TOTALISATOR ARRANGEMENTS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17327, 26 November 1919, Page 11

TOTALISATOR ARRANGEMENTS.

NEW PROCEDURE AT ELLERSLIE. A special meeting of the A.R.C. Committee was held yesterday, when the Hon. E. Mitchelson, who has just returned from a _ visit to Australia, was in the chair. j When in Sydney Mr. Mitchelson was shown a new issuing machine in use at ! Randwick, which is there used for taking ! investments early in the day on the lead° ing event. The issuer is closed down when the particular race comes due, and the investments made, which are not ftbown previously, are transferred to the various horses on the main machine. Two of these issuers have been ordered, and. if delivered in time, will be installed for the forthcoming summer meeting. The public, will thus have an opportunity, if they desire, of making their investments on, say, the Auckland Cup, an hour or two before that race is run, and avoid the crush through waiting until the main machine opens. In addition to these two machines there will be four additional ticket-issuing machines opened on each race, and in order to minimise the time in dealing with the public, change boxes will be provided, where the public can obtain the correct amount of change they wish to invest, and avoid the necessity of getting same from the selling windows. The committee are quit* alive to the possible record demands that will require to be met at the forthcoming summer gatherin?, and every effort will he made to m<?et the public requirements in all departments, and maintain the high standard always set at Ellerslie. 1 INTER PROVINCIAL GOSSIP. [BT (TELEGRAPH.— OWN CORRESPONDENTS.] CANTERBURY. Tuesday. Following on the bustle aryl excitement of the spring racing carnival normal con ditions are again in evidence at Riccarton, All the visiting trainers have returned to their homes and the members of local teams are enjoying a temporary let up as a. preliminary to being got ready for the • holiday meetings. R. J. Mason has not been at the track with his charges during the past • week, but he will soon have them going again with a view to Ellerslie engagements. Sir George Clifford will also nave a good team for the Auckland meeting, and he may send some horses to the Manawatu fixture. Outside these two stables I have not heard of many horses being under orders for the North. From what I can learn it is probable i lat the Dunedin and Southland meetings will claim a lot of attention from Cante-.bury owners during the Christmas and N<:w Year holidays. The Riccarton trainer Murray Hobbs is in a bad state of health at present. Acting under medical advice he was compelled to miss the conclusion of the C.J.C. spring meeting.

Sir George Clifford has sold the three-year-old Strathglass to the Otago sports'man, Mr. W. H. L. Christie.

The hurdler Austin did not return to the North Island after racing here, being left at Riccarton as a member of R. W. King's team. As a result of an inquiry into the cause of Demos falling in the Jockey Clnb Handicap at the Canterbury Jockey Club'? meeting R. Reed, the rider of Maioha, was reprimanded, while S. Walls was fined £10 for crossing the field at the start of an other race. There were other cases which well might have claimed official notice, as there was a lot of rough riding at the meetings. The only way to deal effectively with this kind of thing is to give the offenders a good holiday. Kleus was the' most unlucky horse who raced at the Canterbury Jockey Club'smeeting. He started four times, finishing in second place in three of his races. On one occasion he got into accidental trouble on the journey, while on another : he was the victim of what looked very i much like deliberate interference.

Bonnetter, who won the principal event at the South Canterbury meeting last week, has been racing very consistently during the last few weeks. She finished tip her task in. fine style, and the manner in which she got to the end of a mile and a-quarter suggested further good deeds over even longer journeys. She is certainly bred on staying lines. A couple of accidents early in her career prevented her from racing till this season, and now as a, four-year-old she has repaid her owner, Mr. G. L. Stead, for early disappointment?.

WELLINGTON. Tuesday. There has been very little galloping on the local tracks since the Cup meeting, the majority of trainers having been giving their teams a silght let up. However, with . the near approach of the holiday fixtures, the local teams will all begin to do some galloping now. A Southern buyer ha* been up tJiis way looking for a suitable horse to carry ' his colours in hurdle races at the West > Coast meetings at Christmas. » - i The Trentham mentors, J. McLaughlin and J. Ay res. have been confined to their ■ rooms since their return from the Cup meeting. Both are suffering from bad colds, but are improving. A. Goodman is taking Russet, Rose Pink, and Trentham Rose to-the Feilding meeting. The two former are to be ridden by A. Reed. C. Pritchard will also make the trip with Rienzi. Matatua. and Restful. The trip to Riccarton appears to have done Astinome a lot of good, and she is now working in her best form. She "is to do the Palmerston North and Wairarapa meetings at Christmas. The disappointing Matty is agaiu amongst the workers at Trentham. She has been given a spell and looks well after it. It is her trainer's intention to give her a light preparation only to see if she can be got '-to reproduce her earlier form. Canyon, the latest addition to C. Pritehard's team at Trentham, is a very likelylooking filly by Wolowa from Wairakau (dam of Ohiwia). The filly has not got any imrfiediate engagements, and is to be given plenty of time. Battle Song, Bonnie Maid, and Sonnino from J. Ayers' stable, are to race at the Auckland summer meeting. Battle Song looks very well, and appears likely to do further service for her owner this season. Jackaroo, who fell and hurt himself prior to the Wellington meeting, and was given a short spell, was taken up again last week, but he again showed signs of lameness, and will require a further rest. WANGANUI. Tuesday'. H. Rayner has a big opinion of tne yearling filly by San Fran out of Star Queen, which he has under his charge. The halfsister to Starengo looks like one that should be able to gallop, as she is built on the right lines. The three-year-old full sister to Nemaline, in the same stable, is a fine big filly, and she gives promise of developing into a good one. The full sister to Signorella, which Rayner has Acre and Cool pari are said to be in capital form, and the former is expected to run' a big race in the Feilding Stakes. ; However, he should be seen to more ad- | vantage on the second day, as he usually j needs a race or two to liven him up before j he will do his best. j Rose Queen looks well after her trip to Auckland, where she did no good. She is likelv to do better later on, though she is expected to run well in the open welter at Feilding on Saturday. H. Ravner intends taking Carmel Arch. Simon. Nemaline, and Signorella to ; ing. The former lias been doing gooo work at Waverley, and if he does not go off as a result of travelling he will be hard to beat i" the Flying, as he is' nicely weighted with 7st 31b. Simon appears to have made some improvement lately, and he may break his run of seconds by getting his nose in front in a race at Feilding. He will be more seasoned than most of those engaged in the Trial. just taken in hand, is a four-year-old, and she looks a good sort, and is moving in attractive style. A number of Wanganui horses will be J running at Feilding next Saturday, and 1 they should pick up a race or two between I : them. |