TRAINING FACILITIES PRAISED

Chronicle (Levin), 14 January 1947, Page 2

TRAINING FACILITIES PRAISED

The opinion that the Ellerslie training tracks were far superior to those in New South .Wales and Queensland was expressed last week by a leading Sydney trainer, Charles McLoughlin, who was a visitor to the Auckland Racing Club's summer carnival. McLoughlin, wlio is on liis way to the National Yearling Saies at Trentham this week, said that tlie training facilities at Ellerslie were the best he had seen anywhere. In Sydney the tracks were in a slioeking condition, more especially at Kandwick, whiclx was a real ' Miovel" and not to be compared with Ellerslie, where trainers did not know how well off they were. It is interesting to observe, incidentally, that trainers from many parts of the Dominion present at Ellerslie for Christmas racing, were also loud in their praise of Ellerslie as a training centre. McLoughlin was also impressed by Auckland 's leading racecourse's glorious setting. The absence of the bookmakers and the ' ' roar of the ring ' ' was another feature of racing in New Zealand that appealed to the visiting trainer. "We would be racing for ten times as much in stakes in Australia," he said, '/if the totalisator only was used for betting. "