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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
September 13, 1940.
THANDET PHOTMCHE
"Captain Foster's" Racing Review
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RE-COMMENCEMENT AT HAPPY VALLEY
Heavy Over-Subscription for New SEPTEMBER MEETING AT MACAO
Australian Ponies Craigavad May Secure Hongkong St. Leger
WE COME to what news there is at Happy Valley; the best item being that we are to go on racing with no curtailment of anything and it therefore augurs well for 1941's prosperity.
The list of race fixtures under the auspices of the Hongkong Jockey Club for next season shows that the Annual Carnival week of five days of racing will com- mence on February 15, (terminating on the following Saturday), and there are in addition the usual 13 extra race meetings.
The drawing of the new batch j' of Australian subscription grif- fins for 1941's racing has not as yet been announced, but there is reason to belleve that it will take place within a fortnight's time. However, it is learned from a
The consignment was necompanied
The Derby Jinx
BOME FATE seemed to have benet
Mr. Eric Moller's two Derby winnera Skylight and Salintirhi). for both
of them were sent to the happy hunt-
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SELECTIONS FOR SUNDAY Ma Kau Shek Handicap
My selections are as follows:
MA KAU SHEK HANDICAP (FIRST SECTION)
Good Morning
Radium Star Dekko
PARK KAP CHOW HANDICAP
Double Chance
Jack O'Lantern Plate View
MA KAU SHEK HANDICAP (SECOND SECTION)
Mac's Adventure Gallant Marshal New Bedford
Goscombe-O'Sullivan Cup
MA LAU CHOW HANDICAP
Fairy Ank
Merry- Fatty Victory Life
STEWARDS' CUP
Hogmanay
Fairy Quiei. Rothesay Bay
TAI SAM BAR HANDICAP
Black Diamond! Cuban Love Sports Venture
NON-EUROPEANS BARRED FROM BOWLS TOURNEY
Committee's Decision Arouses Indignation
good source that the subscriping grounds on account of colle, tion list (restricted to 125' grif-
It will be recalled that after fins) has been heavily over-most exciting ding-dong race in the nubscribed, and there is no doubt Hongkong Derby run on February that many new owners will be 19. Satintight Just managed to beat Hurford by half length In record left in the lurch.
time of two minutes 50 seconds
IT SEEMS INCREDIBLE that at a time like this and in over, a distance of 11⁄2 miles, but the by a few horsebreakers from the latter got his revenge In the Cham-
& sports function where the vaunted and long accepted plons Stakes. Antigodes, and it was certainly
While on the subject. two more creed has always been that there should be no rank or grand treat to watch these Austro- Itan hoops exercising the grins winners did not last long and they
were Sir Victor Sassoon's liappy Eve race discrimination, the Committee conducting the during the early mornings,
(1937) and Mr. Eu Tong-nen's Hose Goscombe-O'Sullivan lawn bowls shield competition this year should smugly announce that the competition this year is open only to Europeans.
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The
There were a good few silent and Elect (1939). timid ones coupled with the equen-
Does it pay to capture the How lers but the most difcult of all to deal was the sulky creatures who rekong Derby? fused to move nữ inch, while there
The non-appearance of Burford on also several buckers. golden patience, in which the latter the course since the commencement i was handled by the Australian lads, of training has forced the to nase in that the connectionx wh a wonderful display of "good tamper without the use of the whip, do not hold out much hope of start- and it did not take them very long the champion pony in the Hong- to quiet down the sulky ones. To-kong St. Leger on November 18, day, they are as quiet as lambs.
If appearances count for anything. there are several anart youngsters worth having, and though
top
soon to say much, taking everything in the balance, I am sure they will provide good racing
LET
Second Half
and
The bay stallion is on the walk-
ing flat and the gosip is that Bur-
which we all regret to hear.
L. J. SILVA AND
J. F. V. RIBEIRO IN PAIRS SEMI-FINAL
la
ford is affected with skin-disease. Needham & Brooksbank
Overwhelmed 39-9
The passing of Satinlight coupled with the absence of Burford should bring Cruigavad well to the fore as the best stayer in the Hongkong St Leger and it looks to me that Mrs
Taggart's prospects of empharing the
big cinsafe are very rosy. ET us return to the second:
half racing senson, because : +44 it opens next Saturday. Of the remaining classica,
most owned by important ones are the October extremely well
the
Should Provide The Best Competition
Special Cash Sweep
In connection with the Stewards" Cup, which is the major event on the card, (special" dollar, cash sweep limited to 50,000 tickets, Li being run and' the first prize, I understand, will be over, $10,000.
VERY SATISFACTORY. ENTRIES have been "Y" Aquatics
received for the September Race Meeting of the QUARTER-MILE Macao Jockey Club to be held at Areia Prota on Sunday, this being their first Moet after the recess. The opening event will be run at 3.00
p.m.
Excepting the "D" class event with only four nomin- |ations, the field for the other five contests will be above the average and the best will be seen in the two sections of "E" class China ponies.
Opening Event
Ten Best Sprinters In Ma Kau Shek Handicap
THE opening event will be the
Ma Kau Shek Handicap
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CHAMPIONSHIP FOR L. A. BENN
W. S. Gogg Wins Close Breast-Stroke Race
IN THE ASSENCE of G. T. May, who is on the Injured list, I. A. Benn | had a comfortable win in the quirier- mile free-style event at the Euro- chestnot is another equine to-day. [pean YM.C.A. swimming champlon- Sunshine Susie does not appear to ships last night. Ch Arbold;":"| who have summered well and I doubt she was second, was unabło to offer
will make the excursion trip. Rose berlous opposition and was over half Day in looking fit, but it is rumoured that he will not accept.
Ma Lau Chow H'cap
a minute behind,
The 100 yards breast-stroke race was the closest race of tho' evening. W. S. Gegg and M. Quickendon fought a thrilling duel, Gega made use of the "butterfly" stroke, and
(firat section) for "E' class Fairy Auk's Opportunity though, he gained an early lead, he
China ponies and the handicap- per has assigned ten best sprin- ters to this division. The run is
was very nearly boalen on the post when he fired over, the last length.
The results were: _50_yudk-1 X. Goldman (19. 1/5); 3,
EUD.
"Boys! 100 yards-), G.. Saunders
400 yardım), La A. Benn (KIT 1/69 (7.11 475)
100 yards breast-stroke), W. & Cerr (82 2/5); A, M. Quickendon (12 475).
To Make Amends
over five furlongs and the scrum-breakdowns than a cheap alarmy 30/8); 3, a quizendo
FAIRY AUK, who has more ble looks open.
Desert Star, the winner of 10/clock, has cost the pubile a b18 1/31.2. N. McQueen (79 179); 2, 13, Labg. Valley Stakes, is nicely weighted sum of money and he has a good with only 150 lbs., but this chest-chance on Sunday to atone for d (63K 4/6); 2. C. Tantophor nut bas seen his best days and should his incessant failures. he pass the post first, I will certainly
The pony started six times this rulse my topee.
Hopeful Time will have bis frat season and it is to be hoped that. Fairy Auk will break the sequence outing in a new company, but I am by registering his first win for Mrs. afraid that the prospects of his being Gellion in the Ma Lau Chow Han- among the first three are certainly dicap for "y" class China ponies not hopeful.
over six furlongs.
Strong opposition is sure to come
from Merry Fatty and Victory Life.
The Stewards' Cup
Eve Doubtful
give this meeting w zilmś. He ma not' summered, too, well nail the ovner, fi probably not going to take any chances
The pony has been asked to carry 100 lbs in the Stewards' Cup, which Ja, the main event, and the rum' is over a mile..
In his absence Meadow Eve (the winner of the Governor's Cup pre-
Needless to say that among the non-European bowlers of the Government Departments there
THE POSSIBLES a highly incensed feeling. They, however, are not alone in Dr raced in this rection: the
EKKO and Good Morning havo
their indignation for they have latter is well keyed for the scramble. the support and sympathy of When they clashed in the Hark Shanghai 4 And Meadow sented by the late Governor) sumrakk taking part but who had no hand was in receipt of eight pounds most of the European bowlers She Won Handicap (first section)
be the pick, but this grey" is also over half mile, Tim (the winner)
under a cloud and the prospects "of of
weighing out are remote. in the arrangement of this year's lead from the second pony, Radium WHILE WRITING this I have
Of the
nominations remaining competition.
Sur, whereas on Sunday they are to not as yet been able to get a Hogmanay is undoubtedly the best battle on level terms. On the book L. J. SILVA and J. F. V.! It is certainly a situation un-Radium Star is a good speedy mer-racebook, but I was given to 'un with Fairy Duset and Rothesay Ribeiro became the first couple precedented and most distaste-chant over short distances and he understand that Shanghai 4 will Bay for the minor placings.
ful in the annals of Hongkong's should be one of the favourites. be racing under new colours and
Last Event Last Tuesday Dow-Jones lawn bowls history.
exercising with a heavy flennet, but Mr. G. W. Cooper is the new
owner, result of the ruling the am inclined to belleve that the Harbour Department withdrew their grey is still on the fat side and in ink from the competition, while the the circumstances I do not fancy him C.S.O., who had intended entering for a place. [two teams "A" and "B", have now
My best three are Good Morning, only one.
Dekku and Radium Star. King'a Non-Europeans have participated Worthy is good for big money.
in the Open Pairs lawn bowls championship to enter the semi- finals when they trounced C. F. ********** | Needham and A. Brooksbank Μι T KL is looking 39-9 at the Kowloon Bowling
Green Club yesterday.
The Recreio pair were undisputedly the superior Three 's testified to
Week-End Gallops
A D
Handicap, Double Tenth Plate, Hongkong Griffins Cup, Freman. tle St. Leger, Hongkong St.HERE have not been many fast that, and though it might have been in the competition before, and the
the
WOS
gallops over the week-end, but that will the position so hopeless on new nutocratle ruling seems beyond Park Kap Chow i'cap
ponies
Leger, St. Andrew's Stakes and there were a few polished perfor-the 18th head, when the scores were the two Autumn Champions for mances run on Wednesday. Among 28-9 the losers relaxed, nevertheless,
Australian
Connieber
over those inst four heads, the win- Australian and China ponies.
covered a mile in 1.65 romping home hers claimed no less than 14 shots. with 28 seconds for the last quar- ter and this was the best, Of the China class Victoria took 2.12 over
mile while the stable companion. Milva and Humdrum Eve registered 1.37 over six furlongs. Fireworks will be seen to-morrow morning.
Autumn Champions WITH Burford out of the road,
cannot at present Agure any thing to beat Confusion Bay in the Autumn Champlons over 11⁄4 miles, and the bay gelding whileh is now
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Singles Matches
reason
in for the shot, Overy was equally consistent in his bowling, and the
Only Four "D" Entries
OWING to the fact that "D"
match went to 28 heads, the final class China ponies are well pro
score being 21-14 for Ward.
Ward commenced with
翡
vided with contests at the com-
2 and ing meeting of the Hongkong maintained his lead until the 7th Jockey Club, and also on both
head when the score was 5-4. On
the 8th Overy registered the highest days of the Double Tenth Carni- score of the match-a 3-but by the val, the Park Kap Chow Handi- 12th end scores were level 8-allcap has not been able to attract From then onwards, however, Ward more than four "D" class ratera, hod the slightest of advantages, and Being a short jaunt over half mile, was never led again,
it is more than certain that all will Overy's final time of being on make the trip and the order of finish equal terms was when the score was should Double Chance, Jack
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11-all on the 17th end, but even O'Lantern, Plain View and Fei Ying. to as late as the 25th end, when Double Chance has summered well Overy scored a single, the margin and furthermore the dun loves the was only 3 shots, the score being Macao course.
17-14 in Ward's “favour.
Another single on the 20th for Ward put him shots in the lead, and the game was
more Or leas ended when on the following end APART from a 3 and 2 scored by he drew for and scored a 2.
1. Overy and four 2's
scored by
W. Ward, the match between themO
EARLIER RESULTS
Ma Kau Shek H'cap
(Second Section)
A GOOD FIGHT should be two in the First Round of the Bingles At Kowloon Football Club on Weds Kau Shek Handicap for "E" seen in the second section of Championship at the Kowloon E.G.C.nesday C. G. Silva beat V. Atienza last night was very close. Though 21-3 and A. E. Coates beat T. Coleman class China ponies over five fur- Ward was able on most heads to edge 21-10.
Never neglect a scratch-however small, The moment the skin is broken a pathe for germs is opened.
'But surely, just a scratch..ining, non-polson-
Use 'Dettol at once. It is a wespon against infection. Yet for all its high germicidal efficiency, it is
ous, even pleasant to smell.
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longs. Gallant Marshal and -- | New Bedford head the list of handicaps while Old Fashioned, Persian Cat and The Spirit of St. Louis' are at the bottom of the ladder.
On the strength of his fine pes- forrnance in his last outing- New Bedford has plenty of lead to shoul- der and no doubt the young'shaver”. F. 4. Sequeira will and the oppost- ilon strong.
Gallant Marshal is, in my estima- tion, the most dangerous contender, and the moke, is in fine. fettle,
Mao's Adventure has the bad habit of letting one down for no
earthly reason, but I fancy him to win, and my Macao Informant tells me that the iron gray is hard to beat.
OUTSIDER
To upset the applecart I would re- commend punters to back King's Envoy. I was much impressed with his running in the Hark Sha Wan Handicap (second section) when he Anished third behind New Bedford and Mac's Adventure, and the liver
IN the last event, the Tal Sam Bar Handicap for class China ponies However his last outing was over alx furlongs, Black Diamond, poor fourth In the Wan Chai Cuban Love and Sports Venture Stakes run on May 5, and there is should cross the bar in the order I a possibility that Shanghai 4 will have named.
Jel. 28151.
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