INCREASED TURNOVER

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 18, 19 October 1936, Page 13

INCREASED TURNOVER

MASTERTON RACES

V SUNEE WINS MAIN EVENT

'■ ■ There was the best attendance for • several years at the conclusion of the ■ M^sterton Racing Club's Spring Meet-? ling on Saturday, and a long-overdue -return to increasing turnovers was experienced by the club. Though some of the fields were' very small, with • three one-dividend affairs, the betting was keen from the start, and with ■several pools of over £1000, rather 'rare in the last three or four years, ,',the club came out of the meeting with •an improvement in investments, .though the figures were down on the •■first day. Saturday's turnover was £7601, as against £5734 10s last year, 1 ttaking a total of £12,953 10s for the meeting, compared with £11,121 twelve months ago, an increase of £1832 10s. Two years back the investments were £12,403 10s. Saturday's racing was for the main part excellently contested, even in the „ smaller fields, with several exciting down the long straight. As ' forni generally worked out well there i -were no large dividends, the best being that of the first winner, Lord Quick. 'The track was in splendid order, with <the going faster than on Friday. The principal event of the meeting, the C. F. Vallance Memorial Handicap, was narrowly won by the Trent-■■'ham-owned Sunee, with two other Trentham horses, the stablemates Might and Korero, iri the minor places. .JSnowball had an easy victory in the , open'seven, contested by only three horses. Siegmund and Cricket were other Trentham winners; .and Siegmund and Arrownilla were double winners at the meeting. C. Goulsbro', with four'successes, including both principal events, was the outstanding jockey.