MORE BETTING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23401, 18 July 1939, Page 7

MORE BETTING

totalisator figures increase 8 2 per cent AGGREGATES OF DISTRICTS OALIOriXG AND TROTTING With four hunt meetings, two in eM |, isln,,(l, to ko held prior to tho closing of tlio season at tho end of the month the betting figures for gallopi„c meetings show a substantial increase on the totals of recent years nn d clubs iu the Auckland Province have shared fully iu the advance. Of tho provisional increase over tho 193723 season of £142,726. 10s, the share 0 f the Auckland provincial district is £115,118./ . Tho nggi" e £ !lto investments at galloping meetings last season, including betting on trotting races held as part of programmes of the sister sport, was shown at tiie end of tho season as £5 289,415 10s, and that for tho 193637' season as £4.007,069 10s. To date tho totalisator aggregates for the current term aro £5,732,142 and if tlicy investments to come improve in 1110 ?anie r^tio tho approximate total will bo £0,751,500. The increase last' year over the previous season was about 12} per cent; that {or this season will be about 8J per cent. This indicates a slowing-up of tho rate of increase, and maybe the peak will bo reached in the new season. There are nine racing districts and the current figures in each are as under Auckland .. .. £2,001,408 Wellington .. .. 0(31,982 Canterbury .. .. 731,115 "Wanganui .. . • 005,270 Duncdin .. •• 354,071 Hawko's Bay .. 'J97.942 Southland .. .. 091,379 Taranaki .. .. 250.509 Gteymouth .. .. 103,4(34 / The respective figures in tho previous season show that tho increases everywhere havo been substantial, but those enjoved by clubs in the Wellington and Wanganui racing districts were proportionately greater than in other centres. - . The first substantial rise m totalisator betting occurred just before the Great War. In 1920 the totals of galloping and trotting meetings combined exceeded for tho first and only time £10,000,000. Tho lowest aggregate in the postwar years was that of 1932-33, when the investments for both sports had shrunk to £3.678.251. From the nadir of the depression the climb was steady and not sensational. As stated, it appears that the peak will bo reached in the next 42 months. Below is a table of the betting .figures in five-yearly periods, those for racing alone being given first, _ with the totals for racing and trotting in the second column: — Racing Season Racing and trottinc 1015-16 .. £3,800,750 £4,752,922 1920-21 7,945,609 10,121,212 1925-26 .. 6,311,184 8,605,582 1930-31 . 3.605.953 5,279,404 1932-33 .. 2,531.172 3,675,251 1935-36 .. 3,462,335 4,615,967 WAIMATE INCIDENTS C. T. WILSON'S SUCCESS HOW QUINOPAL LOST RACE BRILLIANT BOA CONSISTENT All the fences were laid out on the inside of the course proper at Waimate on Saturday and after the last jump the horses had to run on to tho course to finish in the straight. When the Hunt Cup Steeplechase field arrived at this point, Qtiinopal was less than a length in front of Panara, who was on the inside. Qtiinopal cut in and Panara had to be checked, but she got to within a head of Qtiinopal at the post. R. Register, rider of Panara, entered a protest, and the judicial committee awarded Panara first and Quinopal second place. Mount Val, who seems to have secured a new lease of life, easily won the Studholme Hurdles, but there was a great battle for second place between Red Terror, the pacemaker, and Black Banner. Red Terror, who contested steeplechases at the Dunedin meeting, has had/ little experience of hurdle racing, and it was Black Banner's first Sublic over the battens. The rand National candidate gave a good showing. jtfo Liking lor Battens Ballad tried to run off at tho first hurdle, when in front and at tho second he ran oil' in determined fashion, but continued in the race. His rider, H; Johnston, was fined £2 under the rule which provides that if a horse misses a jump iiis rider shall not proceed in the race until the jump has been taken. Prince Flaneur was not greatly fancied for the Wailiao Handicap, but after haying a lead of three lengths at the end of a quarter, just won from Brilliant' Boa, who fought it out all the way up the straight with the winner. Real Lady, the favourite, was aijoor third, failing to stay, as did also Withdrawal, who was fifth. Lady Middleham Improves Brilliant Boa had his revenge in the last race, the Wairnato Handicap, against Prince Rtieiialf, the year younger half-brother to his conqueror. ' ,tj lo eight starters six had competed earlier in the day. Prince Ruenalr, ono of tho newcomers, was a pronounced favourite. He shot to the front, but was joined by Real Lady at the end a furlong. Brilliant Boa was heady, excepting when he stumbled a jter a furlong nnd a-half. In ,tho circumstances his performance was excellent and Prince Ruenalf will do better. Lady' Middleham, a stable-mate of oil any Dawn, their trainer being W. • Cameron, won the Morvon Handicap by a narrow margin, and she had notW to spare from Silver Slipper, mushed very gamely on tho rails, winner running 'wide at the straight entrance. .> d ,y Middleham gave C. T. Wilson p., ,£ ( ! w ' n the day, his other ccessful mounts being Sunny Dawn and Prince Flaneur. These were his on| y three rides. WINNERS' REIIANDICAPS SOUTH CANTERBURY HUNT dec! are fl° 11 ? w ' n £ "'handicaps have been Hunt pi n .South Canterbury ht " d Vnl ' 7lb " ' r ",? toc ! > l«-' l '»se.—:Harknw.iv, 61b., !n| S1 s i2 'a*.'™*Prince Flaneur, Pi' ° lu -> niakini* 8.5. r C t Ilandi.p.-Lady Middleuam, jib., making 7.10.