bacon for the down so much as the innocuousness resultant penalty be made no mis-
old Coin will not Queen and Cape were hard at work on their racers, second time in succession and I re- of the forwards in front of goal. take with the kick.
leave the Hongkong Jockey Club York, in the Gosford Handicap, the but Expression Time won with the
member
Teams:
stables during the week-end and if; former romping home first and the greatest of case by one and a half maying that she was danger-They were not five men uniting to- latter who was third paid the big-lengths and only a neck separated when negotiating the bend and the they were five individual units each wan, Mui Wa-kwok; Soong Ling-sing, Handicap for "D" class over half-
was loo far out gether to pierce the Eastern defence: Eastern-Lau in-bon; Chiu Po- this be true, the absence of the mare
will
even up terms in the Wenchang gest dividend of the meeting. Among Wild Life and Moonlight View, mare, in my estimation, must have attempting on his own to get the ball Hui King-hsing, Lo Wai-kuen; Chan mile run. National Anthem is there- the ladier, it will be interesting to
was no disgrace to the last named lost at least two lengths. pony who had to concede a good would have paid handsomely if she tunities which they had, it can easily shuen, Au Shi-ngok and Hau Ching-Zero for the lower positions in the She into the net. In spite of the oppor-Yu-sing. Ho Kar keung, Suen Kam-fore my choice with Cuban Love and jump of lead to the winner. Wild
be understood why they scored only to.
mond each had a successful mount.
The most successful owner
was
Imnow that none of their candidates
was placed and it is to be hoped that they will have better luck at the Double Tenth meeting.
Tor
fe also ran, a good race and so did had passed the post first.
New Star who was fourth.
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Smiling Thru |
Carries Off Main Event
Fourth Successive Win For Mr. Eu
CombitPointing off a
Was
shi-nges and Ho Kar-keung-tries and this pony mile. Silver Fox is
frame. once during the game, and this from Scratch XL-Muir; Souza, Fraser; Captain Blood is undertaking on- a penalty..
Havenprolt. Hurenin. Hammond; other trip to pick up some money in On the other hand, the Chinese Roberts, Martin, Hossack, Leonard the Wuchung Handicap (second sce showed good co-ordination in moving and Santos.
tian) for "E" class to provide for the ball upfield. Their finishing work also might have been a lot belter, but they were always harass- ed and their misses were also in a great measure due
the quick! tackling of Souza, Fraser and Hus- sain.
Sul, Eastern found the net] three times and won by three goals!
CHINESE LUCKY
to one.
to
In a way, the Chinese were for- tunate to win by this margin. Only Final Triumph was the only ab- one of their three goals deserv- sentee in the main event, the Sub-ed to find the neta first-me grifins Autumn Plate over die left-foot drive by Hau Ching-to; the champion course and it was indeed other two should have been stopped a very nice thing to see a fleld of
ers. There was some bl
of by ten starters.
Muir. Though they had the harder task money in the part-mutuel on Smillan stopping the nippy Eastern for- Thru who continued his winning wards, Souza and Fraser, the backs vein to register his fourth successive appeared in better light than their win for Mr. Eu Tong-sen. The fir
first
numbers, opposite
Fraser was partl to break through the barrier Dekko
was cularly good with his timely tackles who attempted runaway and saved the side on many occa- tactics, but the pony threw in the sions. Hussain, at centre-half, was towel long before the last quarter energetic and willing, but his efforts bacon was reached. Passing the were stamped with the mark of the four lengths ahead of the pack at the workman rather than the artist.
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The meeting will terminate with a ladies' event and it will not lack the usual keenness and interest.
NANCHANG HANDICAP (FIRST SECTION)
Merry Doer Shanghai 4
Fairy Auk
LOKCHANG HANDICAP
Cloudy Star Daddy-Longiera Double Up
NANCHANG HANDICAP (SECOND SECTION)
Hopefuller
Gold Clause
Morning Tip
WUCHANG HANDICAP
(FIRST SECTION)
Double Chance Stymio
Emergency Call
WENCHANG HANDICAP
National Anthem Cuban Love
Zero
WUCHANG HANDICAP (SECOND SECTION)
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