MASTERTON MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 97, 21 October 1935, Page 6

MASTERTON MEETING

WALTON PARK'S MAIN RAGE

TOTALISATOR AGAIN DOWN

' There was bright sunshine again for " the concluding day of the Masterton "" Racing Club's Spring Meeting at Opaki on Saturday, and' although a strong • wind was blowing the stands were ■ 'well sheltered from it. The attend- ■ ' ance was larger than on the first day, but several small fields kept the volume of betting down. For tho day the investments amounted to £5735, ''■as against £6551 10s on the second - day last year, making a total of £11,121 •'--- for the meeting, compared with "i £12,403 10s last year, a decline of ~£1282 10s. • Although the fields were often small, -with two of them carrying only one! ~ dividend, the racing was keenly contested, with tight finishes the order of ■.' the day. The meeting was capably " managed, and the totalisator was closed -to time on all races, with the starter ■'often having to wait till the'-official - ..time to start his fields. ~,; The two open events were both fourhorse races. In the C. F. Vallance ",• Memorial Handicap Walton Park, win- : ncr of the main item on the first day ' last year, just outstayed his opposition; "and in .the Waipipi Handicap Slippery •■had little trouble in repeating 1 his ■-.. first day's success under a 71b rise in : weight. Confiscation also scored a ; double at the meeting, and R. Johnson 1 finished up the day by winning a double with Aussie Ra and Courtega. The only Trentham winner was Arctic .. '.Star. x