AMBERLEY CLUB’S GOOD YEAR

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 4

AMBERLEY CLUB’S GOOD YEAR

PLANS FOR NEW BETTING FACILITIES Up-to-date, automatic win-and-piace and U h es to ?. al i s , ator facilities are expected to be available or the next race meeting of the Amberley Racing Club This is d P n n t tiO i ned ht by Mr H “Gr~nwood, presif r ®P° rt - will be prerented to members at the annual general meeting next Monday. "toerienced in handling the large totalisator investments (£38,741) at the last race meeting, which was a record one in every way. ’’Further maintenance work was carried out on the racecourse during the year, and thanks to the splendid efforts of the course committee, the race track is now in very good order," says the report. “Improvements included the provision of a concrete water storage tank, and the erection of a number of additional horse stalls.

The report records with regret the deaths of Messrs A. Dickson, G W, Rhodes, N. Rutherford, and J. H. Watson. Mr Dickson was an honorary life member, and Mr Watson was a former steward of the club.

The club showed a profit of £684 8s 7d for the year. Receipts totalled £6186 2s 6d, main items being: members’ subscriptions. £155; nominations and acceptances, £347; gate receipts, £258 16s 6d; totalisator, £4594 6s; and Government refund, £5OO. The club paid £2125 in stakes, and £1978 3s lOd in net taxation.

Assets as. at July 31, included: New Zealand Government stock, £997 10s: Post Office Savings Bank, £2000; national savings, £1055 15s; Bank of New South Wales and cash in hand. £271 0s lOd.

Massowa Filly In Work Hie Rlccarton trainer, K. J. Thomson, has made a start with the three-year-old filly Adowa, which is by Massowa from Battledress. Massowa. a son of the Ascot Gold Cup winner, Massine, won six races up to a mile and three-quarters in England. His dam, Evangeline, was a threequarter sister to Defoe, sire of Defaulter and Howe. Another newcomer tb Thomson’s team Is Solstice, a two-year-old gelding by SunKing out of Sanskrit. For Westport

Jesse James, which was bought recently by Mr W. T. Larkin and entered J. A. Cox’s Riccarton stable, will race at the Westport Jockey Club’s meeting on September 8 and 10. The Peak Halyard gelding has been weighted at 8-6 for the Scanlon Hack Handicap, of six furlongs, on the first day. Jesse James won two races as a two-year-old last season.

Half-Sister To Lady Claret The Rlccarton owner-trainer, J. S. Shaw, recently bought a two-year-old half-sister to the brilliant Southland galloper, Lady Claret. This filly is by Hello Peter (son of the Derby winner, Blue Peter) and she is one of the few representatives of this sire at Riccarton. Greetings, which has had a promising career interrupted by unsoundness, is also by Hello Peter. Penfold, the dam of this filly and Lady Claret, is by Croupier out of Muriet, by Lord Warden out of Murihiku, by Sunny Lake out of the Birkenhead mare, Arai-te-Uru. May Race Again Swayup, which fractured a sesamoid bone a few days before the New Zealand Cup meeting last year, has rejoined M. J. Wadley’s team at Riccarton. He has been worked on the roads by his part-owner. Mr A. J. McLaughlin, without showing any soreness, but not until he is given fast work will it be possible to determine whether he will be able to race again. ' As a three-year-old, Swayup distinguished himself by beating Beaumaris in the John Grigg Stakes and the Dunedin Guineas. He was narrowly beaten by I the brilliant Sweet Spray in the Stewards’ Handicap that year. . Swayup started last season well by winning the Paparua Handicap at the Grand National meeting, but he had only one more race before his breakdown.