French Figures Are Astonishing

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30975, 3 February 1966, Page 4

French Figures Are Astonishing

Figures to arouse the envy of trainers everywhere, and, perhaps to stir the ambition of many British owners and trainers, were published in the English Sporting Life recently.

They deal with statistics for the past flat racing sea-

son in France, and they are astonishing. Mathet, the top French trainer, earned the fantastic total of £461.918 with members of bis team last season. Geoffrey Watson worn £295.800, and Pollet £260,726. Four other trainers won over £135,000 each, and Clement —tenth on the list won £12,000 more than did P. J. Prendergast, who topped the English list with £75,323.

Noel Munless, thanks to Aunt Edith’s victory in the Prix Vermei'He. won £34,911 in France—a total that gained him only fortieth position!

As for the French owners. Baron Guy de Rothschild and M. F. Dupre won over £230,000 while four other owners worn over £lOO,OOO each.

Two-In-One Track j “The Press” Special Service INVERCARGILL. Changes to the Invercargill racecourse were decided by a combined meeting of the Southland Racing Club and the Invercargill Trotting (Nub at Invercargill on Tues- ! day night. | The straight of the track will be widened by 16 feet to allow a strip of the track on the inside to be used solely for trotting meetings. A false rail will be used for gaHoping meetings and the outside fence will also be moved out 16 feet. A section of the present galloping training tracks will be made available to trotting trainers. The changes arise from complains from nearby residents about the present i training track at Red Bank! Lodge. The meeting decided! this track would be closed. I