SPORTING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8163, 24 July 1906, Page 3

SPORTING.

TURF TOPICS. ["Bv Mo.tiioa."[ The Racing Conference, which met : at Wellington last week, evidently recognises the fact that there is sutlicieui racing in New Zealand at the present time by refusing to grunt a number of new applications for totalisator permits, but it is dillicult to understand why a linrd day's racing was grantc.l ■', the Mauawatu Club, and a fec,iid .lay refused to Ashurst. which is credited with holding one of . the lie-t one day meetings in the colony. The nature of the stake in each event is not less than t'lljo, while there are .-ome Ceios holding a two days' meeting without a single -take id this value. The subject «:, ihe cause of considerable diseii si.,ij in il u - Conference, and it would appear thai ', the totalisato: is responsible lor this decision, as one, of jthc members explained that " the Manawalu Club would have to give very large slakes at its Christmas meeting, owing to iliei increased totalizator revenue." From this may be deduced the l;n t that the Clubs who eieh year have such a largo increase in their totalisalor returns will in i;:ue have to either give enormia -takes jr continue their meetings over three or tour days; so that if the 7', per cent, revenue trom the machine -ti'i continues, we may, without any stretch oi imagination, epect to tiud these clubs in ten or twelve years' time, giving thousands uf pounds in stakes and holding a four days' meeting. They might also continue to e ilarge and improve their racecourse and grounds beyond all need and rcijuircmei .-. U (hi, ncces--1 ~irv, may J ask- Wha; a lot ~|

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