SPORTING

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 98, 23 October 1934, Page 9

SPORTING

WELLINGTON MEETING

A STATISTICAL REVIEW

SUCCESSFUL LABOUR DAY

(By "Pvangatira.")

As last year, a fine Labour Day enabled tho Wellington Racing Club's Spring Meeting to be satisfactorily concluded yesterday. There was a deficit in turnover on the opening day, but with a large attendance, good fields, and keen betting, especially on tho earlier races, tho deficit was turned into a small increase by tho close of yesterday's racing. The gate takings were also up each day, so that the meeting should havo been at least a barely profitable one for the club.

In all, the turnover for the two days amounted to £62,652 10s, of which £41,395 represented yesterday's contribution. The division between tho two pools was £29,989 on the win machine and £32,663 10s on the place machine, a separation that would have been greater had two of tho races on tho first day not been insufficiently largo for place betting. Last year the meeting extended over three days, but for tho Saturday and Monday the investments totalled £62,299 10s, the division between tho pools being £27,354 on the win machine and £34,915 10s on tho place machine.

At tho meeting two yeai'3 ago the investments for tho two days were only £40,380 10s, but with each day wet and the depression at its nadir that was a record bad year. A year earlier, when the depression was already well under way, tho turnover was £01,457 for tho two days, and still a year earlier (1930) it was £86,620. The Labour Day figures this year (£41,305) are the best since 1930, when, in showery weather, tho turnover was £52,534. For several years prior to 1930 the investments on the holiday touched the £70,000 mark. The record for a Labour Day was the £78,737 put through in 1929; but, only for a sequence of wet Labour days, bigger totals would almost certainly have been handled on several occasions prior to tho record year. The statutory taxation that has becomo payable this year includes: — Totalisator tax £2819 7s Dividend tax £2741 Is Stakes tax £203 10s Total £5763 18s To this sum will have to bo added the amount of amusement tax, tho amount of which will not be ascertainable for some days. Tho taxation payments for the three days last year, when tho rate of totalisator tax was half per cent, less (4 per cent, instead of 4-J per cent.), were:— Totalisator tax ..' • £3244 8s Dividend tax ....... £3548 15s Stakes tax ...... £291 0s Total £7084 3s WINNING OWNERS. Other statistical figures for the meeting may also be of interest. The most successful of the owners was tho Awapuni owner-trainer J. P. Coyle, whoso two horses, Severe and Palm, were both winners at their single starts at the meeting and earned stakes amounting to £395. Mr. G. M. Currio, the owner of Spiral and Pomp, was next with £310, and four other owners won over £200. The distribution of the stakes was as follows:— £ .r. P. Covle 395 G. M. Currie 310 T. Fraser, jun. ......... 280 D. M. Douglas 250 Sir Charles Clifford 240 J. M. Cameron 210 A. Lile, £180; J. M. Samson, £180; T. G. Taylor, £160; Mrs. M. S. Curie, £.160; J. O'Meara. £14.0; A. F. Loe, £140; F. Benson, £140; J. F. D. Corry, £140; M. Shaw, £140; H. and N. Smith, £120; W. L. Milne, £120; T. H. Lowry, £115; P. F. Campbell, £80; W. Cooper, £80; F. Ormond, £70; A. Gustofson, £70; C. Pritchard, £40; R. Grace, £40; N. Clout, £40; Mrs. XV. A. Fuller, £40; XV. S. Clark, £40; W. H. Corlett, £30; C. F. Ferguson, £30; D. XV. Wcstenra, £20; A. P. Easton, £20; A. F. Symcs, £20; S. E. Hill, £15: and P. H. XV. Holden, £15. Total, £4070. TRAINERS AND RIDERS. Tho most successful among the trainers were J. P. Coyle, of Awapuni, A, Mcintosh, of Gisborne, and J. M. Cameron, of Hastings, who each saddled up two winners. Coyle's pair were Severe and Palm, Mcintosh's pair Grand Sport and Sporting Blood, and Camoron's pair Gold Trail and Sir Nigel. Trainers to saddle np single winners were:—P. Burgess (Trentham), R. Alexander, (Greenmeadows), T. R. George (Trentham), XV. Rayner (Wanganui), H. and A. Cutts (Riecarton), P. Reardon (Blenheim), J. O'Neill (New Plymouth), L. J. F. Jarvis (Marton), P. McGrath (Riecarton), and L. G. Morris (Marton).

Including the Blenheim win the South Island had only three successes, the North Island taking the other thirteen.

Among tho jockeys L. J. Ellis was first with four wins, on Spiral, Korero, Penelope, and Sporting Blood. W. J. Broughton had three wins (Might, Severe, and Palm), and P. Atkins (Hant Monde and Hunting Lodge) and B. H. Morris (Gold Trail and Cherry King) had two wins each. Single wins apiece were gained by P. Burgess (Chile), R. E. Thomson (illuminate), T. Green (Grand Sport), A. Russell (Copyist), and A. Eastwood (Sir Nigel).