TRENTHAM STATISTICS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 7

TRENTHAM STATISTICS

LAST SEASON'S FIGURES

AUTOPAY'S FINE SHOWING

Owing to a continued reduction in the imount of stakes offered by racing clubs, with consequent much less travelling away from training centres, it was only to be expected that the earnings of most horses would be lower during the season just closed than they had been in other recently past seasons. This has certainly been the case with horses that have been raced as trained at Trenthnm, and the centre's aggregate winnings for the full term (£10,973) is roughly only a litjle over half what it was in the 1931-32 season (£19,500).. Not only was there much less journeying afield during the season just closed than in other recent years, but there were not nearly so many horses racing from Trentham as in the recent past. Three eeasons ago well over a hundred horses were raced from the centre, and two seasons ago there" were nearly ninety. Last season the number had been reduced to . sixty. Quite a number of horses, however, were put through their early pacings at the centre, then sent over to Victoria to do' their racing, where they were measurably successful, but the centre can hardly be credited with the earnings of those horses. Among the number were several of Mr. W. R. Kemball's horses, who were transferred to G. Jones's team at Caulfield as soon as they had shown any winning promise here. A few Trcnthain horses who paid temporary visits to Australian meetings again earned a share of stake-money, but thsy have not won the big money that they did the previous season. Historic, Might, and Autopay in the spring collected £645 10s among them, to which Historic contributed £506, but this sum is in decided contrast to the £6329 that Autopay, Concentrate, and Co. won in, Australia the previous year. In the autumn Autopay went; back to Australia and won £455 more)' but Red Sun and Sage, who also made an early winter trip, failed completely. WINNING TRAINERS. \ Twenty-one trainers shared in the collection of the stakes won by the centre, and the following table shows how much their teams earned (Australian winnings included in the case of C. Pritchard and S. J. Reid) during the term:—

Although the stakes are so much less, the' eighty-five wins and one hundred and forty-nine placings compares favourably •with the ninety-two wins and one hundred and ninety-five placings the previous season. . . C. Pritchard's best winner was, of course, again Autopay, . but Solitaire II (beforo her sale) was -also paying her way. ■Of Pritchard's total £520 was won in Australia. Pritchard was tenth among the trainers the season. before, with three wins and £570 in stakes, but Autopny did not enter his stable till the autumn of that term. . - Reid, who is private trainer to Mr. V. Riddif ord, built up his total through the agency principally of Historic, Eminent, Clangor, and Might. His team in training was' small compared with other seasons, but it will again be at full strength this season. Early in the term he held a commanding lead on the list, but Autopay's continued success finally enabled C. Pritchard^to head him. Last season Reid was fourth trainer (preceded by H. B. Lorigan, T. Pritchard, and G... Jones) with thirteen winners and £2170 10s in stakes. The earnings of Forestry, who was raced in the spring from H. B. Lorigan's 6table in Sydney, are not included in Reid's preBenfc total. Lowe's earnings are made up principally of the earnings of Red Sun. The main part of the rest was contributed by Normandy, with Solitaire II and Maypay, who were in his charge while Pritchard was in Sydney in the spring, making up the balance. Telford was the trainer of the season's champion two-year-old, Dole, who would probably have at least doubled his earnings had he been in any of the classics. Pegged Exchange was also in this stable. H. Pritchard improved his position on the list over the last half of the season through the numerous successes of Shootist, assisted by Purse and Flower. With Mr. W. H. Ballinger's horses he regularly gains a high place, and his latest tally of fourteen wins and £1051 in stakes compares more than favourably with his nine wins and £1034 in stakes two seasons ago. ' " / WINNING HORSES. The best winning horse at' Trentham has again been the honest and consistent Autopay. The previous season this Paper Money horse went close to lapping the next best (Concentrate), mainly as a result of his A.J.C. Epsom win, and .in the term just closed he just failed again io lap the second best, Red Sun. Horses who won at least one race while officially regarded as trained at Trentham are:—

Autopay's main successes were in the W.R.C. Thompson Handicap, the Awapuni Cup, the Wairarapa Cup, the Palmerston North Stakes, and the A.J.C. La Perouse Handicap, but he also ran second in tlie C.J.C..Stewards' (to Cadland) and in the D.J.C. Hazlett Gold Cup (to Silver Scorn). O£ his total his Australian earnings, amounted to £520. Red Sun won important handicaps at Kiecartori, Ellerslie, and Trenthnm, including the A.K.O. Handicap and the W.K..C. Handicap, both at 1% miles. Early in the printer he was taken with Sage across to Victoria, but neither horse did any good there. Historic earned £506 o£ his £786 in Australia, but he won the Harcourt Cup here shortly after his return from Sydney. Eminent, Might, and Clangor were useful gtake-winners during the last half of the term. Gay Court, Purse, Shootist, Cotte^more, Lyrical, and.Pahu arc others who l^veVsucceasfully. managed to pay their way*

■'■ Stakes. Trainer. Wins. Places. £ C. Prltchard 9 13 2105 S. J. Keid l(i 10 209G% J. W. Lowe 5 S 1176 H. Telford 5 3 10G0 H. Prltchard 14 31 1051 D. McCauley 7 0 ii72% 3. T. Young K 4 500 A.Goodman G 4 534 H. J. Bcnge .5 D 480 W.: Hawthorne 5 14 4(!2 W. JlcConkey ........ 2 15 . ,270 A. Finlay 2 2 170 W. Marts (deceased) .1 4 114 T. •■ Prltchard 1 0 103 J. McLaughlin 1 2 B.j Others — 12 156 Totals • 85 149 £10,973

Stakes. Horse. Wins. Places. '£ ►Autopay I ■' "|» Red Sun ....*. • 3 A f<> Dole -••• *■ } °l'i ►Historic 3 ■ 1 '86 Eminent" * f $J° Gay Court 5 *> *■» Purse 5 . 14 - 42;j% Shootist T « 4 0 Cottesmore 3 l ■ *•>« Clangor' -i-.j. 5 .> : j« K l..:::::::::::: J 3« ►Might , 4 3 30b% Cap^ Fair A "> 2;j9TloweK l w, \it k Pegged Exchange 1 2 }!■> Colossical ■••• - - *!" Solitaire II |2 8 101 Normandy •••' i ~7 J! Quietly | * ■ \£ Chile f i "^ Jole de Val .......... 1 3 .120 Late Jest 1 * .]" Cardinal Moon .......; 1 1 »' Gladlum *• j ~ J! Aroma 1 \, f 0 Vitaphone •••* } .* °" Sir Pombal ., 1 } ' r i Epigram •• 1 x ,, °" *Part of earnings won in Australia.