NEWS AND VIEWS

Evening Star, Issue 25566, 20 August 1945, Page 3

NEWS AND VIEWS

[By Watchek.J

Withdrawals for the second day at Addington have to be made by 5 p.m. to-morrow. '

■ Nominations for the Otago Hunt Club’s-meeting will close on September 13. The next meeting within reasonable reach of Otago- enthusiasts is the Geraldine fixture on September 22. Nominations will close on September 10. The 1945-46 trotting season was officially opened on Saturday. Gold Bar, who won his fifth Free-for-all on Saturday, is ,to stand at Yaldhurst this season.. He has now won 20 races and nearly £7,000 iu stakes. - . Globe Direct won the Oamaru Trotting Stakes at Oamaru in _ May, and might have been dangerous in the Sapling Stakes with a clear run. Mae Wynne and Highland Scott, winners on Saturday, are both trained by L. Berkett. Cameronian bids fair to reach the best class this season. He is one of the. best stayers seen out for a long time.

Lee Berry spoilt a golden opportunity of winning on Saturday by going to a break in the straight. A number of the runers at Addington on Saturday would be sharpened up by the race, and will be able to give a better account of themselves onSaturday next. _ Imperial Lady is not usually a solid two-miler, but on Saturday she put up a good effort to run second to Zingarrie. Since the coming of the peace the question now being asked is whether mid-week racing will be resumed. An extraordinary meeting of , the dates committees might have to be called. Extra fixtures will probably be sanctioned, but they will, no doubt, still have to contend with the matter of transport. At the Pakuranga Hunt meeting on Saturday, T. Green rode the winner of the first division of the Second Sylvia Park Handicap and S. Green the second division winner. So far as is known these jockeys are not related. y

The Sydney horse, Turn Again, won the £2.500 Newcastle Cup on Saturday. He led throughout and won comfortably from Man o’ War and Moorland. The Sydney ‘ Sun’s ’ turf correspondent reports that negotiations for the purchase of Pensacola, the New Zealand Derby winner, have fallen through. A Sydney owner had offered ‘J.OQOgs for the horse. The Addington Trotting Stakes, for unhoppled and half-hoppled trotters, four and five-year-old, at time of starting, and the Metropolitan Stakes, for four-year-old pacers, -will be two of the star attractions a Addington on Saturday. In the Trotting Stakes four-year-olds will be handicapped on the limit, and five-year-olds on 36yds. Any five-year-old having previously won two ot more races will be placed 60yds behind. No horse will be penalised more than 24yds. In.the Metropolitan Stakes the winner of one or more races during the past season will be penalised 24yds, and any horse running second 12yds. In each rac-e the authorities reserve the right to select the field. The annual report of the Waikonaiti Racing Club, to be presented at the meeting on August 25, states that the accounts disclose a net profit of £741 15s od, after making provision for taxation (£420) and full depreciation on buildings, plant, etc. The annual race meeting was again most successful, the totalisator fiirnbver' increasing from £31,399 in 1944 to £39.534, a further record for the club. The introduction of the win and place totalisator was no doubt responsible for a large proportion of this increase, added the report. The retiring officers are:—Messrs A. W. Douglass (president), 11. M. Templeton and J. H. Rochfort (vice-presi-dents), W. Higgins (lion, treasurer!, P Toomey and J. F. (committee), all of whom offer themselves for re-election. The club membership now stands at 149 (as against 138 last year). Mr H. Halliday will not be contesting the vice-presidency of the committee of the Forburv Park Trotting Club. As soon as his son returns from overseas Mr Halliday will be handing over the reins of business to him, and will leave Dunedin for a lengthy holiday. Mr Halliday feels that he has served his term with the club. In the event of being elected, this would possibly mean another election later ■ in the

year, and he is consequently withdrawing. Mr Halliday’s sporting gesture is to be commended. Mr H. Archbold was also nominated for the office, and his election will follow automatically.