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RACING NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIACrowds Crowds anil Setting1 Enormously Increase Doings of the Good Horses SYDNEY X S AV Australia Fob 15 Betting has enormously increased In Australia of lain anil in public throngs at tin various meetings are larger than over Crowils of 100000 arc ficiiicnt it the Randwick Flcmington anil Caulfield ronrscs anil the betting totals by machine which arc usually but half the daily sum of speculation frequently inn to the i250000 mark The total for Randwick alone is likely to be over S5UOOO0 Iast season it was 3527031 For the current season the machine take at Randwieks twelve racing days has totakil S3175SS1 Avith tin eight biggest days to come Here arc the comparative totals by meet ¬ ings at Randwick for the twelve days of 1111 and 1120 Meetings Days 1 20 Xattersalls Spring I 207750 182215 182215Australian Australian Jockey Club ClubSpring Spring 4 1371751 lHtWW lHtWWCity City Tattorsalls Spring 214 1S3 198450 Australian Jockey Club ClubAutumn Autumn 1 213 3l 100753 100753Australian Australian Jockey Club ClubSummer Summer I 2S274U 250411 250411Tattcrsalls Tattcrsalls Annual 2 435212 rl502 rl502Australian Australian Jockey Club ClubAnniversary Anniversary 2 151878 39001 39001Totals Totals 12 3175SSI 71S5S 71S5SA A llordern who won thf Huncaster Handicap with First Irinciple in 1014 is again taking up racing and last week bought ICeniford from his brother Sir Samuel llordern and the twoyearold Viclrola from II A Taylor The prices paid have not been made public but rumor places them at 10001 and a winning contingency for Aictrola and something like S7500 for Kenilford Kenilford was bought last spring by Sir S llordern for 15000 and a contingency when he appeared to have a good chance of winning tlie Melbourne Cup He failed in that nut is a good colt coltSurveyor Surveyor the New Zealand crack was unequal to winning the Wellington Cup for which ho started favorite but at the same meeting he ran first in one tiireeiiuarUrs race and second in another His racing did him good ami at the Tarauaki Club meeting last week he won tie Taranaki Cup at one and a Mtarter miles in which with 121 pounds up he beat Karo 131 pounds in 207Vi It is possible Surveyor may come to Sydney for the Australian Jockey Club meeting meetingAt At latest ioaming was on the easy list so it is safe to assume he will not be nominated for the Australian Jockey Club weightforage races and at Kossini has been sold trainer Mason will have nothing to make up a team for the big Australian meetings meetingsARTILLERYMAN ARTILLERYMAN AND RICHMOND MAIN MAINThe The sensational threeyearolds Artilleryman and liichinond Main an coming to condition again though the latter is still resting The Melbourne Cup pair are accounted the best of the threeyear olds but iKith have had mishaps Artilleryman wrenched his back but is at work and pointing for the St Leger which will be a gift to him if ready The best he has to meet in it are Whiz Iang and Clan Findou neither in the first class classRichmond Richmond Main which has not resumed work at Randwick has been withdrawn from his Australian Jockey Clui niitumn engagements Although he is making a good recovery from his recent injury he will not In trained again for some time timeCarbines Carbines skeleton will soon reach the authorities of tJie Melbourne Public Library and Museum and at the suggestion ol 1rofessor Woodruff Mr Nor ¬ man Falkiner will give tin carcass of Comedy King to the Melbourne Veterinarv School when that horse dies diesThe The totalizator turnover for the three days of the Wellington New Zealand meeting was SHi5M 7 against 5JJ15 for two days at the corresponding fixture last season The Douro Cup l tal on the second day of the meeting was a record for Welling ¬ ton KANGAROO
