JOCKEY CLUB.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 196, 21 July 1941, Page 2

JOCKEY CLUB.

The sixty-second annual report of the Feilding Joikey Club records a !0.-s on the year’s o> oral it ns of £4oB 16c 7d alter wriiing iff di preciai.on amounting to J. 1153 3s 3d. For the year under review stake money was ineieased by tied and a prize of £25 was given lor the most successful trainer ai the Faster fixture.,, Owners supported both meetings very liberally , and. but for the inc.emenl weather on barter Monday, the club would bave bad a very ruceomjiul siason. There "as kceu ,competition ior the iraincrV trophy, which was won by Mr D. T. Marks with Mr W. McA. Duncan's small bill -oioct team. Ihe lotaiisator turnover was £90,b55 iOs, an increase ol £2238 over the* previous year. No permanent improvements weie carri.d out, but £SOO was spent on re tearing all asphalt work. The club records with deep regret the death of live tiicmbcis, Messrs K. 'l. llroadbelt, 11. S. < ornloot. J. Militancy. A. K. Sporle and \V. Wilkinson. The retiring officers and committeemen have been renominated and no election will be necessaiv. Mr L. T. McLean is once again president and Mr N. J. Short vice-president, while Mr \V: J. Shannon s lion, tieusurer. The committeemen re-oitcted are Aiti-srs If. J. Harper, A. 11. Sullen. W E. Thomas and James Wait.