CLUBS UNITE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22775, 8 July 1937, Page 9

CLUBS UNITE

CENTRE AT TAURANGA BAY OF PLENTY MERGER DETAILS NOW COMPLETE [RY TELEGRAM- —OWN CORRESPONDENT] TAURANGA, Wednesday Twenty-five members of the executive of the Bay of Plenty Racing Club and the Opotiki Jockey Club met at Tauranga last night, and completed details of the clubs' amalgamation scheme. Mr. K. J. Ronnie, president of the Bay of Plenty Jockey Club. presided, and said lie regretted circumstances had arisen which prevented the continuance of ra<?e meetings in Opotiki. That club had had a long career and it had filtered well for racing. It was stated during the discussion that the Opotiki Club would have a credit of about £ISOO. The Oiiotiki Hunt Club was about to be established and the need for such a club in that portion of the Bay of Plenty was stressed by many speakers. Mr. C. Clarke, master of the Opotiki Hunt, made a suggestion that about £IOO annually would meet its requirements. It was also desired to erect a cottage for the huntsman and also to convert the property now leased into a freehold. The total amount required, in addition to annual contributions, would be about £6OO.

The following resolution was unanimously adopted by the delegates of each club separately, and then by both sitting as one body:—" That the amalgamation be arranged, and out of the funds of the Opotiki Jockey Club, £6OO be given to the Opotiki Hunt Club; that the amalgamated club agree to

an annual contribution of £IOO for a period of 10 years to the Hunt Club; that present members of tho Opotiki Jockey Club be admitted free to membership of the Bay of Plenty Jockey Club for seven years; that the life members of the Opotiki Club be admitted as life members of tho Bay of Plenty Club; that three Opotiki members be added to the committee of tho Bay of Plenty Club, also that ono vice-president be elected by Opotiki members." The chairman said ho took it that the name of the Bay of Plenty Uacinp; Citib would continue, lie moved. "That this meeting of delegates of the Bay of Plenty Pacing Club and tho Opotiki Jockey Club agrees to the amalgamation of the two clubs on tho lines set out in tho previous resolution."

The motion was carried unanimously and a sub-committee was appointed to draft the necessary amendments to tho rules of the club.

Mr. U. A. Medley, speaking for the Opotiki delegates, said his club was very pleased to bo associated with such a fine sporting body as the Bay of Plenty Pacing Club.

W. CLIFTON'S WINNERS GOOD FORM OF GOLD DREDGE In addition to F. J. Smith's 31 wins, other Takanini trainers to be successful were W. Clifton, C. H. Goodall and E. X. Kennerlev, their wins bringing the total to 38 for the Auckland and provincial area. Clifton's main stay was Gold Dredge, ■who registered two wins, two seconds and two thirds for £'445. Since being purchased by Mrs. C. McGregor the Bev de Oro mare has been a fine stakeearner and she does not appear to have reached lier limit yet. After losing form for several seasons, Guid Hairst effected a come-back for Clifton, securing £IBO with a first, second and third. The promising three-year-old Bronze Queen was second at Hamilton and her future prospects look bright. C. H. Goodall, who transferred to Takanini after the February meeting, ■won with Kewpie's King an.d Ranfurly Lass, two pacers who were more or less lame when they joined the stable. Their winnings totalled £215, but Kewpie's King, while trained at Epsom, won twice. Goodall has a useful team, and, in addition to the two mentioned, CcJleen Murphy, Worthy Song, Ann Pointer, Gay Sister, Winaway, Torpedo King and Jewel Crest are under his care.

E. N. Kennerley scored two firsts and a second with Impostor, valued at £'2Bo, but when he first arrived at Epsom from Canterbury the Sonoma Harvester horse won £lB5. Jm poster ivas one of the outstanding performers of the season, creating a record at the April meeting by scoring at both the trotting and pacing gait. Impostor attempted the feat at the June meeting, but was unplaced in both races. Kennerlev's latest charge. Loyal Direct, is a young mare whose showing last month indicates she will prove a success later on.

NOTES FROM EVERYWHERE TRACK AND STABLE GOSSIP Gay Defence has been fired and turned out. A Sydney cablegram records that H. E. Russell has sold Golden Treasure to a patron of M. Papworth for a fourfigure sum. Professional lias been physicked and will bo an absentee from the Takanini tracks for a short while, after which he will probably be put regularly to jumping.

Gaysoine has again been put into work at Riecarton 'by Mrs. J. Campbell. She did not secure a win this season, but she gained a number of minor places during the spring and summer.

Kairangi, a rising four-year-old gelding by Dolomite from Miss Bradbury, formerly in l'\ Christmas' stable, has been shipped to the North Island to be used as a hack, after which he may be tried as a jumper. Kairangi was placed a couple of times on tho West Coast circuit.

Only 0110 ticket was taken 011 the winning combination at Haydock Park, England, on JJay ]l, and the return was £9OB 8s for 10s. There were seven runners for the first leg of the double, the winner's straight-out price in the ring being 20 to 1 (the tote paid 'l4 to 1) and the winner of the second leg was a 12 to 1 chance.

The lease of Santa Casa, who has 11.2 in the Victoria Grand National Steeplechase, which expires at the end of this month, has been renewed to J. P. Devine "for the term of the gelding's racing career or until he shall be awarded 12.7 or 13,0 in races." Evidently his ow'ner, Mr. A. F. Wallace, does not wish the horse to carry excessive weights, but should he win the National next Saturday bis racing career under this restrictive clause is likelv to be uncommonly short.

.Mr. W. .1. Carson has registered the name Selkirk for his lD.'o colt by Defoe from Giglot whom he purchased at the January sales for 05 guineas and for whom he has already refused a substantinl advance on that figure. Mr. Carson qays he had pencilled a mating of his maro Dawning Light with Pheleron Bay. but, in view of the fact that excuses wore made for tier defear in the Milson Handicap at the Manawatu meeting, sho will do given another race at Mar ton before a final decision is made.