RACING Continued Fall In Betting At Meetings At Wingatui

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27470, 2 October 1954, Page 4

RACING Continued Fall In Betting At Meetings At Wingatui

°}E se totalisator figures show Cb.K’T 1 ° years ? he Dunedin Jockey at U w?n^H? O 'L er I s r E P rin S meetings has decreased £31,752 1952 £ 112,779 in 1953 and £91,909 this year. Offcourse figures have shown a sharp inSe T OVe r the two y ears > buttheae have also increased for the most successful meetings; and the on-course I>Sn P Club SerioUS Pr ° blem for ST £45 9M C a °H tokings averaged only ■tw.yM a day, compared with £32 7QQ 10s which was handled on-course at Geraldine last Monday. ‘-<- u urse at •ri2s?£ , ?J. < ? n ’’’ in toe “Southland 1S weel r wrote: -There are several avenues the ?o™? I "nve«ii k t y Club ' s comm ‘«ee investigate in an attempt to mee tings more popular The doubt attractVbSteT” Cp to Status" Jl otes toat the Ranfurly Handicap on the first day of the rpcarried a stake of £650 final Grandstand Handicap, on the at 4 £5OO where!! SLjr® approaching Wyndham and Winton meetings the mair“races Ire W^dhJ^ 500 and £ «°' Wtoton and clubs, and it™ Dunedin Club is not up to its metropolitan status, he tv! J3 I *. of the spring meeting at . su ggests that the time is fine toktog "° ; Hamnt Cl " b tO , d ° some Hampton’ continues. “Maybe few and young blood is required 11 15? committee; but, wherever the l£deVM, aU - out affdr 171 a to halt the present trend.” a lr l tile Dunedin “Star” sports edition has, perhaps nointpd «°reate- ly ‘° tbe root of r>,.LTj e cost of racing at the Dunedin Jockey Club’s meetings r toe season , in proportion to the stakes allotted, has been the an/? 0 !? 31 topic of racing circles of late In j a ?» ? ttem Pt to have these costs „ 1S understood that’the Canterbury Owners, Breeders' and Train-

n rr' Ass<^i ati< ”l. has written to the wl thin the last fortnight dictrirf tS me 7 ears ’ trainers in that aL r have been gradually drifting Lt? frOm Wl ?Batui meetings. What to JJi e reason for this’ rtiJ»? i l«2£ ly u a f e .f anterb Ui7 trainers but tho ? e ln Gtoso and posiUon d complaining about the Cheaper to Go North “Inquiries showed that it was a b te?m n? r h RiCCar ’j° n Gainers to take a team of horses to meetings in the °l the 2? rth Is * aßd than J; 0 une din. This, of course is Club. 7 Ol tt 1 -* Dunedin Jockey ciub, which bases its acceptance on c fZ“' of toe total stak? c * j Otaki-Maori meeting last mato r<^.’nJ he Ra^ kawa Handicap, the •3 whtob tb Wa f for a stake of £llOO, ar. Ji 11 , t? 6 wlnn er s share was £715 tor tb=J Ophy ‘ Jo nominate and accept for that race had cost £6. By comWto«bi the Grandstand Handicap at whbFh t Yi was - for a stake of £650. of ton the winners share was £455. 10s nonunate and accept had cost £7

„„ • on l? goes to show that ‘1 Part of the Dominion are forced to pay more while racing ttou^. SmaUer 3take ’” the article con -

““"ton trainer had produced figures to show that a trip in the to bl P bV North Island proved cheaper, after all expenses had been met, than a similar trip to a Dunedin meeting. When such was the case, the trainer had said he h L tle sense m travelling south when he could travel north at monej? per rate and race f °r bigger ran^A£.° Ut ?y bli £ support, no club F 3 / 3 ,? . r an attractive programme, and totahsator figures tell the story as to tb ®T. D *£'- C ' ls fari ng.” the article adds. If this sort of thing is to conthf c i ub not get sufficient s:nt n stand O ar k d eeP ltS at lhe pre ’ T 1?; was a tone when racing at b?X of national importance, but it is obvious that those days are a I)2™ °*n t J e pa . st ’ and some forward ” have t 0 ho token if they are cludes° C ° me agaln '” th e article con-