Hokitika Double Pays Only £3 16s

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29745, 12 February 1962, Page 10

Hokitika Double Pays Only £3 16s

One of the Dominion's 1 smallest double dividends was s recorded at H6kitika on i

Saturday when the hot favourites, Explain and Ashleigh, won the respective legs of the T.A.B. double on the first day of the Westland

Racing Club's summer meeting. The combination paid £3 16s for £l.

Explain was at cramped odds in the first leg, the Michael Keenan Memorial Handicap. Her win and place dividends were £1 Ils fid and £1 5s fid. Ashleigh, the Lake Matheson Hack Handicap winner, was at slightly longer odds although still a firm first fancy. He paid £2 8s fid and £1 Ils for a win-and-place. Saturday’s double dividend is believed to be the third

lowest since 1953 and the smallest at a galloping meet, ing.

At the Nelson Trotting Club’s spring meeting in October, 1954, Sue Scott and Largesse returned a double dividend of £3 9s 6d for £ 1. The Our Amy—Bindora combination paid £3 19s 6d for £1 when they won the Northland Trotting Clubs double on February 23, 1957. The previous double dividend of less than £4 at a galloping meeting was at the Westport Jockey Clubs spring meeting in Octobe-, 1953. The successful combination on the first day. Cock Crow and Accountant, paid £3 18s 6d for £l. and on the second day Pleasure Bent and Accountant returned £3 17s fid.

Chief Seoul

About 2000 scouts and sea scouts gathered around a huge camp fire on One Tree Hill, Auckland, on Saturday night to entertain the Commonwealth Chief Scout. Sir Charles Mac Lean. Many scouting officials and about 500 parents also took pert When Sir Charles Mac Lean arrived at the fire, he was flanked on either side by a guard of honour, brandishing torches. The camp fire leader was Mr J. A. Hudson, director of training at Tatum Park.—(PA.)