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Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 31, Number 20. September 3, 1968

Beaten at the post

Beaten at the post

Nine entries faced the starter for the Bridge Cup, run at Auckland over five furlongs, during Arts Festival Meeting this year.

Victoria A (E. N. Lynskey, captain, D. F. McKenzie, C. A. MacLean, M. Newton-House), after being handy early, took the lead after two furlongs, and held it to just short of the line, where the Auckland A team, who had trailed throughout, finished strongly to win by 1 1/2 lengths.

Scores: Auckland A 965, Victoria A 950, out of a possible 1760.

Victoria C, after a slow start, improved steadily and made up a lot of ground, and finished well to take third placing.

In the Pairs Stakes, with 18 starters, the top Victoria pair (Lynskey and McKenzie) took an early lead and were five lengths clear at the turn, but encountered heavy going outside the furlong, and were narrowly beaten at the post by the top Auckland pair (D. Eskermann and T. Winiata), who trailed most of tho race and finished strongly to win by half a length.

Scores: Auckland A 497, Victoria A 492, out of 880.

A big upset was caused when rank outsiders P. Friedlander and G. McLauchlan (Victoria), after a slow start, came home with a withering run to finish a good third, at long odds. (This pair has raced for only six months.)