A DAY OF RECORDS
TREMENDOUS TOTE TURNOVER
The opening day of the Wellington Summer Meeting at Trentham on Saturday, with its £5000 Cup race, was to prove a memorable occasion, for it was a day of records. The crowd was a record, and the totalisator returns set a new high-water level for the club, the aggregate of £195,032 (win £82,799 10s; place £112,232 10s), being £19,647 above the previous best, that of the Winter Meeting last July. Further, three track records were established; Subdued ran the five furlongs in the Wellington Stakes in 582 sec, Don Quex clipped 2sec off the existing two-mile record, and John Gay set a fresh record of I.lo} for the open six furlongs. It was in June, 1938, that a resurvey of the Trentham course was made, and all the original records were expunged.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 13, 17 January 1944, Page 6
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139A DAY OF RECORDS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 13, 17 January 1944, Page 6
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