Profit Of £919 Shown By New Brighton Club

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27698, 30 June 1955, Page 5

Profit Of £919 Shown By New Brighton Club

trotting

After providing £137 for taxation the New Brighton Trotting Club showed a profit of £9lB for the year annual T *J is is sh °wn in the to P res ented at the VW? «. annual tnedting next Tuesday Jv°. ?**£. year - endE d May 31, 1954 anH L Ub PJ ovld ed £577 for taxation and showed a profit of £1284 „ ; J"i any ’“Ptovements had been car-renortOU»nHUr:nS-.Tthev.year' says the had Li!?* ennsjderable repair work completed on the many wooden buildings on the course, of tLTHF • refers to the R A h A l°J lowing “embers:—Messrs «• A. Anderson, C. M. Archer W J’ E ' Clements, I L’ m Coop, T. E Elliott, H. C. Erampton LittU n r< ~ D ' J °hns, A. »»/■ F- Nicoll and A. H. Wilder. 1916 am‘i h hL had ioin ® d the club in eludi/2 d n^ d .oeenPied all offices, ineleeted President, and he was w- a hfe “ember in 1954. Mr Sub ! a>^ a t an i? t s e ‘i !ife “ember of the ,? nd be had done yeoman service land™* SP ° rt throughout New Zea-

A -, G. Jamieson, who has been ?eek‘in e J I \.£ Or i th f- last *K? years, is not nr* m g = re T ele .2 lon ' Tbe “ominatior Jt*r s , J. Moore is the only one received for this office. Mr W. E. Desmond has been nominated for the Position of vice-president and Mi Jamieson for the position of treasurer, wdl be necessary for the committee and stewards. Four nominations have been received tor three committeemen and 16 for 15 stewards ™i a hoancial statement, the club * list . ot oomparative figures it» m thC r Primus year. The main items of expenditure, with figures for StsEl ar , l n „ Parentheses, are: Stakes, £23,000 (£21,375); totalisator expenses, £6638 (£6279); repairs and maintenance, £4874 (£2191); race meeting expenses, £4023 (£3360)£i?7 S ’ ( fi 277 V; depreciation £2577 (£1692); New Zealand Trotting Conference levies, £1024 (£969)general expenses, £ll2B (£985)-’ insurance, £572 (£663). a items income were: lotalisator receipts, £40,300 (£34,304)gate receipts, £3780 (£4440); nom/ ?ei?wv and acceptance fees. £3904 ibinao , t, , JS? m V ers ’ subscriptions, £lO4B (£1036); booth. £737 (£707)race cards, £478 (£581) The balance sheet shows that cur- < p i t om l ? ablh l le L amount to £2635 (£1215), and the accumulated funds stand at £29,099 (£36,180). The drop lu accumulated funds is shown in of £BO0 a 0 bl ‘ Shnlent Ol ’ build mg fund

The club’s fixed assets, less depreciation are shown at £25,602 (£19,888), (£9103) lnvestal ents total £11.592

Licences Due Applications for the renewal of all

training and driving licences are due today. The New Zealand Trotting Conference has met with a good response so far this month and already several hundred applications have been received. Placed Last Year • c /? runner-up to Johnny Logan in the Hamilton Handicap at Claude.SatuF£ay, filled a similar position m the same race 12 months ago when hp was beaten by Douglas Derby. Covfex has done well since he returned from Ausa n l on J h or two ago and lie should not be long showing form in the new season for V. L. Mackie, who has a big team in work at Kumeu. Smart Trot The veteran Grattan Loyal gelding. Mountain Range, showed that he had •°u t , of speed when he finished a close fourth in the Karapiro Handicap at Claudelands last Satur- ? ay / c « After conceding starts of up to 156 yards he gave a faultless display of trotting and his time for the two miles was 4min 28 4-ssec, a grand effort on a track which was far from being fast. Mountain Range is now a member of W. L. Rumney’s team. Rumney is well known as the trainer of Glen Star, which won many races a few years ago. Favourite Fails Mavis Dillon was a very strong favounte f°r the Electric Handicap at Claudelands on Saturday, but at no stage of the race did she look a likely winner. The Dillon Hall mare was always just behind the leaders, and m straight she could not come - A1 though she was right up with the fourth horse, she was well behten. An aged mare by Dillon Hall from Scatterbrain, Mavis Dillon has shown useful form this season and from 16 starts she has had two wins and nine placmgs. She has not yet come to i? her run and he r trainer, . Morrison, of Takanini, should not find it hard to place her to advantage early in the new season. Surprise Win Murray Grattan was having only his second start as a trotter and his tnird start in two seasons when he upset calculations by winning the Karapiro Handicap at Claudelands on His owner-trainer, R. A. McMillan, had him handily placed all the way and he finished too solidly tor Sundari. Murray Grattan had not won a race since he beat Staveley’s Lad in the Junction Handicap at Epsom in October, 1948, when he was a four-year-old. Murray Grattan is now a rising 11-year-old and is at an age where little improvement can be expected. He is a gelding by Josedale Grattan from a useful pacing mare in Crocus, the dam also of Floradale, Daphne Grattan, Quindale, Tapuwae and Single Lord.