NOT PROFITABLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16826, 13 December 1928, Page 7

NOT PROFITABLE

TRAINING OF HORSES WHERE MONEY REALLY IS (Special to tho Herald.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. '•There's no profit in training horses. The only money one makes is by training winners and betting on them," declared Richard Emerson, a retired horse trainer, in the Magistrate's Court yesterday. Emerson, as a destituto person, applied for a maintenance order against his sons, William Henry Emerson and Charles R. Emerson. Mr. Connal, who appeared for tho defendants, asked complainant whether it was a fact that ho had trained 131 or 14 horses at ope time. Tho complainant: No. Only eight or nine. "You are a good trainer?" asked Mr. Connal. Complainant: Well, I did my best. Mr. Connal: You should have made from £lO to £l2 a week. "What about the feed and paying the boys," replied the complainant. "There's no profit in it unless one trains winner? and backs them." Mr. Connal: Have you been betting verv heavilv? "I've had nothing to bet with," was the reply. The complainant admitted his son Charles had been good to him, and had given him £lO on one occasion. Mr. Connal said the net income o f the-defendant Charles was about £5(!0 a year. An order for 10s a week was made against William Emerson and an order for 30s a week against Charles Emerson.