SPORTING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 8

SPORTING

IS IT EQUITABLE?

DIVIDED COMPILATION

; (By, "Binocular.'')

One of the remits to be presented at Jie annual meeting of the N.Z. Racing Conference is in relation to the; method of'computing place dividends when there is. a dead heat fbr! third. . The Hawke's Bay Jockey ,Club suggests an alteration whereby future dead-heaters for third be treated as on§ horse, each being allotted one-sixth of the pool. At present, where there is a dead heat for third; each dead-heater is allotted a share of the pool on the same basis as the first and second horses. As a result of the dividing of the pool on the place-totalisator into four equal parts prior to the*, portions bemg divided by the number of tickets invested upon each horse, backers of the first and second horses have to be content with a reduced dividend. On a previous occasion a similar proposal1 received scant consideration, but some day a different view of the position may be taken. In:' some respects the existing system is hardly equitable. "A. Great Run.^—After being to all appearances in a'hopeless position three furlongs frpm home,-,'iij the: Empire Handicap at Marton y:on. "Saturday, Noble Tox came from. ;the clouds to run • third. On;, the , strength of that performance a winning.. turn should quickly come for the Foxbridge gelding. x Useful. —Although he never threatened any real danger, the Taurangatrained Mercury Bay, who is by Musketoon from the Australian-bred mare Chrysolaus, ran a useful'race on the second day of the Wanganul Meeting Like; his dam, he is grey in colour - .ing. . ••■•.■■• ■.-■ ■■•.•■•■ To Be Sold.—Dominate and Indian j Sign, both of whom carried the! colours of the late Mr. Ralph Stewart, will be offered for sale at Trentham on the Friday before the second day of the Wellington Winter Meeting Beau Vite is remaining in Australia meantime. Ip Commission.—Ann Mie and Halt are back in the active ranks at Riccarton. Both are reported to be well forward, particularly the former. Out of Action.—Streamline's, trouble is in a-ligament, and it is expected that he will be off the scene for the remainder of the.jumping season The big gelding developed similar trouble on the eve of last year's Grand National Meeting. May Go Out.— Whether hunt clubs have outlived their usefulness in the meantime is a subject exercising the minds of some Riccarton trainers. It is the opinion of some that permits for hunt clubs should be drastically reduced or withdrawn during the war period.