SPORTING.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19643, 12 June 1929, Page 14

SPORTING.

RACING FIXTURES. Jon* 14. 15—Wapier Park R.C. June 30, 22 —South Canterbury u C June 31. 22—Hawke'a Bay J.C. June 29—Aahborton County R.O. Juno 29 —W«T«rl«r B.C. Jaly to, 11. 13—Wellington R.C. Jnly 25 —Walmate Hurt Julv 25. 27—Gieborne K.C. Jnfy 27—South Canterbury Hunt August 3 —Chrißtchurcb Hunt. August B—Poverty Bay Hunt. 1 •*!, 1' IT—Canterbury «'.C TROTTING FIXTURES. J a3e :i Aui'tHoil »C. TURF GOSSIP.

Acceptances for the .South Canterbury Meeting will clo«o on Friday. Nomination.-, for (.lassie events in connexion with the Canterbury, ana watu, Dunedin, Taranaki, Feilding, Wellington, Auckland, and Takapuna Meetings will bo due on Friday. Nominations for the Asi-burton and Wellington Waiter Meetings will close •n Monday nest. Owing to hca\\ rain overnight there Va& no track available lor tast at Riccarton yesterday, ail horses ex cising on the sand. Owing to Evening's owner residing fa Dunedin, tho Day Comet mare has IwMjn sent bv F. P. Uarulge to YVinga tui. and she "ill in futuro bo trained by R-. C. lteed. Tho rising three-year-old iilly like?bv Grandcourt from 1 able.Talk, "ha* entered H. Nurse's stable at carton, to be trained by him on beha^ ot her North Island owner, Mr J. Bridgman. Court like had a amount of racing this sea*) ll ' J* s'® 5 '® produced on sixUen occasons for two wins, one second (to Juniper at Riccarton) and tour thirds, bringing m a total of £340 in stake money. She is bred on solid lines, her dam being by Finland from War Martian from Gossip, dam of BobriKon. Aberfeldy (E. Shaw) and Gala Day IT Titeon) were associated m a iou n of' tho hurdles at Riccarton The former gave a splendid uxhibUion bat Gala Dav, who had not been Since'his fall at *-n£iini, did not jump with much confidence. T H Gillett is likely to be without the services of both Wharnchffe and CWlatan during the wl,,t ® r ; hed former is suffering from a wrencht fetlock joint doubtful leg, and they aro to bo treated to a »pell. Battle Colours has made a good recovery from his recent mishap, and is .regular worker at Riccarton. Radiateis also getting through. useful tasks and appears to be throwing the ailment which eased lam np last month. Tlio newcomer to D. Camp bell's stable, Subdivision is teing re (rtricted to easy work in the „ de - Ibnt will soon join the active ' The friends of Mr G. Fulton, a member of tlio Canterbury Club's committee, will be pleased to bear that he is making satisfactory progress towards recovery A «eni serious operation in Lewisham Hospital. F. P. Clnridgo has recently re^ 1 ?" missioned Pago Boy and I ®. on si e ' n< n_ •{ whom ara carrying a lot oi con® tion 'after tiheir lengthy spells. Euphonium, a useful performer, by Elysian—Harmonious, had his , car £ c ended by a friendly bullet, v-T.IL broken Wh badly again, Ins knee, the seat of his old trouble, giving out. Kuphonium won nmong othei races li Levin Patea. and Waverley Cups, ana was narrowly beaten in the Manawatu Cup, won bv Novar. In stakes altogether his total amounted to upwards Of £BOOO. The All Black gelding Kick Oft, who jb down to make his appearance at the Kiuvier Park and Hawke s Bay Meet£s is sadd to do well in the hunting flefS, but ho has reached an age where he must have lost, a lot of his sting.

The Wellington steeplechase winner •f 1926, Birkenella, who ran unplaced 11 times the following season and has not raced sine© tho same race two yews ago, is a notable entry for steeple&u»e events at the Napier Park and Hawke's Bay Meetings. The sum uaid to the Government in taxation as a result of the Auckland Racing Club's Winter Meeting amounted to £16,888 10s 7d, made up as follow* : —Totalisator £5528 lls-M dl T*~ dends £9961 18s, stakes £<o2 lUs, amusement £7oo lis 4d. Tto shrinkage in totalisator receipts recorded in many instances in connexion with Meetings held in Auckland this teaaon ka» formed tho subject ol tnuoh discussion and the opinions advanced to account for the same taKe various forms. That there is a shortening of sail on the part of the vast majority who sot out in search of winners can (eay "Phaeton") be accepted without demur, and to a tightness m tba money chest may, no doubt, be aseribed the curtailment of investments. Then there is the section who transfer their speculations to another quarter, which offers facilities for extensive investment without the samo being pr<* «iaimed by tho rolling round of figures •n the totalisator mnehino. The taxa lion of dividends on the top of other charges also plays a part with many. •o that when the total isator-shrinkage question is surveyed in all its bearings 4be tendency to n decrease instead oi allowing an increase is not, after all. to be regarded as a surprise. The following statement shows the totalisator rMflipta -it Auckland Meetings each •C 11 days durins the past nine seatons : p 1920-21 ... ... 1,146,480 1921-22 ... 054,000 1923-2:1 1925-24 ... 939.6()b 1924-25 991,837 1925-2' i ... ... 949.688 1926-27 848 -^ 1927-28 9 U-S^? 1928-29 ... ... 783,034