TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 4

TURF NEWS IN BRIEF

H. Wiggins, on Lapstone, was given a hectic time bf it at the' barrier by this horse, who would not stand up at the tapes. The starter told him to stand bebind, which he did, and then he took him into the line on the outside. This error of judgment" or disobedience resulted an Wiggins being fined £10. O, Mclnaljy, who, like Wiggins, was _m a hurry to' catch' a motor-car, en route for Auckland, was,go intent upon making this connection that he entirely forgot that he had to weigh in when his mount, .Alloy, finished'fourth in the McEae Handicap at Hawefa on Saturday. This dereliction o£ duty cost him £1, the amount of.the.fine imp'psed by the Judicial Committee.; , Had' St. Clara won the Borough Handicap at Haw-era on Saturday she .would have paid over half a century on;--the' straight-out totnlisatnr. As it was she was in front thirty yards from the post and stopped badly, finishing third. "Her place: dividend was well, below double figures. '. ~.- ■ t _ ._ ;. ;_ Seatown shaped with something like his old dash when he defeated all but Gibrali tar at -Hawera on Saturday. He. reyiplWd in the bad .ground, and if he strikes a "real winter; track at Ellerslie next month lid. will be';an: outside prospect in the Gorri^ wall Handicap, a race he has won] 6»'ice already-rr-iii 1929 and 1931, while .in ithe race in between he was third.'■'.' ' ■ ■:' The 'Amberley Racing Club executive will have cause to ponder over last Saturday's race meeting. Under favourable conditions the totaligator returns showed a 25 per cent, decrease on a small turnover, after making provision in the calculations for seven races against eight last year. Perhaps the failure of the club to introduce the win-and-place betting system was largely to blame for the poor speculation.