CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 225, 23 September 1938, Page 14

CHAMPIONSHIPS.

INTER-DOMINION TESTS. STAKE-MONEY, £3500. Stakes to the value of £3500 will be given for the Inter-Dominion Championships at Launceston, Tasmania, on December 31. January 3, 5 and 7 next. A total of £1900 will be given for the championship events, provision beinjr made for two heats over distances of one mile and a quarter, one mile and a half, and two miles, each heat being of £150, and a final of £1000 will Le held on January 7 over one mile and a half. The points system will be used in deciding the horses eligible for the final. A consolation race of £150 on the final day, over one mile arid a half, for horses who competed in the heats over each distance, and who did not gain first, second or third in the final, will provide something additional for disappointed owners. Nomination fees have been kept as low as possible, and for most of the events acceptance is at scale; this will find favour with owners. Some of the events have been named in honour of sportsmen who helped to put trotting "on the map." The Doolan Handicap is named after the late Mr. W. T. Doolan, for some years secretary of the Northern Tasmanian Trotting Association, whilst