RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25625, 28 August 1944, Page 2

RACING NEWS

liy Seiftinel The West Coast horse Sherwood Forest is now being trained by H. Lorngan at 1 The 'Two-year-old brother to Subdued in H. Dulieu’s stable is repprted to be shaping well in hre early sprints. After being off the scene smcc ApnL Tara King figures amongst the n 0 tions for the Wanganui meeting. Tara King has been kept in light sxercise,5 x ercise, ai d should be ready to race at the eatly SP Tig er^Tan!"who displayed a remarkable turn of speed at Auckland, did not score a win in 15 starts last season. His best form was shown in the two last races, in which he finished third and second. Tigei Tan is a four-year-old gelding by Cambria Park from Lysis, by Lysander—Adi Vunvavolo, by The Scribe. . W. H. Dwyer, after breaking away fiom training for some time, has resumed his calling at Levin. One of his charges is Conspicuous, a brother to Amia bl e h oleic r of the Australian and New Zealand mile record of lmin 342 sec. Conspicuous is also brilliant. He won his two races last season, but did not' stand training. An interesting member of Bagby s team is -the rising two-year-old filly Bhopal, by Robin Goodfellow from The Begum. Bhopal is a half-sister to Mazir, Stretto, Arvakur High Caste, Royal Descent, Nizam and Nawab, and for that reason alone she is sure to attract attention. She is not big, but she is sturdy, and gives the impression that she may come to . Detectives are investigating the theft of £2OOO from a safe deposit box in ub Tattersal’s Club, Sydney, on August 12. In the morning a Harold Park bookmakei withdrew £BOO from the box, leaving £2OOO. At night when he went to deposit his winnings until Monday ■ morning the £2OOO had gone. Detectives were told that the safe deposit box could have been opened only with a duplicate key. Iceland Spar, who is reported to be shaping well in his schooling oyer hurdles, was once regarded as a possible winner of the New Zealand Cup. He has not started since he ran in the Winter Cup of last season. , „ _ It is reported that the relatives, Bridge Acre and Al-Sirat. are not being taken to the Wanganui spring meeting, but wnl open the new season in October, probably with a race at’ Masterton as a prelude to fulfilling at the Wellington spring meeting. Bridge Acie ha. done very little work since being brought in from her winter spell. Her two-year-old full-brother, who cost Mr Cheesman 1600gns at the sales in January, is making up into an attractive horse. Not including*, income tax and nationU and security taxes, forudncha sum of £21,000 has been provided, the Welling ton Racing Club paid £107,153 in * axa tion on its racing operations last season. Totalisator tax amounted to £55,916, dividend tax, £48,924; stakes tax. £483, amusement tax on gate receipts, £1586, and amusement tax on members subscriptions. £243. The club’s revenue from the totalisator amounted to £134,834, and from gate receipts, £17,448. Fees from nominations, acceptances and forfeits mounted to £7471, about one-seventh of the sum given iU Th R ac i ng club accounts for the 1943-44 season reveal a net surplus of £5434. and in accordance with the club’s war-time policy this sum will be appropriated to patriotic piirposcs. The stewards’ report, which will be submitted to members at the annual meeting on September 11, states that public support during the year was well maintained, which was reflected in a record totalisator turnover of £1,110,325 in spite of severe restrictions on transport in «ie latter- part of the season.. The club distributed a record amount in stakes of £48,480. inu in keening with the stewards pol cy that with the present curtailment of race days it was the duty of clubs to circulate the maximum possible in prize money. Every effort was made to maintain tht racecourse buildings and Piaut.butlac.c of materials and labour made it difficult to do more than the most urgent repair.,. The necessity for a complete overhaul when conditions permitted was apparent. This would entail considerable outlay, ana to avoid such expense becoming a drain on any one financial year the stewards considered it advisable to take advantage of the Government provis on and accoraingly made application to set aside £SOOO for deferred maintenance.