BEST TURNOVER FOR YEARS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 19, 23 January 1937, Page 22

BEST TURNOVER FOR YEARS

ANNIVERSARY DAY AT TRENTHAM

OUTSIDERS AND FAVOURITES SHARE HONOURS

(By "Rangalira.")

Investments mounting to near the figures of the best days passed through the totalisators at the continuation of the Wellington Racing Club's Summer Meeting at Trentham yesterday. The turnover of £76,291 was easily the highest enjoyed by the Club since pre-depression times, ancl the best for an Anniversary Day since 1930, when the amount handled was £85,727. The record for this holiday date is £102,783, whiclt was the pool in> 1921, and there have been six occasions in all (1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1927, and 1930) in which the Anniversary investments exceeded yesterday's. Last year the holiday was missed, and the top figures were £48,820 10s on the final day. Last Labour Day the turnover was £61,824. ... , j Though there were three win dividends of well over a score and two bigger than Ponty's in the Cup on the first day, the public found the winners fairly easy picking in the other events, as four both-way favourites were successful and the remaining winner should also have been a both-way first choice, There, were some useful place prices, including two at double figures. The surprises of the day were the wins of Sunee, Sea Wrack, and Sanhedrim, the first pair members of Trentham stables. There was near a record crowd at the course. The day was fine, with a westerly wind at gale force.