HIGH DIVIDENDS ARE PAID AT TAURANGA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 25, 24 April 1950, Page 4

HIGH DIVIDENDS ARE PAID AT TAURANGA

Dividends were high at the Bay of Plenty Racing Club’s meeting held at Tauranga on Saturday and in most races were well into double figures. In addition the double for the day was the highest ever paid in New Zealand and was over £IOOO. Bettors in the first race had plenty to chew on when Whawhairehi romped in to pay just over £136 for a win and £26 for a place. But that was not all. M. Koperu rode Gametact to the front half way up the straight •in a later race and stayed there to pay £32 for those who had backed him for a win and for the more cautious on the place machine he returned £B. \ Then The Gent, the first leg of the double, came home and paid £22. The second leg, Fleet Fox, romped home later and returned £l9 but s for those lucky people who had backed the double the total return was £ll2B for £l. Only ten people struck the double on the course .of whom three were from Whakatane.

Whakatane people appeared to be meeting with some success on Saturday. Because of Whawhairehi’s fine performance at the Te Teko meeting many backed him and were well rewarded. One Whakatane man, it is reported, “could not go wrong.” He made over £9OO but unfortunately did not arrive .early enough for the first race to back Whawhairehi.