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AUSTRALIAN RACING NEWS Increase Totalizator Investments in Australia and New Zealand Prince of Wales Exercising Jump ¬ ers Jockeys in Labor Troubles Notes of the Sport SYDNEY X S AV Australia June 24 Racing at Raudwick for this season concluded on Saturday last and for the twenty days the totalizator turnover was S5P 5440 an advance of over 3000000 as co n pared witli the 191819 season However influei za adversely affected this state during tlie coucl iding four months of last season The greatest tnr lover this season was 524000 on Sydney Cup day when Cup investments alone totaled 157917 157917TotaJizutor TotaJizutor investments at each meeting at Rand wick this season has been as follows followsMeetings Meetings Totals TotalsTatts Tatts Spring 1 day 207750 207750Australian Australian Jockey Club Spring 4 days 1371751 1371751City City Tatts Spring 1 day 214183 214183Australian Australian Jockey Club December 1 day 212031 Australian Jockey Club Summer 1 day 282 74 74Talis Talis Annual 2 days 435242 435242Australian Australian Jockey Club Anniversary 2 days 451878 Australian Jockey Club Autumn 4 days 1439 547 547City City Tatts 1 day 234180 234180Tatts Tatts May 1 day 200700 200700Australian Australian Jockey Club AVinter 2days 003840 Total 5G544GO Hast seasons ligures for the corresponding twenty days totaled 3527031 The Australian Jockey Clubs figures last season were Spring meeting 1114 9 autumn meeting 44033 44033Betting Betting totals also run high this season in Xew Zealand The totalizator investments at the re ¬ cently ended Auckland meetings aggregated 9 482405 482405On On each day of the Australian Jockey Clubs winter meeting at Randwick racing is to commence at 1245 in the afternoon and one of the proposals at the coming meeting of the Xew Zealand Racing Conference is that in winter no race shall bo Used for later than 4 p in This proposal will meet with strong support as racing in a halflight is unfair to jockeys horses and backers backersThe The light in this country goes earlier than in the States or England EnglandAt At Randwick tlie morning of June 22 the Prince of AVales indulged in riding exercise and as is customary witli him in similar circumstances he had a dash over the jumps Tlie horses he rode included K T Austins Lord AAalla and S R Skuthorpes Cerise and Grey lie exercised the latter on the flat but he took the former over live schooling hurdles in good style and did similarly with a Xew Zealand hunter hunterIn In Xew Zealand the labor unions are now treat ¬ ing jockeys who are not members of the Jockeys Association as blacklegs At Gishornc last week four jockeys B Deeley E Lowe T Close and Manson who were to have taken part at tlie Xapier Park races and S Kraetzer race course detective had to return to the wharf by launch from tlie steamer Arahura which was in the road ¬ stead The launch left tlie wharf with passengers but previous to her departure the local manager of the tnion Company warned tlie riders that they might have to return on arrival at the Arahura Representatives of the liremen informed those ird the ship that they would not sail with the eys jind Kraetzer Tlie five men therefore re ¬ turned to the wharf but got to Gisborne overland in time for the races racesTOTALIZATOR TOTALIZATOR A NECESSITY NECESSITYThe The rebuilding of tlie Canterbury Jockey Clubs grandstand at Riccarton Christchurch Xew Zea ¬ land has not been proceeded with owing to the refusal of the government to grant a permit for the necessary material As soon as tlie authority 5s forthcoming a start will be made The cost will be over 250000 and tlie new toalizator building and machines will mean nearly another S125000 From May 1 1919 to April 30 this year the Canterbury Jockey Club gave 200000 in stakes and received 274595 from the totalizator but 145835 went to the government in various taxes Gate and stand receipts for the whole season wen only 75K0 so it will bo seen that without the totalizator it would be impossible for the club to approach its present liberality to own ¬ ers In stakes In entrance and acceptance fees contributed 34510 34510The The sporting world in Australia will be poorer by the death of one of its outstanding personalities In Phil Glcnister who died at Tattersalls Club in this city Juno 19 He fell dead at a table in the club Glenister was a notable figure in Aus ¬ tralian sport and though 83 years of age was active Gieuister was best known as the doyen of Aus ¬ tralian betting commissioners and his many expe ¬ riences of huge wins and loses would fill volumes He was associated with perhaps fho biggest com ¬ missions ever launched on tlio Australian turf and in iS01 backed Revenue in tlie Melbourne Cup for forMr Mr Macdonald for 200000 Another big lis lissiou siou he executed was for Carbines owner in 1891 and when that great horse won Mr Gieuister paid his owner something like 1COOOI Glenister was a member of Tatts Club for fiftythree years and for the last twentynine consecutive years a com mitteeman and was responsible in no small meas ¬ ure for the popularity and success that that club has The deceased sportsman raced many horses one of tlie best being AVarrior with which he wen tlie Sydney Cup in 1873 1873Horse Horse prices about chosen individuals run as high here as in other Englishspeaking lands F S Huston was recently asked to put a price on Amythas He quoted 50000 which stopped busi ¬ ness Had tlie deal taken place Amythas would have gone to India for a native owner who wanted a cup horse Amythas is a notable longdistance per I former and would have been a tough nut to crack in the Indian Cup races even for the re cently imported English horses that have been ac ¬ quired for such events by the native sportsmen sportsmenTraining Training fees in Australia anil Xew Zealand liave gone up ICO per cent iu tlie last year It is no wonder Fodder has been more than three and onehalf times in price in the period and is still going up upThe The English cup horse Lucknow which has not brought the price at which he is held 40000 will soon be returned to England for a stock horse He is owned by the Australian raciuj firm in Eng ¬ land Robinson Clark ClarkOld Old Scoutmaster had two runs at AVallsend on Saturday He was unplaced in the June Handicap one and a quarter miles and later in the day fared similarly in tlie Final Handicap Tlio horse has hail a notable career which is about at its I end The old warrior i eleven years of age and was a router of high degree in his day Ip to 191 he held the record for one and threequarters miles 45 made at Raiidwick October 9 1915 1915KAXGAROO KAXGAROO
