CUP MEETING TURNOVERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1937, Page 13

CUP MEETING TURNOVERS

The total amount of £214,015 invested at the New Zealand Cup Meeting is the largest since 1929, when £219.104 was invested. The highest total recorded at a Cup Meeting was £340,141 in 1920, an increase of £80,162 on the previous year. The following is a list of the figures for the concluding day's racing and the totals for the meeting since 1919: — Final da.v. Meeting. Yenr. £ £ 1919 68,561 25'J,!)i9 1920 9B,6f>i> 340,141 1921 78,154 271,454 10»2 70,855 259,92u 1323 68,425 237,802 1924 60 250 237,210 1925 ..., |U,792 207,934 1926 Ji.029 197,305 192? ::...: 54.024 204,449 . 1928 52,293 194,0.9 Im 64.431 219,104 1930 46,149 161,857 1931 ... 31.125 109.888 J932 25 859 86,587 },S3 .... 38,419 110.164 1934 i 35:774 115,311 ;X« .. 48,277 141.195 }„« 65.301 153.742 1937 ■;:::::::.. .68,128 214,015 Although the betting was heavy on Saturday, making the best total on any of the four days, the increase was tne smallest for the week. The result was that the improvement for the whole meeting was approximately 16 per, cent., which came out very close to the Metropolitan Trotting Club s 15 per cent, increase. . '

The next Beau Pere to race m-the Dominion will be Arvakur at waikato on Saturday. - Will he carry the sequence to thirteen? Free Advice, who ran two seconds in modest company at Rotorua on Saturday, is a five-year-old mare by Hunting Song from Golden Opportunity, an plder half-sister to the brilliant Gold Rod. Both Golden Opportunity and Gold Rod are from Oreum, daughter of Desert Gold, and were bred by Mr T. H. Lowry, of Hawke's Bay. With two recent races over short courses in him. The Buzzer seems to tower above his opponents in the Levin Handicap on Saturday. At his last'start last season he won the Tamatete Handicap, 14 miles, from a very strong field at the Manawatu Autumn Meeting.