ANNIVERSARY DAY'S TURNOVER

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 19, 24 January 1938, Page 13

ANNIVERSARY DAY'S TURNOVER

FAVOURITES FAIL ONCE AGAIN AT TRENTHAM

(By "Rangatira.") Though the coincidence of Anniversary Day and Saturday this year had the almost inevitable result of causing a drop in the iotalisator investments for the Wellington Racing Clubs-Summer Meeting, which was concluded on Saturday, the turnover for the final day and for the meeting was above the estimate of the club's officials. Saturday's figures, £83,004, have been exceeded only twice on an Anniversary Day, in 1920 and 1921, when £85,445 and £102,783 respectively were handled; and they were much better than the £78,943 of 1927, the last occasion on which the holiday and Saturday coincided. The decrease for the meeting was just under 8 per cent, due, of course, to a Thursday having to replace the Saturday that is usually additional to Anniversary Day. The favourites again had a very poor-innings on Saturday, so that the turnover paid higher testimony to the keenness of investors than might be indicated by the figures. The only favourite _to succeed was die two-year-old Ivar, and during the whole meeting there were only three favourite successes. Form has rarely been more tricky at Trentham, notorious for its trickiness.