LATE SPORTING

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1933, Page 11

LATE SPORTING

_ » ON TRENTHAM TRACKS WOODVILLE CANDIDATES 3 MR. KEMBALL'S WINNINGS (By "Rangatira."). At the most Trentham stables will have only five representatives, at-tho Woodville Meeting at the weekend, and f these horses were among those who did . fast work this morning. Several others - with holiday engagements to keep wero 3 also sent along fast and most of them . acquitted themselves well. The plough c was iv use, and it provided fast going c after a fairly lengthy spell now of .fine I -weather. • . , . . •• • Flower (S. Wilson) had-Roderick Dim 3 (J. Gunn) as a companion over six: fur--1 longs, but she drew .away , from.. him 3 down the straight to win tho gallop 3 by four'lengths in lmin'lßsec, the last half-mile'in -^sec.' Flower is a Wbod--2 ville candidate, but 'Roderick Dhu,.who f' was having his first 'fast gallop sinco 3 Carterton, will not be racing a.gairi Ltill ' the Marton Meeting. ■ '" , .'. Forestry (Wilson) moved well over j six furlongs in lmin 16 '4^5 sec, .the last f half-mile in 50sec and tlie last three 3 furlongs' in 36 '3-ase'c. He was picked f up at the half-mile by. Zetes (J. K. ) Robertson), who finished a short head 2 in front of him. 'Forestry will be Mr. - V. Riddiford's only runner at. Wood- ? ville. "' Lovecourt (D. Miller) and Joie de r Val (Gunn) were associated over seven '_■ furlongs, the latter finishing two lengths j in front in lmin 35sec, the last half- _ mile in 52isee. Joie do Val has always been a good track horse, and she looks . like coming back cmiekly after her en--2 forced let-up. Her first racing ; may - be at Awapuni. Lovecourt, who is not » an impressive worker on the tracks, will 5 be running at Woodville. 5 Purse (Wilson), who will accompany Flower to Woodville, w"here she will' r,e- ---' snme racing following a spell since the _ autumn, was galloped only three fhr- _ longs, coming home from that mark in t 38Jste'e. ' L. Colossical: (Gunn) and Epigram (J. s D. Martin) were ■ worked the reverse - way round,' running five furlongs tb: - gether in lmin 2 3-osoe after doing the • first half-mile'in 50sec. Colossical is " engaged at Woodville, but he may go | to tho Waipa and Auckland Meetings | instead. Epigram is to .contest seven ' furlong and mile events at the Waipa t and Meetings if his weights L aro considered satisfactory. i, Bed Sun (N.% S. Jones) and Te Ua i (P. Burgess) were together through [ their seven furlongs in lmin 32sec, the <■ last half-mile iin 53isec, but Bed Sun 1 was doing it comfortably at the end. ' Bed Sun is another who is to do the ;' northern circuit, as he did last year, ! when he won th* A.B.C. Handicap at [ Ellerslie. ; Morbury (W. Collins) and Cape Morn • (Gunn) ran half a mile easily in 54sec. ; Barnum (Martin) beat Orby's Last j (Jones) by several lengths over the : same distance in COsec. Barnum is a ; most promising youngster, but he is a. . big gelding and is-not being unduly bur- • ried.: . - • ■ . « Tutor (Martin) aud Valdarado (Miller) ran an easy six furlongs in lmin 25sec, speeding up over tho last furlong. Might (Wilson) did a similar task in lmin 22sec. Eminent (Martin) went seven fur-longs very comfortably In lmin 39Jsec. Lyrical (Gunn) took 52-} see for her half-mile and Could not have .bettered th© time much. " Autopay (J. T. Young) was. trottecl Tound on the plough three times, anct-^e \ took as much out of himself as if jie [ had been galloped.' Ho may be racing, at Awapuni. ! A: ; Biding engagements . annouhced'-ifor , the Woodville Meeting so far as-Tfe"rit-i ham horses and horsement- "are. 7con- ; cerned are:—B. H. Morris, Forestry; S. : Wilson, Flower, Purse, Emotion,- and Arikira. Among fresh horses noticed back on I the track was Vitaphone, whom.' the i trainer H. L. Kingan bought ; some time ago from Mr. W. B. Kemball. He [ has had a quiet spell and is looking i improved with it. ' '-. . . Mr. Kemball's horses who have been : racing in the north (Cape Fair, Quietly, > Palm Queen, Wahroonga, and Bach- ' elor's Song, who ran only once, are duo to arrive back at Trentham with their : trainer (AY. Hawthorne) on Thursday. ; Tlie trip would have been profitable, as '_ tho team (which earlier included Orimil- | la Horn)'won £645 in stakes during the ', two.moiiths it was away, the respective , contributions being Cape Fair £205, • Quietly £190, Palm Queen £170, Wah- • roonga £70, and Camilla Horn £10. • Theso horses will do their, holiday rae- ' ing at Awapuni and Tauhorenikau.

the use of loud-speakers on nearly all the courses visited, and the penalties imposed on offenders against the queue regulations. Mr. llayley said that the racecourse inspectors in the Common--wealth were very vigilant regarding queue positions, and as a result thore was very little trouble. The maximum penalty was a fine of £5. The visitors'were impressed by the Julius automatic machines, which have been operating in Victoria for two years. The turnover at each meeting had shown an increase since the machines wore installed, Mr. Saggers said> and the figures were still mounting. Some striking figures were quoted of the betting on Australian courses.- At Caulfield, for example,' on November 25, tho totalisator turnover alone in 5s units was £35,000. At tho ' Willianistown Cup Mooting, with an attendance of 16,000 people, the turnover on the machine amounted to £25,000 for six races, and the principal race was Worth £2500. '■"••■'■ The general opinion in New ■ South Wales.was that win-and-place betting had saved the totalisator. , So far as the betting system on the machine was concerned, Mr.: Saggers thought that tho New Zealand system compared very favourably." The methods of calculating tho dividends were very similar. Takfng into-consideration tho huge number of hordes using the'courses, the |'-tracks-were, iii excellent condition, Mr. Hayjey commented. At Caulfield be- ' tween 600- and 700 horses-■ used' .the tracks, ■ and at Bahdwick the average. ' was between 350 -and 400. The staffs were very big, however, and the tracks were constantly watered. The A.J.C. was allowed 18,000,000 gallons of water a year, of which half was applied to the tracks: For six months of the year there was-a considerable addition to the quantity used oh'the tracks. ;"So far as I can see we 'are very much up to date here," Mr. Hayley saicl. An interesting feature of the meetings visited was % that the horses were not seen out until eight minutes before the start of the races,.and the totalisator was not closed until' the barrier went up. . *.' ''.;■'■