SPORTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16285, 19 January 1915, Page 7

SPORTING

TRENTIIAM TRAINING NOTES. iPkb Uni'jt.h I'ip-ss Association.! WKLLINGTON, January 16. At Trcntha.ru this morning most of the work done was on the gnus track next the rails. Jndigo mid .Vices went seven furlongs, finishing in that, order, in lmin 31 Jp, and Merry Guy beat Kougaro over five furlongs in lmin sisco. Mount Victoria and Immer were in that order ut the end of four furlongs, 'run in 50scc. Pavlova covered seven furlongs in lniin 20sec, and Fashion Plato was six lengths iu front of Gold Necklace at the finish of six furlongs iu lmin 20sec. Belasco was too good lor Coldstream over half a mile iu SOsec, and Happiness beat Taringamutu over a similar distance, in 50j,seo. Kdrain and I*wloga ran seven furlongs. The latter, who had the outside running and carried the heavier burden, appeared to do best. Bimrter ran a fast half-mile, ami Chudic beat Ogier in a six furlong spin in lniin 17sec. Stepney did five furlongs in lmin 3Asoc, and Miraculous finished in front of Chakwana at the end of a similar journey in lmin 3sec. Jem ran six furlongs iu lmin 19see. Banksia and Emperador finished together after doing seven furlongs in lmin 31scc, and Rerehau, Martian Princess, and Ormesby were in that order at. the end of five furlongs in lmin 4sec. Rerehau had an advantage at the start. Beldame and Marshal M'Donald went a mile, but were not doing their best. Plunder was better than Arlington over seven furlongs, left behind in lmin 32isec. Lady Vladimir took 51scc to run half a mile, and Sartovna galloped five furlongs in lmin 4Asoc. Killaloo, Iliad's Herb, Dribble, Blaekall, Football, Downham. and others were also out. Sea Pink and Trv Hard are coming from Hastings to-night, also Cameron's, O'Neill's, and Collelo's teams. Desert Gold has not been brought from Hastings. NOTES BY "SENTINEL." Mr A. G. Wood has been appointed starter to tho Waimatc Racing Club. '1 ho well-known paecr Calm was sold under the hammer iu Christchurch on Saturday to Mr W. B. Clarkson at 215gs. Indigo is credited with running a good gallop over a mile on the outside ot the Hastings track prior to leaving for Trentham. Kilrain will be ridden in the Wellington Cup by L. Wilson, Pavlova, by L. Young, Indigo' by H. Stowc, and Ogier by It. Buddicombe. Mr .1. 11. Tompkins has again been appointed starter for trotting events at the Waimate meeting. Mr J. F. Reid, owner of the Bumside stud, has had the great misfortune to lose hid stallion Ilokoby, who died at tho latter end of last week. Rokoby was a particularly fine type of horse, and got by Rock St.nd, whose stock are doing so well at Home. Rokeby's stock bear a most promising appearance, and it is a matter of great regret that such a promising horse should be lost to the country. The Southland Racing Club lias disqualified Brooksdale for tho A venal Y\ olter Handicap, which that horse won ." ihe recent summer meeting, and awar;. tho stakes to Caraid Dillms, who ran saorid. Dr W. Robertson, the owner of Brooksdale, has been fined £20 for failure to appear at a meeting of tho S.R.C. Judicial Committee when notified to do so. A. D. M'lvor, who had Brooksdale in his 'stable, is to be officially informed that ,it is the duty of trainers to rectify any errors that may appear in race cards in connection with horses in their charge. Brooksdale was objected against on the ground that he was entered at Invcreargill as trained by owner, whereas he was in MTvor's stable at Riverton for some time prior to tho meeting, and hence not under the care of his owner. Judging by the decision, the evidence was conclusive on this point, and hence the club's verdict According to information from the south, the owner was lined under rule 2, part IV, but th:s seems an obvious error, as the rule does not seem to fit the case. Tho matter, howevw, has to go before the Metropolitan ChO, and here ' tho case rests in the meantime. In a conversation .with Mr H. H. Gorton, who is the superintending mechanician in connection with tho new totalisator installed at Ellerslie (says "Phaeton "), I learned yet another device was added to the machino at the summer meeting just concluded, in the form of a magazine for automatically stamping the tickets, and at the same time recording tho investment on the machine. The arrangement is such that a given number of tickets are placed in recoptacles provided for tho purpose and locked up in the magazine in readiness for each race. Tho clerk has in front of him a series of numbered buttons, and' all that ho has to do when asked for a ticket is to press the button bearing the corresiionding number, and by this one action the ticket is recorded, stamped, and ejected on the counter in front of him. 'ihe clerk does not handle the ticket in any way before it is ready to pass over to the customer, and, therelore, tho time wasted at present in picking out each ticket required from a box before it can be stanrpid is saved, which :n itself makes p. considerable difference in the number of people that can be served with tickets in a given time, and is a very great consideration when it comes to the last two or three minutes before the closing of the tote for each race. Although, owing to structural arrangements of the building and so on, this machino was only temporarily erected, and was in consequence worked at a considerable disadvantage, tho fact that "more money was handled at this window as comoarcd with some of thoso in charge of the smartest men on the e'-.i svstem with the rubber stamps, \xm aftc- the" test it was given at four such «nys us tho last Ellerslie meeting,' little room can be left for doubt as to its efficiency and speed. There is an extremely remote chance of bookmakers being legally recognised on our i«cccourses again, but nevertheless it is very'interesting to read the following from "Vigilant" of the London as it must b? allowed to bo clear of local bias: "The report, circulated by Rcuter that an agitation is on foot in Australia to legalise the totalisator there will not be received with satisfaction by lovers of racing in this country. The suggestion that tho totalisator makes for 'cleanness' is certainly not borne out by experience in France, where thoso who have the real welfare of the turf at heart would bo glad to sec a return to the open market. It is a well-founded reproach against the totalisator (says the writer named) that it is a mero gambling machine, for the personal element does not enter into speculation, seeing that tho bettor can.not know at the time what price he is taking, and so has no opportunity of exercising his judgment as to whether it represents fairly the horse's chance. There is also to be considered the question of the secrecy that governs all transactions, whereas in the open market no rascality could be perpetrated without recorded bets being of use in tracing the matter to its source. The ' Goudio' swindles, for instance, would never have led to the conviction of the instigators of tho robberies if the money had been disposed of through the totalisator. A parrot cry of 'pinched prices' goes up periodically in this country, but the answer to that is the fact that, for a bookmaker's purooses, the strength of each field is the number of horses backed, and if tho so-called talent will wait for the chief commissioners to show their hands before operating and the general public follows suit, it is obvious that the small number of horses backed must lead to short prices owing to the paucity of field money." BEAUMONT JOCKEY CLUB. At the annual meeting of the Beaumont Jockey Club, held on Saturday night and largely attended, Mr James Bennet was reappointed president and Mr T. Philjipps secretary. It was resolved that the Programme Committee be recommended to increase the stakes by £53, making the total £430, as against £3:0 paid out last 3'ear. The Grounds Committee was instructed to report to a gen:r,il meeting en Friday n'ght as to necessary improvements to the buildings and course. It was mentioned by the chairman that last year £200 had spent in improving the appointments, and that this expenditure had been met without trenching upon the fixed deposit of £250. In view of the railway facilities now available, it ■was resolved to apply immediately for a special train from Dunedin on Easter Monday, and tho fecrctary and treasurer were authorised to pay tho necessary deposit. TENNIS. A match between tho married and single members was played on the Milton Tennis Courts on Saturday afternoon, an enjoyable game resulting in victory for the Benedicts by 4 points (63-04).