TROTTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 151, 29 June 1927, Page 13

TROTTING.

WHEEL AND TRACK NOTES. (By ORION.) FIXTURES FOR THE SEASON. July 2—Ashbiirton County Racing Club. July 21—Waimate Hunt Club. July 23—South Canterbury Hunt Club. August 6, 10, 12—Metropolitan Trotting Club. The New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club has put on an attractive programme for its August meeting. Nominations close on July 14, at noon. GLANDORE GOES SOUTH. The speedy, but somewhat disappointing Glandore, is to be given an opportunity to make good in the South, and the roan pacer has gone into D. Bennett's stable. On several occasions Glandore has demonstrated that he has sufficient pace and stamina to win a big race, but his habit of losing a lot of ground at the start has always militated against his chances. If Bennett can get him to jump into his starts and settle down to pace at the start he would not be long in winning a good stake. DIRECT WOOD SOLD. After the race for the Adams' Memorial Cup at Epsom last week, Mr. Barton was anxious to reduce his team, and two of the horses he offered for sale were the trotter Napland and the pacer Direct Wood. Apparently there were no buyers in Auckland, and both were returned South. However, since reaching Christchurch Direct Wood has been sold to a patron of A. Hendricksen's stable, and will in future be a companion to Cardinal Logan and Co. Although beaten out of a plaee in her Auckland engagements Direct Wood went a fair race each time, and should pick up a stake in her turn PETERWAH AT ADDINGTON. Peterwah, recognised as in the very first flight of the Dominion's best trotters, did not return to Gisborne after the Auckland meeting, but was taken on to Christchurch in order that the chestnut may be specially prepared for the August meeting of the Metropolitan Club at Addington. With Escapade also on hand it Addington in August, the meeting of the pair in the big trotting events will Teate interest. METROPOLITAN TROTTING CLUB. The annual report of the Now Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club state* that the year's operations show a profit of £30W». This, the committee feelsure, will be accepted by members' ;i----very satisfactory, considering tinrestricted spending power of the community, caused by the general slutiijt in the Dominion's commodities. In consequence of the year's results being so satisfactory, the committee decide! to give the same amount in stakes next season as last season, £35.000. Our ing the year the club sustained a lo*s through the deaths of Messrs. M Barclay. M. Davis, J. Dodds, A. J. Magson, W. H. Young and Mrs. J. S. Williams. There being no other nominations, Mr. ■F. 11. Williams has been elected president and Mr. C. M. Ollivier vice-president. Two nominations have becu received for the office of treasurer. Six nominations have been received for the flection of three iuciulkts of committee and twelve nominations have been received for ten stewards. The statement of accounts shows that the principal receipts were: Totalizator £36.053 7/0. stands and gates £12,058 10/, nominations and acceptances £062-1, privileges £4037 19/6, interest £139"i 7/6, rent £1218 10/5, members , subscriptions £1123 10/, Canterbury Park Trotting Cluh (balance of Addingtoii course paid off) £1500. The expenditure included stakes £35,000, Government taxes (totali.-ator £9008 11/0, dividends £17.537 3/, stakes £1750, privileges £417 G/S, amusement tax £895 3/4, income tax £20 14/4, laml tax £148 8/3, less recovered from dividends and owners £19,587 3/) £11,390 4/4, expenses of race meetings £304G 3/, salaries and wages £2910 1/11, improvements £1529 19/7, rates £1455 12/9, repair and maintenance £122S 10/5, advertising, printing and stationery £1125 18/3, Trotting Conference levies £720, rent of course £511 11/3. Tinyear opened with a credit of £2001 11/2 and closed with a credit of £7520 10/9.

The aesets are valued at £79.592 8/1. including cash in bank £7823 10/9, Government stock and bonds £24,555, land £35,291 17/4, plant £1118, furniture £870 and buildings £9604, while there are no liabilities, except an item of £230, received in nominations for future events.