TOTE FIGURES DROP.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 191, 13 August 1931, Page 9

TOTE FIGURES DROP.

Decrease of £22,252 in Three Days. RAILWAY RECEIPTS FALL. A decrease of £22,252 is shown in the totalisator figures for the two days of i the Metropolitan Trotting C'lub’s meet- i mg and the first day of the Grand i National meeting this year, as com- ! pared with last year's receipts. A big drop was also recorded last August when, for the first three days, | the decrease was £-13.260, compared ! with the 1929 meetings. The detailed figures for totalisator ] takings are given below; Metropolitan Trots. 1929 1930 1931 ! ££ £ I First day 34,010 23,421 20,278 j Second day ... 49,720 37,158 25,588 The decrease on these figures, compared with last year is £14,713, and the total is £38,464 less than in 1929. C.J.C. Races. 1929 1930 1931 £ £ £ First day 62,086 42,565 34,105 This year the turnover was £8460 less than in 1930, and there was a drop of £27,981 compared with 1929. It will be remembered that at the last November meetings of the C.J.C. and the Metropolitan Trotting Club, big decreases in revenue were recorded. 1 he decrease for four days’ gallops was £57,247 10s, and for three days’ trotting, the drop was £12,531. Passengers Fewer. i Railway receipts, in common with j totalisator returns, again suffered a ; marked drop this week. The number j of passengers carried to the race-oprse j decreased by over 100. This year the • first day’s bookings were 205 first class passengers and 883 second class, comI pared with 2/7 first class and 936 second j last year. COSSACK CHIEF DESTROYED When Cossack Chief fell in the Spreydon Hurdle Handicap he broke a leg and had to be destroyed. The jockey, G. Dempster, was badly shaken.