AUSTRALASIAN TROTTING CHAMPIONSHIP

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 124, 21 November 1925, Page 19

AUSTRALASIAN TROTTING CHAMPIONSHIP

The Australasian trotting eharnpiouship, held in Perth last March, was a huge succesß, and has evidently come to stay. It is announced that the fixture will be repeated next year. The unqualified success of the last contests will ensure still greater success in future championships. The Australasian trotting championship will be conducted" on 6th, 13th, and 20th March next year. Similar prize money and conditions as last season will obtain. Nominations close on 11th January, 1926. The Western Australian Trotting Association launched out in the right direction when it was decided to allocate a sum of £2600 to the trotting championship last March. The experience in matters connected with rasing and trotting is, the bigger the prize-money distributed, the greater the success that follows. Of the £2600 devoted to the championship, slightly more than half was appropriated by the two New Zealand contestants, Great Hope and Taraire. The amounts won by the respective candidates participating in the series were as follow: — Great Hope, £1500; Yin Dh-eet £650; Kola Girl, £400; Taraire, £350; Globepool, £150. Delavan was the only visiting horse which failed to secure any of the money distributed. However, the "W.A.T.A. had promised that any visitor who failed to se-f cure place money would be reimbursed to the extent of £100, and a cheque for this amount was handed the "owner of Delavan, Mr. M. E. M'Murtri.e. The points scored over the series of contests worked out as follow:—Great Hope 7, Yin Direct 6, Kola Girl 4, Taraire 2, and Globepool 2. Previous to this series of contests the largest attendance at a trotting fixture in Western^ Australia was 10,831, at the previous W.A. Trotting Cup. At the championship the attendances on the three night 3 , were 9301, 8789, and 12,268. Thus the figures on the concluding night were in excess of anything previously contended with in the "West. . This will give an idea of the undoubted success that I attended the innovation.