LESS MONEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 78, 23 June 1927, Page 6

LESS MONEY

RACEGOERS’ SPECULATION SUBSTANTIAL DECLINE With the conclusion of the Auckland Trotting Club’s winter meeting yesterday, it is possible to arrive at the totalisator figures for the Auckland province for the racing year ending July 31, the trotting fixture being the final gathering in the province. For the year the totalisator, for racing and trotting meetings, handled £2,582,023, compared with £2,964,572 the previous year. The decrease shown amounts to £382,549, which represents approximately 124 per cent. There is always money about for horse racing, the legal vent for an inherited fancy to gamble, and the decline in totalisator investments may be taken as a sign of the hard times. At the trotting club’s meeting the totalisator handled pared with £103,047 at the winter fixture in 1926, a decline of £13,156 10s. A.R.C. DECREASE The total for the four meetings of the Auckland Club was £386,514, against £467,351 10s in the previous season. Including all provincial trotting meetings the receipts were £721,536, or £114,345 10s less than in the previous season, when the aggregate receipts amounted to £835,881 10s. The figures for the past three seasons are as follow: 1924-25. 1925-26. 1926-27. Racing £2,106,797 £2,125,6904 £1,860,487 Trotting £712,2501 £S3S,SSII £721.536 Totals £2,819,0474 £2,964,572 £2,582,023 LEADING JOCKEY STOOD DOWN FOR YEAR By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyriyht SYDNEY, June 22. One of Australia’s leading jockeys. J. Munro, has been disqualified for 12 months by the Australian Jockey Club’s stipendiary stewards for improper conduct in connection with the running of the horse Songift at the Canterbury Park meeting on Saturday. The horse and its trainer, S. B. Kelly, have been disqualified for a similar period.—A. and N.Z.