SPORTING.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18930, 27 April 1933, Page 8

SPORTING.

RACING IN ENGLANDt

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS, WON BY RODOSTO, United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received April 27, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 26. The Two Thousand Guineas which was run at Newmarket to-day, resulted : RODOSTO 1 KING SALMAN 2 GINO 3 Twenty-seven started. Won by a length with three-quarters of a length between second and third. AUSTRALIAN RAOE MEETINGS. SOME STRONG CRITICISM. AUCKLAND, Thursday. Mr. A. G. Mabee, secretary of th# Auckland Trotting Club, returned to Auckland by the Wanganella from Sydney this morning. Only one trotting meeting was at-, tended by Mr. Mabee. He said that was enough for him. “ Harold Park is a small course and does not compare in any way with our own,’ he said. “ The ‘tote’ was deserted and everybody swarmed round the ‘bookies’ In their efforts to get th.o best price. If one of the ‘bookies’ raised the price a point, there was a general stampede. I did not like the aftmosphere of the place. They can’t teach us anything in the way of conducting meetings.” “I don’t think the New Zealand publio would tolerate for a moment what they have to put up with over there," said Mr. Mabee, in referring to the Randwick meetings. “ Members of the New Zealand publio occasionally come along with trivial complaints, but if they were at Randwick they would have some Justifiable complaints. I saw 4000 people, who had arrived by trams, hemmed in a narrow passageway between the Leger and the enclosure and kept there for 20 minutes before the officials opened the gates on to the ‘flats.’ When the gates were opened the people swarmed across like a flock of sheep. If there are not enough windows open at the ‘tote’ the people have to wait. But the publio seem to be used to it, and they are not studied.” The racing was excellent, and the events were well conducted, but the accommodation for the public was poor. The teahouse on the lawn at Randwick was not as good as the “outside" iat Ellerslie. For Is 6d you got a cup of tea, a sandwich and a couple of cakes—and the people swarmed to pay their one-and-six-pences,. '