EASTER RACING

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21456, 24 April 1935, Page 10

EASTER RACING

* s . INVESTMENTS BY THE public *'' THIS YEAR'S AND LAST ¥!&£s FIGURES VERY CLOSR ' Although more than £ 295,000 W# invested on the totalisator during' the Easter racing season this yttEj the difference between this yearS and last year's totals amounts oajjf, to £429 10s. This £429 10s represents a decrease on last yeas'* figures for racing and trotting ings combined, but if the former if? taken separately this year's seasaft reveals an increase in investment® amounting to £7648 10s. meeting's show a decline of mainly because of the substantial fall in investments at the first <H3f of the Metropolitan Club's Easter meeting. • . Strangely enough, most ractns clubs showed an increased tumoVff, on their first day's meeting and * decline on the second day. ■ TW? was true of the Canterbury Jocks? Club, the Auckland Racing Club, w? Feilding Club, and the Wairarai* Club. Investments at Riccarton «* Monday were slightly above wtaj*. they were on the corresponding ®5Ti last year, but wet weather contributed to a slight failing* off. This year's total, therefore, WW £2Bl below that of the last meeting. Auckland and FeildinS also showed a decrease over WW days, but Wairarapa was more iw* tunate with an increase of nww than £IOOO. , " usA The Riverton Racing Club, Wrßfl® conducts one of the most pop®®? meetings in the south, haaoMgmore money on each of the days this year than it did m The increases were marked in case, and the total improvement m investments amounted to The smaller one-day Easter n>«*" ings conducted by the Tuapeka, and Beaumont Clubs I vealed a larger turnover this ye®* but one other, at Waipukuraa* showed a decline. Full details up to date are as .lows:—

Racing Clubs 1934. ijjP 5 - £ * bl £r .. 3,,T« mff Second day .. 21,610 21-W# Auckland — ■ in-SSIi a*S» :: Si Second day .. 16,466 Wairarapa— 12.*#' First day .. m® 1 Second day .. 12,62.' 'lff Riverton — i7«t First day .. ij'#- ■ Second day .. *3,rfßli Third day .. 11,155 liW Waipukurau— 4g77 Single day .. 6,<361 V 'Si, .. 3.8 «« T .. =.®U Beaumont— 77 4j Single day .. 5.0<4 » Totals • • £241,45** £249,l<^_ Xrotttet Clubs ija £ & N.Z. Metropolitan— 23 W Si First aay .. 35 <° u * Hawera— 8,55» First day .. 6,943 8,795 Second day ■ • 76<8 Totals .. £^i L-i^2;v Gnnd totals £295,893 £ ): " I