AUCKLAND RACING CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 191, 15 August 1933, Page 11

AUCKLAND RACING CLUB.

THE ANNUAL MEETING

KING'S CUP EACE PROPOSED.

The annual meeting of the Auckland Racing Club was held in the Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon, the president, Mr. O. Nicholson, being in the chair. The president moved the adoption of the report and balance-sheet, hie remarks being published yesterday. Mr. C. E. Major endorsed the remarks of the president, which, he said, were much to the point. The hospitality of the club had always been extended in a greater measure to owners throughout the Auckland province than clubs did in the Soutn Island. There seemed to have been a revolution in the Canterbury Jpckey Club. He could quite imagine how the sanctity ot that august body was upset when the proposal to lower the members subscription was carried. Hβ did not think there was any reason to alter the subscription as far as the Auckland Racing Club was concerned, but he thought the time had arrived when they should reduce the fees as far as the Auckland public was concerned. J. be club had a reputation for giving good stakes, and he hoped that they would continue to increase them when possible, no referred to the large amount that it-cost the various clubs to maintain stipendiary stewards and racecourse inspectors, iie •was not taking exception to them or tneir work, but he thought some of that money could be diverted to the pockets of owners and the public, who found eo much ot tne money clubs received. , , ~ Mr. Major suggested that the do something to promote a King s Oup race. This, he thought, would lend added interest to the sport. Regarding handicapping, he pointed out the big weights that were given to good horses to make room for the "rubbish." That wae not right. A'handicapper was entitled to let the best horse win by as small a margin as_ possible. He should be instructed to give a good horse a chance. On most programmes there were two races for the same contesting horses—a long race, say a mile,-on the first day, and a eix-furlong race on the second day. He thought it would be infinitely better to have the six-furlong race the first day and the mile the second. That ■woijcl give the horses in the mile race a better chance and increase the nomination and acceptances. He also suggested that two-year-old parades should be held later in the day instead of at the start of the programme. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. , ... A motion of sympathy with the relatives of the late Mr. H. 0. Nolan, president of the club, Mr. C. A. Brown and Mr. W. C. Tone, members of the committee, who died during the season, was carried, the members standing in silence. Mr. Nicholson was re-elected unopposed as president and Dr. A. McGregor Grant as vice-president. The ballot for six eeate on the committee resulted in the election of Messrs. J. M. Carpenter and T. Impey and Dr. &. H. B. Milsom (retiring members), and Messrs. W. H. Limn, E. A. Price and G. ■\. Wynyard. Mr. Noel P. Adams was unsuccessful. For three vacancies on the stewards, Messrs. M. J. Lynch (retiring steward), Brian L. Hewitt and Eric _H; Nolan were returned, Mr. Colin W. Anderson t>«D« nmeueeesenil.