RACING

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 441, 24 August 1928, Page 7

RACING

-^Continued.) WAIKATO’S YEAR WAS NOT A SUCCESS STAKES REDUCTION JUSTIFIED In the report which will be submitted t* l ® annual meeting of members of Uie Waikato Racing: Club, the commit* states: “in submitting: the annual statement of accounts for the consideration of members, your committee resets that the year ended July 31, 1928, oas not been a linancial success. From . Income and expenditure accounts Jou will see that £124 5s lid has been ransferred to the debit of the accumufunds. In view of the general in totalisator turnover your committee deemed it advisable to re- -»^ le stakes for the season by i was quite justified, and •' Ui leaves the stakes higher than the mount required by the rules of racing. . totalisator receipts amounted .7*14,027 Os 6d. being a decrease of v? y , £ -49 14s 9d on the previous ' ars returns. The Government taxes tnl? U * nted to £ 7,653 17s lid. Rates • a taxes for the year show an inhpea«e of £2OB 19s 4d, which was ri i«Wh about by a revaluation of the '7 s Property. The first day of the cl i\ n meeting was a record for the t a a t Te Rapa, both as regards atnnff Ce and totalisator turnover, but. p ortuna toly, the second day brought \phnT ona^y rough and wet weather, brought down the average for ae meeting.” do ; eßßrs - W. Vercoe and F. R. Sedoffi* WerG °nly nominees for the a ses5 es President and vice-president, D Were therefore re-elected unop- - d. p or the six vacanc i es on the \r?2 ittee Messrs. C. Christie, IT. O. M. Monckton. J. F. , ®* Tapp and S. V. Tyler were Reefed unopposed. ROSCREA’S SPRINT A SMART SEVEN FURLONGS United P.A\—By Telegraph — Copyright) e cd. 9.30 a.m. SYDNEY, To-day. do T V 6 ,?^ ew Zealand horses continue to e Xcell + n tlie tracks * Roscrea did an 1.291 ent seven furlongs on the tan in •siarti. going with him Shad* Tlle ew Zealanders, In the strnno and Prince Humphrey, did a mile in 1.47. v. LAWN TENNIS