WELLINGTON SPRING MEETING
FINAL DAY'S RACING AT TRENTHAM
SATURDAY'S TOTALISATOR LOSS RECOVERED
Favoured by the best Labour Day weather that has been experienced for many years, the Wellington Racing Club's Spring Meeting was successfully concluded at Trentham yesterday. A big attendance was attracted to the course and excellent racing was provided. Early it seemed assured that Saturday's leeway iv the investments would be retrieved, but, with a smaller pool on the second-last event and approximately the same pool on the last race, this result was only narrowly achieved, the total turnover for the meeting, £62,652 10s, being just £353 in excass of last year's figures. Form did not always work out too well, notable improvements being the efforts of Gold Trail, Sporting Blood, and Cherry King. The only two favourites to succeed too were horses who did not race on the opening day. In other parts of the Dominion five other galloping meetings and three trotting meetings were held. Increases in turnover were the rule, but exceptions were the Auckland Trotting Club's and North Canterbury Racing Club's fixtures. The big drop at the Auckland Trots was notable, as this club, against the expressed wishes of the majority of trotting people in the north, went back to the win-and-place system of betting.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 98, 23 October 1934, Page 4
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211WELLINGTON SPRING MEETING Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 98, 23 October 1934, Page 4
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