INVESTMENT TRENDS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 39, 15 August 1939, Page 13

INVESTMENT TRENDS

ANNUAL TROTTING FIGURES

The upward trend in totalisator turnovers in the Dominion showed no evidence of levelling out yet at last week's Grand National Carnival in Christchurch, where the new season's respective racing and trotting years commenced. In particular, the investments at the Metropolitan Trots surprised even the officials of that body.

At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Trotting Conference early this week it was mentioned by the president, Mr. H. F. Nicoll, that the aggregate trotting investments for the season recently closed were the second best on record. The highest figures to date in this sport were reached, not in 1920-21, as in racing, but in 1925-26, when they touched £2,280,615 10s at trotting meetings solely and £2,441,107 10s when trotting events at galloping meetings are added; Last season's respective totals were £2,177,639 and £2,349,537. *The following official table gives the aggregate investments in the sport of trotting for all seasons since just after the war, along with the stakes provided, the second set of totalisator figures being the total with trotting events at galloping meetings added:—

This table reveals that the sport of trotting has already advanced ahead of the immediate post-war figures, though it has not yet quite attained the peak season of 1925-26, either in amount of stakes g;ven or in aggregate investments. However, the rate of progress shown at the opening meeting of the new term will require only to be maintained, or even approached during the remainder of the term, for the present season to become a record one in the realm of trotting in the Dominion.

Season. L920-21 Stakes. £ 130,354 Investments. £ 2,143,271 [921-22 145,000 1,946,043% 1922-23 .923-24 924-25 025-2G .026-27 927-28 928-29 .929-30 .930-31 .931-32 .932-33 933-34 .934-35 .935-36 .936-37 937-3S 938-39 147,109 148,930 174,317 '181,597 ' "171,317 172.51G 170,308 170,454 153,240 104,340 93,606 98,285 101,795 103,092 122,996 154,191 155,282 1,937,434% 1,883.832 2,051,221 2,156,460y 2 2,315,774 2,2S0,615V3 2,441,107% 2,035,774 2,179,000 2,013.1S2 2.15S,061 1,927,5571/2 2.-075.319 2,144,877iA 2,290,347 l,55S,200% 1,671,662 1,076,065% 1,169,993% 1,092,524% 1,184,588 1,104,674 1,203,877 l-,088,722 1,191,388 1,174,096 1,293,285% 1,614,937 1,758,451 1,931,455 2,086,689 2,177,639 2.349.537